There are a number of activities underway within the California legislature, California PUC, and at the top three power companies in order to enable solar energy farms in the 1-20MWp scale. Additionally, the California Renewable Energy Transmission Initiative reflects numerous other projects exceeding 100MWp. Commercial Solar Design understands that the mandatory 33% alternative energy generation mandate coming from the Governor of California has made this sort of Solar PV farm viable in the short-term and long-term. This article is dedicated to twenty MW solar projects using 140 or more acres.

A lot of solar farm development groups try to find the ideal piece of land and offer a solar land lease for the land. Plenty of land owners are not excited about selling but contemplate leasing. Upon close scrutiny the landowner discovers that the lease strategy is not so good.

A solar land lease decision ties up your land for 3 years and then if the venture is built an additional 25 years at a fixed price. As most utility rate contracts don't offer an escalator many solar land lease don't offer one either. The solar farm groups desire to improve their profits at the cost of the property owner. After 3 to 4 years the land owner tires of the lease yet is stuck for the remainder of Twenty years.

There exists a cutting edge program which deals with this challenge in a few ways as detailed within this outline.

The property owner participates directly together with Commercial Solar Design becoming a co-developer. Owner's participation incorporates a limited $550-775K to pay permitting, application costs as well as other costs. The majority of this expenditure is a power company down-payment of $20K/MW applied for. Example. 20MWp application involves $400K down-payment.

Probably the most important elements of the program could be the legal framework as well as specialized work required to compliment the earliest development work so a project can be shovel ready. By functioning together the land owner keeps expenses down but more importantly participates in the benefit from the project well over and above a simple lease fee.

If the project is close to receiving a power purchase agreement it's offered to investment groups that are positioned to invest however not operate the solar farm project. Such groups come in and do the hard work financially by providing the construction funds etc. The main element to any project is always to have the permitting to construct plus a power purchase agreement.

When the project funds the property owner will get his original capital outlay back 2x. The acreage lease is negotiated at a competitive rate plus the land owner will get an equity position in the project. The future equity position is of terrific value but could also be negotiated like a one-time net current value buyout.

An additional possibility for 20MWp solar farms includes the scenario in which the acreage is held by an individual or investor team who finance the complete project in house. Commercial Solar Design offers turnkey solutions from permitting to interconnection and recurring operations and maintenance.

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