Small Business Solar PPA: The Solution to Transaction Costs : Greentech Media

Small Business Solar PPA: The Solution to Transaction Costs : Greentech Media: "In a PPA, the project developer pays to install the solar and, in exchange, the host facility's owner agrees to buy the solar energy for the next 15 to 20 years. Companies like SunEdison and SolarCity are successfully using this brilliant approach to line up residential customers and large facility customers. The problem is virtually no one offers PPAs to the millions of small-to-medium size businesses in America. Why? Transaction costs. They eat up all the savings on small systems.