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Community Energy Systems

Strategic partnerships with local organizations to support clean energy endeavors.

Our Community Energy Systems program awards in-kind support for projects that offer significant community benefits and advance our vision of a responsible transition to a clean energy future.

Qualifying projects may involve renewable energy generation, microgrids to increase resiliency, solar paired with storage to increase demand flexibility, and large EV charging stations in multi-family residential areas to increase smart electrification.

The following criteria are considered when evaluating projects:

Community Benefits:
  • Area of refuge
  • Energy resilience
  • Workforce housing
  • Energy education
  • Environmental causes
  • General HCE Member Benefit
Business Benefits:
  • Contributes to our journey to 100% clean energy by developing new resources.
  • Projects that have controllable resources to help us manage system peak conditions and balance our renewable energy supply.
  • Projects that produce an economic benefit to HCE by generating revenue (fuel switching, EV infrastructure)

Have a project that may qualify? Fill out the form below to get started and a member of our Community Energy Systems team will be in touch.

Example Community Energy Systems Projects

Town of Snowmass Village

  • Public EV Fast Charging Infrastructure

Pitkin County

  • Public EV Fast Charging Infrastructure

Town of Basalt

  • Public EV Fast Charging Infrastructure

Freedom Park Edwards

  • All-electric workforce housing, with county commercial space and EV charging

English in Action 

  • New all-electric facility in Basalt, the Center for Communications

Gypsum Early Learning Center

  • All-electric workforce housing with EV charging

Town of Avon Public Works Campus

  • All-electric garage facility for the town, including EV chargers, plus solar with battery energy storage

Timber Ridge Vail

  • Deed-restricted, all-electric housing units for local workforce

West End Edwards

  • All-electric multi-family housing complex, with 75% deed restricted units, solar, and EV charging for residents

Aspen Valley Hospital

  • Housing for “on-call” staff with heat pumps for heating and cooling, plus EV charging