The Town of Southampton, New York, is building on its first-mover status with the release of an RFP for the first community distributed generation (CDG) solar project on Long Island, an opportunity made available through its community choice aggregation (CCA) program.

A growing number of Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, Amazon, Google and Walmart have been making headlines with announcements of hitting major renewable energy targets. As pressure to reduce carbon emissions escalates in the face of climate change, this expanding group of corporates is pushing towards "100 percent renewables" with procurements of green energy via solar, wind, and hybrid projects.