Community solar.

I recently switched my electrical supplier to community solar, and if everything is like it seems, I should have done this years ago.

Like, if I understand it correctly, solar is cheaper overall than regular electricity, but you have start-up costs and maybe you can’t get it at your house for whatever reason, so what private companies do is with the money that solar would save you, they start up solar farms and sell a part of the solar to you and from the money that’s saved you save money albeit a bit less than if you had it yourself, since the company also takes a slice of money from those savings because that’s how they make their profit.

It's like everyone wins all around, the environment and you and the company and it’s all legit, and it seems like state laws had to be put in place, too, to facilitate this framework.

Only, they advertise it and they don’t explain it clearly, and they send you letters saying that they’ll give you a $75 giftcard for whatever if you sign up with them, and it all seems scammy like they’ll get you to sign up and then whack you with high costs.

At least, that’s how it seems to me now…  We’ll see if this pans out when I get assigned to a solar farm and everything goes into effect.