We Just Unlocked 1.5M+ In Future Savings w/ Community Solar.

How We’re Reshaping Sustainability Roadmaps with the Program

Dakota Malone
Community Solar Authority
3 min readJul 19, 2024

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Photo by Thomas Coker on Unsplash

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

Over the last six years, we’ve helped clients unlock access to $20M+ in future electricity savings with commercial solar incentives.

This week, we finalized our latest rollout for a client that finished with countersigned agreements on a community solar subscription.

This means they’ll effectively capture $100k+ in savings annually for years; compounding to over a million in energy savings.

Here’s why it deserves a place in your organization’s plans.

Sustainability Roadmaps

We work with municipalities, corporations, and big businesses.

Many have plans for enhanced sustainability, ESG reporting, and overall commitments that they would like to hit.

Some are further ahead than others, and many feel overwhelmed by the task of executing projects to advance their sustainability plans.

When we meet with our clients, virtually none of them have factored in community solar to improve different aspects of their plans.

We properly educate them to make sure that they understand it deserves a place in their roadmap:

  • it can lower electricity costs and promote business sustainability
  • it can help promote environmental stewardship
  • it can create a fund to execute more projects
  • it can build momentum for the roadmap
  • & much more

We also incorporate social aspects into our rollouts as well & offer sustainability workshops to touch on human & social sustainability too.

Funding Sustainability

Community Solar is an amazing program because it offers an infinite ROI for your organization.

On a $0 investment, without installing solar on-site, you can effectively capture available commercial solar incentives & help clean the energy grid.

Our latest client, one of the largest water authorities in the US, can use those $100k+ in savings per year as they see fit.

One option is to further sustainability projects including human, social, business, & environmental initiatives.

If they had a CapEx project every year dedicated to enhancing resiliency, then they would have that “downpayment” to invest into 10x efficiency & sustainability over the next decade ONLY using savings they created from community solar.

This is the power of efficiency & using it to create a more sustainable business model.

Conclusion

We deliver turnkey access to the community solar program.

It is a simple way for our clients to make progress on their sustainability roadmaps- even if they don’t have one.

It creates savings from available incentives, we deliver our work in ~90 days, and it requires virtually no effort on behalf of our clients.

This idea of a more efficient organization is a vision we want to inspire our clients with because community solar is just a single step towards sustainability.

The reality is that there is always more work to be done, and savings from the program can help fund more projects to execute and bring to life.

Thinking about accessing the community solar program for yourself?

You can get a complimentary strategy call to see if we’re a good fit to perform your rollout turnkey.

Visit communitysolarauthority.com to get started.

Thanks for reading! Questions? dmalone@communitysolarauthority.com

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Dakota Malone
Community Solar Authority

Sustainability Entrepreneur | Documenting Life Thriving After Five Heart Surgeries