Expand your solar vocabulary

• Carbon Footprint

  How much carbon a person’s activities emit due to the consumption of fossil fuels

• Commercial Operations Date

  The date on which a project becomes commercially operational

• Commercial Solar

  Retail energy interconnected at Distribution 

• Distributed Generation

  Electricity generation placed closer to the end user, thereby avoiding energy losses experienced in long distance transmission

• IPP (Independent Power Producers)

  Private entities that own and operate generation independently. They are not part of the public utility grid.

• Net Zero

  When the amount of greenhouse gasses one produces balances out with their activities that reduce or remove emissions

• NTP (Notice To Proceed)

  When a solar project is ready to start construction — contracts, permits, and agreements have been taken care of.

• Pipeline

  The various stages of a solar project’s development

• Renewables

  Environmentally friendly technologies such as solar and battery that are best suited for distributed generation

• Residential Solar

  Retail energy interconnected at End User

• Utility Scale

  Wholesale energy interconnected at transmission level