Solar for Farms
Install solar on farms and rural businesses and get paid for the power they use, year after year. Power prices are rising, grants are available and most of the region's farms have never been offered a system.
Across a five-state farming region, dairy barns, irrigation pumps, grain dryers and rural workshops run on expensive grid power. Federal grants and falling panel prices make solar pay back in a few years, and most farms have never had an installer call. The big residential installers stay in the suburbs; the rural electric co-ops are only starting community solar. The decisions are about building an installer: crews and engineers before contracts, which customers first — dairies with steady load, irrigators with summer peaks, small family farms or rural businesses — how to price a power agreement against the co-op rate, and which states to work in. It teaches the open-market lesson: the rivals hold little and the market grows every year, so the limit on a good company is how fast it can hire, install and finance — and the mistake is building slower than demand.
$5.00 a seat · 4 simulated years, decided quarterly · by SparkTower.