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“We begin this Solar Future Studies report with a review of the market and regulatory barriers to low-income solar access and affordability, and we summarize current solutions to those challenges (Section 2). In Section 3, we model future low-income on-site solar adoption, using the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s (NREL’s) dGen model. We expand existing dGen capabilities by creating new agent types by income class, building type (single-family and multifamily), and tenure (renter and owner). […]”