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4 idontwantthis 8 7/10/2025, 6:42:06 PM

Does this product exist?

Why do people build solar panels on their roofs instead of investing money in large scale solar projects and then receiving a dividend proportional to the power generation built from their investment?

Shouldn’t I be able to say, fund $10k of solar generation somewhere in the world and receive a check every month for the power I helped produce?

This makes a lot more sense to me than building panels on my roofs instead with all of their extra costs.

Comments (8)

bradac56 · 1d ago

Check with your public power company they are the only ones that let you buy into a solar farm you will never see that from a private company which is nearly all of the solar/wind mega's.

Putting panels on your roof is not an investment it's power freedom from serge pricing models. It's a home not an investment.

a_tartaruga · 19h ago

TAN ETF is basically this if you think about it

solardev · 1d ago

Look into community solar: https://www.energy.gov/eere/solar/community-solar-basics

Or virtual power plants.

Or at bigger scales, you can invest in commercial solar companies or engage in carbon trading. It's all a bunch of intertied markets.

idontwantthis · 3h ago

Yeah I guess I should be able to get the same thing from more abstract products. I’m still stuck trying to understand why home solar makes any sense when someone should be able to have a greater carbon impact and make more money for their investment by putting it into major installations.

conjecTech · 1d ago

You can buy stock in a solar "yieldco", which is exactly this. It holds the assets of solar farms and pays out the cashflows. There were a lot circa 2018, I believe Brookfield bought up a bunch, so there may be fewer options now.

omnizone · 20h ago

Have you thought about building a Solar CRM?

brudgers · 22h ago

For most investment vehicles, $10k is not worth interacting with and investors with only $10k is unattractive because of the expectations such investors tend to have in aggregate.

Good luck.

uberman · 1d ago

Many utilities do pay divadends.