Community solar is a fast-growing sector in the U.S. that expands access to solar for customers who don’t have a suitable rooftop or the financial resources to install rooftop residential solar. It is typically a subscription service where customers subscribe to a portion of off-site solar panels and receive a credit on their electric bill for the electricity generated by the solar asset.
Community solar projects are smaller than utility-scale projects and are often developed on covered landfills, brownfields, highway rights-of-way, and other developed land. This more decentralized solar project design can help ease grid bottlenecks, reduce land development, and lower high power transmission costs compared to centralized utility-scale designs.
