Solar Finance and Ownership Options

Dwayne Breger; Zara Dowling; River Strong; Alison Bates; Sara Farrar

doi:10.2172/2394646

Solar Finance and Ownership Options

Dwayne Breger, Zara Dowling, River Strong, Alison Bates, Sara Farrar (NREL Technical Monitor)

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Abstract

Communities facing specific solar project development opportunities or proactively planning their solar development strategies will need to have a basic understanding of solar financing and ownership options. How solar is financed and owned has large implications on how the solar project impacts local economic benefits, risk, and capital needs. This fact sheet provides a brief introduction to these considerations for local officials and community constituents to familiarize them with how local benefits and risks contrast across the basic ownership structures available.

Original language	American English
Publisher	National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL)
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.2172/2394646
State	Published - 2024

Bibliographical note

Work performed by University of Massachusetts Amherst, Amherst, Massachusetts and Colby College, Waterville, Maine

NREL Publication Number

NREL/SR-7A40-90081

Keywords

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

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