{"id":1990,"date":"2013-01-07T14:31:18","date_gmt":"2013-01-07T22:31:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatepolicyinitiative.org\/?p=1990"},"modified":"2026-04-15T20:45:22","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T20:45:22","slug":"banking-on-the-sun","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.climatepolicyinitiative.org\/pt-br\/banking-on-the-sun\/","title":{"rendered":"Banking on the sun"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last month, David Crane and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.\u00a0wrote in the New York Times<\/a>\u00a0about the potential of rooftop solar to make the United States more disaster-resilient and energy independent and at the same time democratize electricity generation.\u00a0 They rightly pointed out that in Germany, where rooftop solar is now\u00a0much less expensive than in the United States<\/a>, renewable energy provides dividends to homeowners and is\u00a0breaking records for clean energy generation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

While Germany is a great example of success in distributed generation, the advent of solar leasing in the U.S. promises to make investing in solar even easier.\u00a0 SolarCity, whose\u00a0stock price surged nearly 50%<\/a>\u00a0after their initial public offering, has been a pioneer in solar leasing, which allows homeowners to install solar with no money down.\u00a0 Sungevity\u00a0has begun to test this model abroad<\/a>\u00a0in Australia and Holland.\u00a0 This morning,\u00a0Solar Mosaic<\/a>\u00a0took this model a step further by allowing individuals to take the place of banks and large corporations in bankrolling profitable solar investments, even if they don’t have a roof to put it on.\u00a0Further, the Brookings Institution and Stanford’s Steyer-Taylor center have been promoting policy to create\u00a0even more avenues<\/a>\u00a0for crowd-funding of clean energy.<\/p>\n

Solar leasing and crowd-funding are moving forward to make investing in clean energy an option for more people, and policy can help.\u00a0Effective policy can bring down costs, leading us closer to clean energy investments that are profitable.\u00a0For example, experts are studying how policy can streamline\u00a0permitting<\/a>, interconnection<\/a>, and\u00a0customer acquisition<\/a>, all of which are often expensive, time-consuming, paperwork laden processes.<\/p>\n

CPI is studying how solar leasing has had an impact on access to solar, costs, and deployment, as well as what it means for policy. Our results will be released in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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