Solar Self-Generated Agreement (Solar SGA®)

Solar Self-Generation Agreement (Solar SGA®) is our proprietary alternative to a Power Purchase Agreement for customers located in utility territories that disallow PPAs. The Solar SGA® is a performance-based agreement to monetize the federal Solar Investment Tax Credit and pass the savings along to our customers, even if they are public schools, non-profit colleges or other non-taxable entities that are unable to use the tax credit in their own right.

Solar Investment Tax Credit (Solar ITC)

The Solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) was significantly increased with the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022.  For projects up to 1 MW (AC), many of which fit the profile for net-metered rooftop solar solutions, such as on public schools, it provides for an automatic 30% ITC, plus adders for domestic content and energy communities.  These ITC adders build towards Secure Solar Futures’ longstanding history and commitment to building solar projects with American-made equipment and investing in SV VA and WV coalfield communities.

S3: Secure Solar Savings

When it comes to solar, more is often better. But not always. Sometimes a school, hospital or business can actually save more money by installing fewer solar panels. For customers whose incumbent electric utility levies a demand charge on top of their base power rate, we undertake additional analysis to optimize the solar peak demand contribution, which we call S3: Secure Solar Savings. We employ a proprietary three-step process to build a solar power system that will give you the most economic benefit:

1. Physical Design — Optimize a solar array for the rooftop or ground space available
2. Electrical Usage — Analyze in detail your electrical usage including peak demand patterns and utility rate tariff
3. Economic Analysis — Integrate physical design with electrical usage to give you the right amount of solar capacity to save you the most money

This process yields projections of solar energy production for our customers’ projects that have proven 97% accurate.

Resilient Solar + Roof Renovation™

Our unique Resilient Solar + Roof Restoration® offering provides a 20- or 25-year solar Power Purchase Agreement or Solar Self-Generation Agreement® combined with a roof restoration carrying a warranty that also lasts 20 or 25 years. Combining these two services makes more of our customers’ roofs ready to host solar panels, which in turn, gives our customers the ability to get started with solar more quickly and to install more solar panels on their roofs.