Maryland Supporting Lease and Buy Options Through Incentives
Homeowners in Maryland have several reasons to be optimistic about residential solar costs over the next year or two, as the state yet again ramps up its efforts to make PV more affordable. From our...
View ArticleIs Solar Leasing More Expensive Than Necessary?
Before solar leasing came along, installing PV on a residential rooftop was expensive. The approach to achieving the allusive breaking point of “grid parity”, or when solar PV is the same cost or...
View ArticleA Better Way to Finance Solar PV for Homeowners
I wanted to take a moment and relay a well-researched article posted on ThinkProgress, written by Jesse Morris from the reputable Rocky Mountain Institute. He and some of his colleagues have recently...
View ArticleWhile popularity of solar leases grows, alternatives emerge
With some estimates as high as 75% of new solar installs financed through 3rd party ownership, it has become clear that the solar lease is quickly becoming the most popular way to pay for a solar...
View ArticleComparing solar leases to a solar loan
As we mentioned in our previous post, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) offer Property Loan Insurance to approved lenders in a program known...
View ArticleDo solar leases deter potential home buyers?
A recent Bloomberg article suggests some issues that customers have had with selling homes that have solar lease contracts attached to them. While it has been documented that solar panels have...
View ArticleNREL: Banking on Solar and working to bring solar financing rates down
The U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), recently announced a Banking in Solar working group to address the challenges that homeowners face getting loans for rooftop...
View ArticleVideo: Buy or Lease solar panels?
We recently updated our videos page, a place where we’ll aggregate some of our favorite informative videos. Here’s another one: Buy or lease solar panels? The post Video: Buy or Lease solar panels?...
View ArticleThe California Roots of PACE Financing
The ECOreport recently published an excellent story on the rise, fall and rise again of PACE programs. Property-assessed-clean-energy or PACE got it’s start in Berkeley, California when the then...
View ArticleSolarCity gets into the solar loan business
As we’ve written about in the past, improved loan options will eventually win out over the solar leases that have become popular in the past few years. SolarCity recently announced that they are...
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