Will Utilities Price Community Solar Subscriptions Fairly?

Renewable Energy World: Utility-sponsored community solar gardens offer real benefits to the grid, especially when the utility has a say in where to site the project, because they can be sited where they are most needed, even closer to load on the grid than polluting natural gas plants.

Utilities are ideally positioned to expand community solar. Because of their regulated and guaranteed rate of return, the market sees that they are less risky investments. So they can generally borrow at lower rates than solar developers. And solar prices are becoming competitive with fossil energy at wholesale.

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