How We Help CRE Improve ROI w/ Solar Leasing

Your Official, Bolt-On Commercial Solar Partner

Dakota Malone
Community Solar Authority
3 min readJul 24, 2024

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Our Guide is Available at communitysolarauthority.com

My name is Dakota Malone & I co-founded Community Solar Authority.

We help large users of electricity improve operating profit by unlocking access to available commercial solar incentives.

We’ve been consulting alongside the most significant solar developers in the US to help them streamline renewable deployment, and have recently started developing these projects ourselves.

The team we’ve built carries 10+ years of C&I solar development, with over 100+MW of pipeline built previously on commercial rooftops. We’re now leveraging our developer relationships, combining them with our development experience, and serving up maximized ROI to CRE owners.

This article dives further into the solar leasing opportunity.

Rooftop Solar: Your New Favorite Tenant

The roof is the most important piece of your CRE asset.

It protects everything underneath & inside your property, which generates your revenue.

It also, for most property owners, sits idle other than a few HVAC units humming along.

What if we could turn this liability into an asset? What if there was a way to protect your roof and use it to generate passive income? This is the power of solar leasing.

We are building a pipeline of projects across the country that allow us to leverage available commercial solar incentives to see the nationwide adoption of programs like community solar.

This starts with finding large, flat rooftops to host these solar farms, and we partner with CRE companies to do it. In exchange for leasing your rooftop for solar, you receive value-added passive income payments.

This is a fantastic way to benefit from clean energy, without having to pay for the system or purchase the power yourself.

No people, no toilets, predictable revenue, and a protected roof to boot.

For those with 150,000+ sq ft of new rooftop, you could benefit from this additional revenue for decades.

Our Solar Leasing Checklist

We have a guide that walks through the entire process of leasing your roof.

The process is straightforward, and also turnkey- all you do is submit your information on roof age, sq footage, address, etc.

We’ll be able to deliver initial feedback within seven days on whether or not we can assist you with solar leasing.

From there, we can perform a site-walk, & run the entire process for you front to back of turning your rooftop into passive income.

When you submit your information on our website, we can send our checklist guide to you automatically.

Conclusion

Your roof is the most important piece to your property yet also the most underutilized.

Solar leasing can provide a simple way to improve the ROI of your property while also protecting your roof.

Think this may be a strategy worth looking into?

You can visit communitysolarauthority.com today and get started by submitting your information.

Thanks for reading! Questions? dmalone@communitysolarauthority.com

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Dakota Malone
Community Solar Authority

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