The Ultimate Intro to Community Solar

My name is Dakota Malone. I co founded Community Solar Authority. We've used Community Solar to unlock access to $22 million in future electricity savings for our clients. And we make these videos as a way to explain our business in an easy to digest way. We help municipalities, investors, big businesses, corporations and large users of electricity access the Community Solar program Turnkey. So they can focus on their mission, but also access exclusive sustainability strategies. All the education you need to know about Community Solar in one place. I want you to think about Community Solar like a coupon for electricity costs. Let me tell you a quick story about Mark Cuban. Man is a billionaire, so you can love him or hate him, but I want to tell you a quick story about how he buys toothpaste. You might think this guy's mega rich. Why would he care about bulk purchasing toothpaste, which is what he does every single year? And the answer is because he can get it with a coupon attached. So ultimately, if you have the opportunity to apply a coupon and save money, you take it. And if it's easy and seamless, of course you're going to apply it every single time. Take this philosophy and think about Community Solar in the same exact way. Community Solar is state level legislation that allows you to participate in an available solar project and in exchange for supporting cleaning the energy grid, you receive bill credits or a coupon designed to actually lower energy costs. Again, subscribing to a community solar project is providing bill credits back to your utility account and essentially giving you a 5 to 10% discount automatically applied to your costs every single month. It's like taking your electricity bill through a checkout line. The utility asks you if you have any coupons you want to apply. They stamp a 5 to 10% discount on the utility bill and then you're automatically paying less. This, this is how we use Community Solar to improve operating profit and enhance business sustainability on a $0 investment. Without installing solar, we work with large users of electricity and for us, our average client is accessing $75,000 a year, every single year, using a community solar rollout. The problem is that community Solar is exclusive when it comes to large users of electricity. There's only so many solar projects being built in a current utility territory and every corporation, big business wants to access community Solar because they're ultimately available incentives that allow that person to save money while displaying environmental stewardship. What you need to get access to Community Solar are systems, expertise and guidance. And that's exactly where Community Solar Authority comes in. You can use our predictable savings Available projects and all of our expertise combined over the last half decade so that you can enjoy set it and forget it savings and again while maintaining focus on whatever's most important for your organization. Next, I want to talk about our Community Solar fastpass. A while back, Disney had a program called their Disney FastPass where you could enjoy all of the magic in Disney in record time. I remember the first time I went to Disneyland. It was hot, the park was packed with people and the lines were extremely long. But because we had a FastPass, we got to go straight to the front of the line and again enjoy all the rides we wanted to ride and and essentially capture the value and the magic of Disney without these long waits. We modeled our Community Solar fastpass off of the same exact idea where if you want community solar, AKA improved operating profit and enhanced sustainability and you want to capture those available incentives, you work with us and we bring you right to the front of the line so you can get that value faster than anybody else in the market. Working with community Solar authority allows you to get VIP access to community solar and access projects in record time and also maximize the amount of savings you get using community solar. If you're trying to do community solar by yourself or with another company, that's the equivalent of being trapped in these long lines at Disney where you can see the value. And it all sounds great, but how long are you actually waiting to get access to that value? And on top of that, most community solar companies only have access to a small handful of projects. So this means that if you, if you are a giant electricity user and you need many, many solar farms to save the most money, but you can only get access to one or two, that means you're only scratching the surface of the potential of community solar and essentially not drawing all the value that you can out of the program. We leverage our access to working directly with some of the most significant community solar developers in the space, along with their financiers, to get you access to all of the projects that you need to to maximize your savings. Ultimately, our Community Solar fastpass is all about delivering turnkey access to community Solar in under 90 days, making sure that you get slid straight to the front of the line and first into the next available project, that's going to bring you the savings that you want. My last point here is talking about a top down strategy when it comes to community solar rollouts. We had a corporate client come to us that told us they had already started a community solar rollout, but it only covered about 10% of their total market share. In this specific market, they thought that 10% was all that was available, but in reality it was all that was available to the company they were working with. It took us one conversation with them for them to realize that we were the real deal, we knew what we were talking about and we were able to come back and bring a 400 location rollout of community Solar to their market, which allowed for much larger energy savings. Again, because we have so much access to community solar pipelines, we take this top down approach and enroll as much capacity as possible, ultimately allowing you to save as much as possible. Working with us means three big factors. Get our expertise, you get turnkey delivery and you get the entire opportunity handled under one roof. Meaning you could go and try to do community solar yourself or with another smaller company, have multiple conversations with multiple vendors, send multiple vendors all of your utility information, then try to figure out who's got what. How is it going to serve you the best? Which vendor is going to treat you the best? And by the time all that's done, you have wasted so much time, energy and resources just to not get a maximized community solar rollout. Or you could work with us, have it all done for you and get the peace of mind knowing it was handled with expert care. My synergy is such a powerful concept and I will never stop talking about it because you can essentially use our resources for free and get the value that you want without any effort. In short, Community Solar is one of the most shovel ready US clean energy programs in the us. Large users of electricity can access community solar on a zero dollar investment without having to install anything on site and benefit from improved operating profit and enhanced sustainability practices. There's only so many solar projects being built in a given market every single year and so you're going to need an expert that knows exactly how to maximize and get access to that capacity so that you can be the organization to benefit. If you're a large user of electricity seeking to get more information on a community solar rollout, you can book a complimentary strategy call@communitysolarauthority.com and we would host a conversation about if we're able to help you. If you have any additional questions, please connect with me on LinkedIn@LinkedIn.com indecotamillone I appreciate you guys tuning into these YouTube videos and I will catch you on the next episode. D.