Fifteen jurisdictions, chosen deliberately.

California

The most sophisticated power market in the country and the most expensive on the mainland, and since the Net Billing Tariff replaced net metering, the one where exporting to the grid pays least. That change made storage the rational half of every system: shave the demand charge, hold the afternoon production for the evening peak, sell the utility nothing at its price. California rewards developers who read tariff sheets the way lawyers read contracts. We are that kind of developer, and we live here.

Puerto Rico

Nowhere under the American flag is the case for solar and storage less theoretical. Power is expensive, the grid changes operators more often than governors, and every hurricane season restates the argument in language the board understands. Net metering survives on the island by statute for years yet, which makes the arithmetic generous while it lasts. We develop across commercial, industrial and utility scale here and treat Puerto Rico as a first market rather than a footnote to a mainland portfolio.

U.S. Virgin Islands

Retail rates that rival Hawaii's, a utility that has lived on diesel for a century, and a hurricane record that needs no footnote. On St. Thomas and St. Croix a paired system is not a sustainability gesture; it is the difference between trading through the storm and closing for the season. The regulator is small and the process is personal, which suits a firm that answers its own telephone.

Hawaii

The highest retail electricity rates of any state, and a grid that cannot import a kilowatt-hour from a neighbor. The state has bound itself to 100 percent renewable generation, and the Community-Based Renewable Energy program lets subscribers share a project they could never host. Interconnection here is governed by circuit-level hosting limits rather than goodwill, and the developer who has not studied the circuit map is a tourist.

District of Columbia

The most lucrative solar market in the country per installed watt, for one reason: the District's solar renewable energy credits trade at prices the rest of the country regards as a misprint, sustained by a solar carve-out the utility cannot meet without buying them. Add community renewable energy facilities that credit subscribers across Pepco's territory, and a rooftop in Anacostia earns what an acre earns elsewhere. The catch is that the District is eleven miles across and everyone knows it.

Maryland

The community solar program graduated from pilot to permanent in 2023 and gained consolidated billing, which means subscribers see their credit on the utility bill rather than on a second invoice they never open. Layer Maryland SRECs on top and the state offers two revenue lines on one array. Farmland near Delmarva and BGE distribution wires, and roofs anywhere in the corridor, are the assets we lease.

Delaware

A small state that legislated community solar in 2021 and runs a utility-administered SREC procurement in Delmarva territory, which gives a project a long-term credit price instead of a spot market's mood. The market is thin enough that the serious counterparties know one another by first name, and a parcel that clears the interconnection study is worth a great deal to the few who can build on it.

New Jersey

The Community Solar Energy Program is permanent, and the Successor Solar Incentive pays a fixed dollar figure per megawatt-hour for fifteen years, which is the kind of certainty a bank can lend against. The state has strong views about siting: it wants rooftops, canopies, landfills and brownfields, and looks coldly on farmland. A warehouse roof off the Turnpike is, in New Jersey, a better asset than fifty acres in Hunterdon County, and we price it accordingly.

New York

The largest community solar market in the country by a wide margin, paid under the Value of Distributed Energy Resources stack, which prices a kilowatt-hour by where and when it is produced rather than by a flat retail rate. Read correctly, the stack tells you which substation to build beside. NY-Sun incentives fill the gap the tariff leaves. Upstate ground and downstate roofs are different businesses with the same regulator, and we do both.

Massachusetts

The SMART program pays a declining-block tariff with adders for storage, for low-income subscribers and for community projects, and its latest iteration favors the very configurations we build. Retail rates in the Commonwealth are high enough that the economics forgive a great deal; the interconnection queues in National Grid territory forgive nothing. We lease roofs, parking and land across the Commonwealth and size for the adders that matter.

Connecticut

The Shared Clean Energy Facility program awards twenty-year tariffs by competitive solicitation, and the Non-Residential Renewable Energy Solutions program does the same for C&I systems behind the meter. Winning a solicitation is a matter of siting, price and paperwork done exactly right, in that order.

New Hampshire

A small market with high rates and a group net metering statute that lets one project credit a group of host customers, with a higher cap for municipal hosts. Eversource territory is the game. The state has never had a subsidy boom and so has never had a subsidy hangover; the projects that work here work on the tariff.

Maine

The 2019 expansion of Net Energy Billing produced the fastest community solar boom in New England and, four years later, the reforms that ended it for new projects. What remains is a successor program, high retail rates in Central Maine Power territory, and a great deal of grandfathered capacity. We know which category a given parcel falls into before the landowner does.

Illinois

Illinois Shines, the state's Adjustable Block Program, buys fifteen- and twenty-year REC contracts at published prices, and the Climate and Equitable Jobs Act of 2021 multiplied its budget. The result is the most orderly community solar market in the Midwest: blocks open, projects apply, contracts issue. Flat ground near a ComEd or Ameren substation in this state is now worth more under panels than under corn, and the farmer keeps the rent either way.

Minnesota

Xcel's Community Solar Garden program, born in 2013, was the largest in the country before most states had one. The 2023 reform moved it to the Department of Commerce, raised the size cap and put low-income subscribers first, and the queue reset with it. Minnesota winters are hard on people and kind to panels. Farmland near an Xcel feeder, leased long at fixed rent with grazing continuing beneath the array, is the asset.