Direct Lobbying Transparency
| Overall Assessment | Comment | Score |
|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive | Sunrun provides an extensive and detailed picture of its climate-policy advocacy. It names multiple specific measures it has worked on, including the Low-Income Housing Renewable Energy Credit, the Solar on Multifamily Affordable Housing (SOMAH) program, Connecticut’s retail net-metering successor program approved by PURA, the Illinois Climate and Equitable Jobs Act, the extension of the federal 30 % solar Investment Tax Credit, and its technical collaboration with the U.S. Department of Energy on SolarAPP+, clearly identifying the legislation, jurisdiction and focus of each engagement. The company also describes how it undertakes this advocacy, noting direct work with “clean energy advocacy groups, policymakers, and individual advocates,” engagement with “state utility commissions and legislatures,” a specific “collaboration with the Arizona Corporation Commission to eliminate a grid access fee,” and the provision of “technical expertise” to Puerto Rico’s government on Virtual Power Plant proposals, thereby revealing multiple mechanisms and their concrete policymaking targets. Finally, Sunrun is explicit about what it wants those policies to achieve: it seeks to “expand access to rooftop solar, battery storage, and other electrification technologies,” aims to bring 2.5 million low-income households renewable energy over 10 years and 500 MW of low-income solar by 2030, advocates “fair compensation for home solar and battery storage,” and backed a ten-year extension of the 30 % ITC. By clearly identifying the policies, the methods and the concrete outcomes it pursues, the company demonstrates a comprehensive level of transparency around its climate-related lobbying. | 4 |