Anyone can be a community solar subscriber if there’s a solar farm with availability in your utility area.
Community solar lets anyone with an electric bill — renters included — get a discount each month by supporting a local solar farm. Nothing changes about how your power arrives.
Neighborhood Sun’s community solar subscribers have saved more than $15 Million on their electricity bills by choosing to support clean, local energy.
When you subscribe to community solar, we connect you with a local solar farm in your community so you can get a designated share of the clean energy it produces (based on your average monthly energy usage). Enrollment is free online. All you need is a zipcode and a sample utility bill.
As a subscriber, your share of energy generated by a local solar farm is fed into the shared electric grid — the same grid your home already draws from. You see solar credits appear on your bill with a discount applied, reducing the amount owed to your utility.
By participating in a community solar farm, you are playing a role in accelerating your community’s transition to clean energy. A new nationwide analysis of economic impact reports from across the country finds that a typical 5-megawatt community solar project—the average and most efficient size—generates $14 million in local economic activity and supports nearly 100 jobs.
If you pay an electric bill, you can take advantage of a local community solar project and save on energy costs each month. You benefit by reducing utility costs while the planet benefits from a greener grid.
Subscribers save between 5%-30% on the power generated by their share of a community solar farm. This model allows people of all income levels to enjoy the financial and health benefits of renewable energy, without any installations, additional costs, or homeownership requirements.
As a subscriber, your electricity payments support clean energy generated by your community & for your community. Your subscription helps to divert fossil fuels from the electric grid, preventing greenhouse gas emissions that worsen the impacts of climate change.
Supporting community solar encourages widespread and equitable access to clean energy. Reduced fossil-fuel-dependence improves air quality, and your solar savings are reinvested back into your community.
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As a Certified B Corp and Public Benefit Corporation, we’re here to use business as a force for good. Do you have a healthy level of skepticism toward corporations? Good. We think everyone should. That’s why we share an annual impact report each year. Read our 2023 Impact Report to see us walk the talk for yourself.
In 2016, Neighborhood Sun set out to disrupt the broken utility industry that profits off pollution while distributing the health and financial costs to the customers it supposedly serves. Instead, Neighborhood Sun leverages collective action, empowering communities through access to clean, affordable energy, one individual or business at a time. Learn more about our corporate values and explore a breakdown of our B Corp Score to better understand how we use business as a force for good.
Our dependence on fossil fuels is costing us more than just money (Spend a lot on gas lately?). We’re funding the fossil fuel industry at the cost of our health, our financial independence, and our futures. Climate change is about more than just “saving the polar bears.” It’s about people and the resources we desperately need, not only to thrive but even just to survive. Renewable energy offers us a future where we don’t have to choose between the right thing to do and the convenient thing. Shared renewables are cheaper, safer, and cleaner than fossil fuels, so what are you waiting for?
Rooftop solar isn’t an option for 80% of Americans, but community solar changes that by eliminating all the traditional barriers to solar adoption, such as upfront costs and housing requirements. Thanks to our community solar subscription model, anyone who pays an electric bill can now access discounted clean energy from a local solar farm. In addition to advocating for equitable energy policies, Neighborhood Sun provides additional discounts and financial support to low-income households through our S.H.A.R.E. (Solar Helps Advance Resident Equality) program and Neighbor Benefit Fund.
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