Welcome to the Evanston Community Solar Reservation List
Support Evanston’s Climate Goals and Secure Guaranteed Savings with Community Solar
Residential and Small Commercial consumers located in the City of Evanston can capture the benefits of solar without any investment or installing any solar panels on your roof.
With the CS² Program, Evanston consumers can:
- Support new solar development in northern Illinois
- Save off ComEd energy supply costs with a guaranteed 20% savings off net metering credits
- Sign up for $0 cost
- Stay with your current utility
- No termination fees

Large scale* community solar gardens are developed at off-site locations by private developers to generate clean, carbon-free electricity.
* Maximum of 2,000 kW’s of capacity per site.
No solar rooftop panels are required on your residence.
The community solar garden generates clean, carbon-free electricity and supplies it to the utility’s power grid for delivery to its distribution customers including homes, schools and business.
You enroll as a subscriber to the community solar facility, and you receive a net metering credit on your monthly utility electricity invoice for your portion of the solar power generated each calendar month. MC Squared Energy Services, LLC. (mc²) bills you separately for 80% of the net metering credit you receive, and therefore you retain 20% as your monthly savings! There are no other fees involved – it’s that simple to support solar generating resources in Illinois and receive a guaranteed savings for participating.
Signing up for Community Solar is Easy and Costs Nothing
There is no cost or obligation to put your name on the CS² Program Reservation List using the form below. Once you’ve submitted your information, the CS² Program Administrator – MC Squared Energy Services, LLC – will review your account for the following:
- Ensure that your account qualifies under ComEd’s rules.
- Identify the Subscription size that is right for your account.
MC Squared Energy Services, LLC will inform you by email once your account has been confirmed, and again when a community solar farm that is participating in the CS² Program is ready to commence operations. At that time, you may choose to complete the enrollment process and start receiving your net metering credits.
FAQs
Overview of Community Solar Savings Program
What is Community Solar
What is the Illinois Future Energy Jobs Act (FEJA)?
What are the benefits of Community Solar?
Is Community Solar available now?
Where are the solar projects located?
Eligibility and Enrollment Information
When will the program start?
What do you mean that solar subscriptions will be first come-first serve?
What type of accounts are eligible for the Community Solar Program?
What if I am with a retail supplier but want to return back to ComEd’s Bundled Supply Service in order to be eligible for the Community Solar Program?
Community Solar and Net Metering
Can you subscribe to the Community Solar Program as an existing Net Metering customer?
How does a Community Solar subscription work while on Net Metering in the ComEd area?
How does Community Solar work while on Net Metering in the Ameren area?
Will I save more by subscribing to Community Solar with behind the meter Net Metering?
Customers with behind the meter net metering resources served under ComEd’s basic fixed tariff supply service, Rate BES, will receive monthly community solar generation credits based on a higher value per kWh. The value of community solar generation credits under the ComEd fixed tariff supply rate has averaged between 5.5 and 6.0 cents per kWh over the last several years.
Because your net metering credit is based on electric supply service rate structure—and depending on your structure may include or exclude different items from other rates—the potential savings as a community solar subscriber in conjunction with the behind the meter net metering distributed resource will depend on your choice of supply services in addition to other factors (for example the price for the behind-the-meter or community generation, system production). The potential savings opportunity may be reduced (or even negative) if you are served under the ComEd hourly tariff supply service vs. the standard ComEd fixed tariff supply and the cost of the subscription from the community solar project owners is based on the value of the generation credits at the higher ComEd fixed tariff supply service value.
Billing and Service Information
How does the billing work?
How do I reconcile my bill?

MC Squared Energy Services, LLC (mc²) will separately bill you for 80% of the monthly community solar credit received, as the program subscription fee, using the credit/debit card that was provided during the secure on-line enrollment process. The net result is a savings of 20% of the solar generation credits to you!
The community solar subscription invoice from mc² will be sent after the monthly generation data from the community solar project is reconciled and validated with ComEd which means that there could be up to a three-month lag of the subscription fee invoice depending on your meter read cycle timing. To reconcile the net savings for a specific month, please refer to the billing period listed on your recent mc² subscription fee invoice and compare to the corresponding generation period listed on your ComEd electric utility bill. An example is shown below.


Questions?
Email us at
EvanstonCommunitySolar@mc2energyservices.com
Call us at
1-833-970-2796