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Job creation: By meeting America’ s growing energy needs quickly, Solar Landscape is hiring and training the clean energy workforce of the future
meter installations, particularly on rooftops, offer a more scalable solar solution than traditional behind-the-meter projects. In this new market, Solar Landscape proved very successful; we captured a third of the available capacity in the state and continued to invest and expand in that space. We also moved into other markets, including Maryland, Illinois, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, New York, and Massachusetts, and have now leased over 150 million square feet of rooftop for solar. In 2024, we
Mark Schottinger secured $ 847 million in project financing, supporting roughly 200 projects, demonstrating the confidence in this model,” said Schottinger.“ The future pipeline is enormous as commercial and industrial real estate owners are eager to lease their rooftops for solar, presenting untapped opportunities to generate electricity for the grid,” he added.
Extended benefits
Solar Landscape’ s approach has revolutionized the pairing of commercial rooftops and America’ s energy grid by establishing a novel network of distributed generation sources.“ Behind-the-meter projects require working with building owners through power purchase agreements( PPAs), which involve the building tenant purchasing electricity from the solar system. However, managing PPAs can be complex, and we found that real estate owners prefer to focus on leasing space rather than managing energy matters,” Schottinger explained.“ The size of a behind-the-meter project is also limited by the electricity needs of each building. For example, a dry storage warehouse may only need to cover about 20 percent of its roof in solar to meet its energy needs. For these reasons, behind-themeter roof solar was not very scalable.”
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