Community solar gives households, renters, and businesses the opportunity to benefit from solar energy without installing panels on their own property. Participants subscribe to a local solar project and receive credits on their electricity bills for the energy the project generates.

For many families, community solar provides a simple way to lower monthly electricity costs while expanding access to clean, locally generated energy. By making solar available to more people, community solar helps states meet clean energy goals while delivering direct financial benefits to residents.

Reliable electricity is essential to attracting new businesses, supporting industrial growth, and creating jobs. As electricity demand increases, access to power is becoming an increasingly important factor in economic development.

Distributed energy helps communities expand local electricity generation and grid capacity more quickly by leveraging existing commercial properties. Faster access to energy infrastructure can help support business expansion, manufacturing, logistics, data centers, and other industries that depend on reliable power.

Commercial rooftop solar generates electricity close to where it is consumed, reducing the need to deliver power over long distances. This local generation helps diversify energy resources, improve grid resilience, and reduce pressure on existing transmission infrastructure.

When paired with battery storage, distributed energy can also provide dispatchable capacity that helps utilities manage periods of high demand and improve overall system reliability.

Electricity demand is growing faster than new energy infrastructure can be built. Policymakers are increasingly looking for solutions that can expand electricity supply, strengthen grid reliability, and support economic growth without placing unnecessary burdens on ratepayers.

Distributed energy offers one pathway to meeting these goals by utilizing existing commercial real estate to add new generation and storage more quickly than many traditional infrastructure projects.

Meeting growing electricity demand will require a combination of new generation, transmission, storage, and distributed energy resources.

Commercial rooftop solar and battery storage can often be deployed more quickly than large greenfield projects because they leverage existing buildings, existing utility infrastructure, and previously developed land. By incorporating distributed energy into long-term planning, states can diversify their energy portfolios while accelerating new electricity supply.

Commercial real estate represents one of the nation's largest untapped energy resources. Warehouses, distribution centers, manufacturing facilities, retail centers, office buildings, and other commercial properties offer millions of square feet of rooftop space that can support distributed solar and battery storage.

Rather than viewing these properties solely as buildings, they can be viewed as platforms for new energy infrastructure that helps utilities serve growing electricity demand while creating new revenue opportunities for property owners.

Solar Landscape partners with utilities, policymakers, municipalities, and community stakeholders to develop distributed energy projects that align with local energy goals and economic priorities.

The company works collaboratively throughout project development to support responsible siting, regulatory compliance, community engagement, and long-term energy planning while helping expand access to reliable electricity.

Distributed energy can help reduce electricity costs in several ways. Community solar programs provide participating households with direct savings on their utility bills, while local generation can reduce system costs by producing electricity closer to where it is used.

Although electricity prices are influenced by many factors, distributed energy helps diversify energy resources and can contribute to a more resilient and efficient electric system over time.