Locally produced clean energy has a big impact if it is locally owned. The 3rd party ownership model traditionally pulls money out of the local economy but a Community Virtual Solar Garden keeps the money in the local community.

1. MyVirtualSolar.com
Community Virtual Solar Gardens
Not Just a Solar Project…but Economic Development

2. Subscriber Based Community Solar
Residents and small businesses pay an upfront fee to purchase
solar panels, or their production value, in a locally sited, common
solar array for the purpose of choosing renewable energy and
reducing/eliminating their own monthly electric bill… CGE’s
Community Virtual Solar Garden program.
Types of Community Solar

3. Why Choose Subscriber Based Community
Solar?
• Expands Participation – Open to all- democratizes solar for
renters, shaded homes, condo owner, live in a high rise, etc.
• Local Ownership - The generation assets are monetized by a 3rd
party to lower cost but all the solar production value is owned by
local area participants. This removes Security issues. All economic
benefits flow to participants, staying local for the life of the
project.
• Real Choice – The ability to self-direct and choose the type of
energy you use and where it comes from.
• Entire Community Wins – Money stays local, growing
exponentially via the “Local Multiplier Effect’.

4. How CGE’s CVSG Program Works – Option 1
• Cooperative and the Town sponsor the project and provides a host site for
the Community Virtual Solar Garden (‘CVSG’) common array.
• CGE develops, designs, funds, builds, owns, and operates the solar system
and creates the CVSG entity, subscribing resident participants and
managing the CVSG program for 20 to 35 years.
• Revenues the CVSG entity receives from the Host site under a 20-year
Power Purchase Agreement (with extensions), is re-distributed to all
subscribers… and all the monetary benefits stay in the community!

5. $418,211
$543,674
$920,064
$1,547,380
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$200,000
$400,000
$600,000
$800,000
$1,000,000
$1,200,000
$1,400,000
$1,600,000
$1,800,000
CVSG Benefits
Distributed
(Real)
Potential
Benefits
w/LME @ 25%
Potential
Benefits
w/LME @ 50%
Potential
Benefits
w/LME @ 75%
Benefits ($)
Financial Benefits/Effects of 100kW CVSG
Re-Distributed Over 20-Year PPA Term

6. How a CVSG will make a ‘difference’ in your
Community
• Brings solar participation to the 75% of people who
are not able to participate (shaded, rent, cost, etc.)
• Engages community in achieving affordable shared
goals from a community project for sustainable,
economic development.
• Makes your community an even better place to live.

7. Local Residents and
Businesses
 Affordable access to Solar Power
‘Ownership’ (30-40% less than
putting it on your own home)
 Lower Monthly Electric Bills
 Long-Term Hedge on
Power Prices

8. The Community
 More Local Jobs and Local Revenue
 Long-Term Capital Retention
 Dollars grow from Local Multiplier
Effect (re-circulated locally)
 Buy Local Incentives

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COMMUNITYGREENENERGY.com
Community Virtual Solar Gardens
Go Green… BETTER!