Buying group enters into commercial space clean energy through Solar @ Work programme developed by the San Francisco Department of the environment to ensure greater accessibility of solar panels for business owners. Companies have three options to get solar panels through the programme: procurement, leasing and credit. Federal grant covering 30% of the cost of installation is also on offer.
Solar Xpert@work hoped to sign on at least 20 owners in the area of the San Francisco buildings by the end of the year, that can be translated as 2 megawatts of solar energy.
While the program is innovative in simplifying solar commercial buildings, this is not the first harness group purchasing power for solar. 1Bog has a similar model for solar installations, at home, and SolarMosaic represents a crowdfunding platform for attraction of the Sun for public buildings such as schools and churches.
Group buying model can discount panels at 10-15% and reduce the cost of administrative fees at 75%. It doesn't sound like steal group buying consumer standards, but considering the price of solar panels, it can add up to significant savings. The city said, is the main obstacle to the entry into solar high upfront cost of solar most commercial property owners.
San Mateo SolarCity has won the tender to provide dashboards, and the participating enterprises are expected to pay less for Sun than what they pay for power from the grid. Currently, less than the four-story commercial buildings have the right to participate in the program. If the pilot is successful, this could be extended to other areas of the country, or even global level.
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