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Prioritizing middle-market energy development opportunities like community solar opens up straightforward project financing and new revenue streams for commercial property owners and solar project stakeholders. Community Solar Past, Present, and Future Community-scale solar, commonly referred to as community solar, was pioneered more than a decade ago. Today, the community solar model is market-tested, well-established, and positioned…

The commercial market has been much slower to initiate solar projects than the residential sector, partly due to financial barriers and partly due to other nuances in commercial real estate. Fortunately, innovative data technologies and a broad variety of new financing solutions are making it much quicker and easier to deploy solar at scale across…

American businesses and households are experiencing record electricity prices this year as costs for natural gas and coal surge relentlessly. From the pandemic fallout, natural disasters, Russia’s war in Ukraine and more, global economic turbulence has caused a global energy crisis. Meanwhile, demand for electricity in the U.S. continues to increase after unusual heat waves…

Environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting has become top-of-mind for corporate leaders, investors and stakeholders as global interest in sustainability and energy equity mounts. As leading corporations increasingly turn their attention toward greater ESG compliance, many that own their building(s) are reaping the multiple benefits of sustainability property improvements. First, what are the components of ESG? Environmental: The…

Despite the rising popularity of solar in the residential market, commercial and industrial real estate owners have remained slow to deploy solar on their properties. For the majority of commercial leases, the landlord owns the building, but the tenant pays the electric bill. This problem of “split incentives” – where the economic benefit of solar goes to…