Commercial solar EPC since 2014
Kern County / Tulare County / Kings County / Fresno County
(661) 555-0183Shared generation
Not every business has a roof worth building on, or a load big enough to justify its own interconnection. A shared array gets several parties behind one well-sited system and one utility agreement.
The idea
A small packing operation with a 90 kW load does not justify its own ground-mount field, its own interconnection application or its own maintenance contract. Three of them together might, particularly if one of the three has land sitting idle.
The economics come from scale. Interconnection costs, metering, civil works, fencing, access roads and the O&M contract are all substantially cheaper per kilowatt at one megawatt than at three hundred kilowatts. Sharing one well-sited array beats three poorly sited ones.
The other driver is siting. In agriculture the party with the best land for solar is frequently not the party with the biggest electricity bill. A shared array separates those two questions, which is exactly what makes it useful here.
A host provides the site, the interconnection point and usually the land lease. A subscriber holds an allocation of the array's output and receives credits against their own utility account. One party can be both.
Who does what
Gets: lease income, usually its own allocation of output, and a use for ground that was producing nothing.
Gets: bill credits against its own account without owning land, a roof or an interconnection.
Getting one built
Interconnection capacity is the binding constraint. We screen candidate parcels against the utility hosting capacity map before anyone signs anything.
Every participating meter gets its interval data pulled. The array is sized to the aggregate, not to the land available.
Eligibility, allocation limits and credit mechanics vary by utility and customer class, and they change. This gets confirmed in writing before design.
Site lease, subscription terms, cost sharing, exit and reassignment, O&M obligation and end of life. Your lawyers, not ours.
Standard EPC delivery, with allocation metering and reporting configured so every participant can see their own share.
Answers
Not covered here? Our engineers answer directly, not through a call centre.
Ask a question(661) 555-0183Anyone with suitable land or roof and an interconnection point with capacity. In our territory that is usually a grower with a fallowed corner, a water district with basin margin land, or a co-op with a large packing shed roof.
Through the utility's own arrangement, not through private wires. Subscribers hold an allocation of the array's output and receive bill credits against their own accounts. Running a private line between properties is a different and much harder proposition.
Shared arrays in our territory generally start around 500 kW DC and run up to a few megawatts. Below that the fixed costs of interconnection, metering and administration are spread too thinly to be worth the complexity.
Not the engineering. It is the agreement: who pays for what, what happens when a subscriber leaves, how allocations are reassigned, who carries the O&M obligation and who owns the equipment at the end. We build the technical side and insist you get proper legal advice for the rest.
No. Community and shared solar rules in California have changed repeatedly and vary by utility and customer class. Confirm current programme terms before committing. Everything on this page is a sample for a demonstration site.
Those are the two halves of a shared array. Tell us which one you are and we will tell you whether the circuit can take it.
CSLB #1071482 (sample). Prevailing wage on public works. Engineers answer, not a call centre.
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