Community Planning for Solar: Understanding and Evaluating Solar Financing and Ownership Options

Dwayne Breger; Sara Farrar

doi:10.2172/2394645

Community Planning for Solar: Understanding and Evaluating Solar Financing and Ownership Options

Dwayne Breger, Sara Farrar (NREL Technical Monitor)

Accelerated Deployment and Decision Support

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Research output: NREL › Subcontract Report

Abstract

This guide is intended for town officials and constituents to provide a high-level understanding of how solar development can be owned and financed. The guide particularly highlights solar project cash flows of costs and benefits, how they accrue over time between local and non-local project participants, and how financial risk is appropriated.

Original language	American English
Publisher	National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Number of pages	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/2394645
State	Published - 2024

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Work performed by UMass Clean Energy Extension, Amherst, Massachusetts

NREL Publication Number

NREL/SR-7A40-90079

Keywords

action plan
clean energy extension
community planning
education
financing
Massachusetts
municipalities
outreach
ownership
PV siting
rural
SEIN
solar photovoltaics
toolkit
UMass

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