If you want to support solar energy initiatives, but buying solar panels for your home or business is not an option, GUC’s Community Solar Program may be an option for you.
For less than $6 a month, all GUC electric customers have the opportunity to support renewable energy in our community.
Community Solar is where customers from across GUC can subscribe to solar panels that are all in one central location (our Community Solar Farm) with the solar energy created going directly into GUC’s electric grid and being shared across the entire community. This allows subscribers to get the benefits of solar without having to install their own rooftop or ground panels.
To subscribe to a GUC Community Solar Farm panel, you pay a one-time enrollment fee, a small subscription fee, and receive a monthly credit to offset some of the costs.
In an effort to make participation in this program even more accessible, GUC recently created the payment option for the one-time enrollment fee of $35. Instead of paying that fee all at once, subscribers now have the option to spread the payment over a 12-month period.
For example, when you subscribe to one solar panel, you only pay $5.98 each month for the first 12 months. The subscription fee, monthly fee, and monthly credit are all included in the payment calculation. At the end of 12 months, the enrollment fee is paid off, and your payments then drops to only $2.86 per month for the panel.
The subscription fee is per panel, so the total fees do increase with every extra solar panel you want to subscribe to. This option makes it easier for a customer who wants to be part of the growing renewable energy system and subscribe to multiple solar panels.
Community Solar is available to all active GUC electric residential, commercial, and industrial customers. To learn more about how to sign up, visit www.guc.com/solar or call 252-752-7166.