Definitely agreed, but when it comes to commercial/large-scale solar creditworthiness of the user of the electricity is critical to getting any project financed.
It's a much safer investment to go community solar / feed-in tariff where you just get paid from the utility company or have an investment-grade credit buyer (like a corporation or municipality) than it is to go behind the meter and make a bet that the grocery store, movie theater, etc. is going to be in business for the next 25 years.
Solar developer here (not the company developing this project). We would love to put solar in every grocery store parking lot but the owners don't want it there, even if we offer them money. The always say it's because it'll block the view of the stores and the signage - which is a ridiculous notion. As if people will suddenly forget where Walmart is because they put solar in the parking lot.
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Definitely agreed, but when it comes to commercial/large-scale solar creditworthiness of the user of the electricity is critical to getting any project financed.
It's a much safer investment to go community solar / feed-in tariff where you just get paid from the utility company or have an investment-grade credit buyer (like a corporation or municipality) than it is to go behind the meter and make a bet that the grocery store, movie theater, etc. is going to be in business for the next 25 years.