Solar Company Answers the Question : What Is Community Solar.

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Solar Company Answers the Question What Is
Community Solar?
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A solar technologies continue to evolve and
advance, it allows for a variety of creative and
new ways to apply the technology for homes,
businesses, and communities.
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One of the new concepts that is quickly growing
in interest and will become a mainstay in the
solar power industry in the coming years is
called Community Solar.
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Community Solar is where a community shares the
solar panels used to generate electricity for
homes. You may have also heard of Community Solar
before as it is also been called solar gardens,
solar farms, and shared solar plants.
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This term can be used to describe both
community-sponsored installations, as well as
those owned by third-parties.
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What Is the Benefit of Community Solar? The
primary benefit of Community Solar is it allows
all member of the community to enjoy the benefits
of solar power.
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For whatever reasons, if they are unable to
install solar panels on their home or decide they
do not want to, people can still participate in
the communitys solar farm to help offset their
energy costs.
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In addition, for people, who might not own their
own their home, investing into a Community Solar
project still allows them to take advantage of
solar power.
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Another benefit of a shared solar garden is all
community members equally split the costs of
installation. Installations costs can be less,
per person, compared to the costs of an
individual solar installation on a single home.
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How Are Energy Credits Distributed? Since
Community Solar is a fairly new concept, there
are different models on how energy credits should
be distributed.
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One of the more generalized models allows
community members to receive credits based upon
an equal distribution directly related to the
amount of power generated from the communitys
solar farm.
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How Is Community Solar Different from Other Solar
Energy Options? People sometimes confuse
Community Solar as being the same as Green
Power offered by energy providers.
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Green Power is not the same thing. Rather, it is
where the energy provider purchases electricity
from solar power plants or invests the money into
building their own solar power plants.
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People have to pay for this option and it does
not always translate into reduced energy bills.
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Another form of solar is called Group Solar
Purchasing. This type of solar power solution is
where a solar panel installation company offers
discounted group rates for a community for
individual solar installations on separate homes.
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Unlike a community solar farm, where all members
of the community benefit, only those households
which took advantage of the discounted
installations benefit.
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A third type of solar energy option is called
Solar Power Investment. This option allows
people to invest in solar power projects with an
anticipated return on their investment, much like
purchasing stocks or bonds.
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As interest grows in Community Solar, so too will
the number of communities taking advantage of
this new option for generating solar power.
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To learn more about solar power options for your
home, please feel free to contact Solar Brokers
Canada at 1-800-332-9395 today!   Source-
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