Cloudbreak Energy partnered with a team of graduate students from the University of Colorado Boulder’s Masters of the Environment (MENV) program on a capstone project examining how community solar can deliver deeper, more durable benefits to the Colorado communities that host it. The team brought fresh research and independent analysis to questions Cloudbreak works on every day, and Cloudbreak provided project data, site access and mentorship. Partnerships like this one help build the next generation of clean energy practitioners while sharpening our own thinking.