Community Solar Authority | Your Bolt-On, Boutique Anchor Partner

Acquiring Sticky Anchor Clients Better, Faster, & Cheaper

Community solar aggregators overpromise the world & underdeliver on almost all of it just to win your business- and I think it’s bullsh*t.

Developers opting for the do-it-all aggregator model to tackle project acquisition have realized a clear distinction between those capable of enrolling mass-market vs firms who can subscribe anchors.

As they continued to have aggregators miss acquisition deadlines, subscribe risky off-takers, & fail to properly educate clients- we realized there was a massive problem to solve.

For the last half-decade of consulting alongside the most significant developers in the US, we’ve helped them change how they think about getting projects financed with strong anchor acquisitions.

My name is Dakota Malone and I co-founded Community Solar Authority. We’ve created a bolt-on, boutique firm that subscribes your development pipelines with high-quality anchor tenants better, faster- & cheaper.

Here’s a breakdown of exactly how we do that.

Better | Hand-Tailored Community Solar Rollouts

“Quality is the best business plan.” — John Lasseter

Innovation makes the world go round.

Oftentimes, it’s just finding better ways to do something that already exists.

In our world, that meant finding a better way to subscribe anchor tenants to community solar.

In a process of inverting the market, we found our strategy to building a lean, niche firm that can deliver higher quality results.

The secret for us in the hand-tailored community solar rollouts we deliver on our client-facing delivery system.

Every single anchor tenant that we subscribe comes as a result of our executive team managing execution.

We consult, educate, and advocate for offtakers to access community turnkey & support them soup to nuts.

Faster | Our Community Solar Fast-Pass

“Just remember, once you’re over the hill you begin to pick up speed.” — Charles M. Schulz

Synergy is about replacing the energy wasted in competition & pointing it towards collaboration.

This is exactly what we’ve managed to do with our affiliate pipeline consistening of ESCO’s, energy companies- & more.

We serve as their official bolt-on community solar partner, deliver our rollouts hand-tailored by our executive team- then we celebrate together.

This works for us because we’ve systematized our business in a way where we can predictably deliver corporate-style rollouts in ~90 days flat.

Not only are we creating predictable results with our system, but we’re ending up with better-educated clients that stick for the long run.

With over a half-decade of experience in delivering community solar access for anchor tenants, our process is down to a science.

Cheaper | Economies of Scale

“There are so many men who can figure costs, and so few who can measure values.” — Author Unknown

There’s perks to being a lean, bootstrapped business model.

Almost all of our competition consists of overinflated companies with incompetence & inconsistency baked into their model.

This means that they can’t pivot, be agile, or deliver results cheaper because of stakeholders, debt, etc.

While these aggregators are trying to win all subscription & management opportunities to balance their books- we just come with a single play.

Our community solar developers continue to use their aggregators, but they give themselves the ability to subscribe their own anchors too.

The developers create a carveout on capacity for us internally, we subscribe it alongside them cheaper than their aggregator at scale, and everyone wins.

The developers love it because they get to pay less, for higher-quality anchor offtake, while still using their aggregators to subscribe the mass-market.

It comes with little downside or risk, and they don’t need to change vendors to see a massive improvement in anchor subscription- which is a critical part of their business.

Conclusion

Everyone wants something better, faster, & cheaper to grow their business.

The problem lies in finding the balance of a low-risk scenario with high-reward opportunities.

In the world of community solar- we’ve uncovered this to be hand-tailored community solar rolluts for anchor tenants.

Our team has been working with developers & financiers in the community solar space to help them create a better business model for less by serving as a bolt-on partner.

Curious if we could help you do something similar?

You can get started by booking a call at communitysolarauthority.com

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