Lower your electricity bills with community solar
Our community solar program is now operated by Perch Energy. Head to their site to learn more about how we've helped thousands of renters, homeowners, and businesses benefit from state community solar programs.
An energy discount program that rewards you for helping the planet
- Get subscribed to a solar farm in your community.
- It sends clean power to the electric grid.
- Receive a discount off your utility bill.
Full transparency, no surprises—just savings
Community solar is new to many states and doesn’t even exist in some. Input your zip code and our matching platform will look at availability near you.
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Signup takes only a few minutes online. No changes to your current electricity provider and no lock-in contracts.
Add a way to pay (don’t worry, you still net out with savings over time)
You pay for a percentage of the credits your subscription earns, keeping the rest as a discount. Arcadia acts as the middleman, passing the payment along to the solar farm owner.
Get subscribed, start saving, and feel good about helping the planet
Arcadia gets to work, coordinating with the utility and solar farm owner to secure your spot—and lock in your long-term savings.
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Frequently asked questions
Each Community Solar customer receives a portion of the community solar savings generated by their local project. Once the projects start to generate energy, you will start to see those savings reflected on your utility bill. Your local utility bill will see a reduction in your overall utility charges as a result of community solar savings being applied. You will receive a set percentage of the total community solar savings generated by your share in the project, outlined in your subscriber agreement. The remaining solar savings are allocated towards maintaining and operating the local solar project.
For more information on how your bill is calculated by state, visit our Support Center.
- Colorado
- Delaware
- Illinois
- Maryland
- Maine
- Massachusetts
- New Jersey
- New York
- Oregon
- Rhode Island
- New Mexico
Each state has different rules and regulations of Community Solar programs. To learn more about how Community Solar works in your state, visit our support center.
Once we connect you to a local Community Solar project and that project starts producing energy, you will start seeing savings on your utility bill. The solar savings will continue as long as you are with us, for the determined term length of the project. The construction and connection timelines for solar projects are variable, and are always prone to change. Our customers are typically connected to a project within a few months of determined eligibility.
If you would like to cancel your Arcadia account and discontinue your Community Solar savings, you will simply need to contact our Customer Experience team at support@arcadia.com. You can also reach out to us by phone at (866) 526-0083 during standard business hours.
If you are enrolled on a solar project, we will need to remove your enrollment from the project. It takes the solar developer and utility company three to six months to fully process an un-enrollment from the Community Solar project. This timeline accounts for your specific billing cycle, as well as the amount of time it actually takes for the utility to cease applying solar savings to your account. During the cancellation period, your Arcadia account will remain open.
After the cancellation period, you will no longer receive solar savings and if you were enrolled in Auto-Pay with Arcadia, you will go back to receiving a statement directly from your local utility company. We will keep you updated during that time and reach back out to you via email when the cancellation process is complete.