What Community Solar Gardens Are
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A community solar garden allows people who cannot install solar panels on their own property, whether they rent, live in an apartment or have an unsuitable roof, to still benefit from solar generation by purchasing or subscribing to a share of a larger, shared solar installation located elsewhere nearby within the same network.
Participants typically receive a credit on their electricity bill proportional to their share of the shared installation's output, calculated and applied automatically by the electricity provider, functioning similarly to having panels on an individual roof without the physical installation itself being present on that specific property at all.
This model opens solar benefits to a considerably wider range of households than rooftop installation alone can reach, since it removes the requirement for suitable roof space, ownership of the property, or the substantial upfront cost of installing an individual solar system on a single home's own roof, whatever its orientation.