We’re thrilled to announce we’ve helped over 500 of your fellow Vermonters join our innovative Community Solar (CSA) program. As we celebrate the first anniversary of the CSA program, the milestone was highlighted in today’s Burlington Free Press cover story Community Solar: Power from the sun for everyone.
“It was a huge discovery we made last year,” said SunCommon spokeswoman Emily McManamy. “A bulk of our customers couldn’t go solar with us for a whole host of reasons from wrong roof orientation to finances. Some folks just don’t want rooftop solar on their own homes, but want to support the growth of solar in Vermont. We realized we could gather a group of people together with a common interest in solar.”
Nationwide, said McManamy, only about 15 percent of households can host rooftop solar arrays. As a result, according to GTM Research’s 2015 U.S. Solar Market Insight Report, “out of a total of over 100 million households in the U.S., more than 80 million are left out of the solar market today.”
Community solar arrays are SunCommon’s way of addressing that shortfall in Vermont. Since its launch one year ago, the CSA program has signed up more than 500 customers. Under the CSA program, Green Mountain Power customers sign up to support the array, receiving solar credits on their utility bills at a 7 percent discount from their normal rate for electricity. For every $100 they would normally spend, they’ll now spend $93 for the same power as part of the community solar array.
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