DER Revenue Analysis
Revenue Stack Advantage^SM Approach

Unlocking DER Potential with SEA

At Sustainable Energy Advantage (SEA), we understand the challenges and opportunities that come with navigating the ever-changing policy landscape shaping DER incentives. Our team of industry experts deliver customized market insights and strategic guidance to help you optimize DER revenues opportunities and confidently navigate uncertainty.

Foundational Market Insights That Drive DER Success

With SEA, you gain access to in-depth analysis of market trends, regulatory shifts, and DER economics, including opportunities within community solar, net metering, and battery storage. Our insights, and our foundational market knowledge such as those provided in our Eyes & Ears clean energy regulatory, policy and legislative market analysis and tracking service, help organizations understand emerging opportunities and make informed strategic decisions.

Community Solar: An Evolving Opportunity

As part of the broader DER landscape, policy support for community solar takes many shapes and forms. SEA helps stakeholders assess the revenue potential of community solar and navigate complex incentive structures. Our experts provide the necessary insights to understand policies, navigate risk, and identify markets that maximize revenue and financial returns. SEA offers a growing number of regularly updated community solar revenue forecasts off-the-shelf (see below), for which we employ SEA’s Revenue Stack Advantage^SM Approach for analyzing and forecasting distributed solar variable revenue streams.

Don’t see a region/utility of interest listed yet? Contact us! SEA has conducted dozens of bespoke analyses for clients forecasting community solar and net metering rates in every market from Maine to Virginia, Illinois to New Mexico, with plans to grow our on-demand offerings.

We provide community solar / net metering revenue analysis support for a variety of stakeholders, including:

• Project Developers: Gain the competitive edge with market forecasts, regulatory analysis, and strategic guidance.
• Policymakers: Shape the future with data-driven analysis and forecasts on policies promoting sustainable growth in distributed renewables and storage.
• Investors: Make informed decisions with objective market insights and risk assessments.

Ready to Harness the Power of Distributed Renewables?

Position your organization as a leader in the clean energy transition with SEA’s Distributed Solar Revenue Streams (with and without storage), available in our Store.

• Best-in-class forecasts of retail-rate-derivative incentives, including historic pricing and comprehensive market background for:
  • National Grid-Massachusetts Alternative On-Bill Credits
  • EversourceEast-Massachusetts Alternative On-Bill Credits
  • BangorHydro-Maine Net Energy Billing Incentives (Tariff Rate + kWh Credit)
  • Central Maine Power-Maine Net Energy Billing Incentives (Tariff Rate + kWh Credit)
  • Met-Ed – Pennsylvania Net Metering (Price-to-Compare)
  • PECO – Pennsylvania Net Metering (Price-to-Compare)
  • Penelec – Pennsylvania Net Metering (Price-to-Compare)
  • West Penn Power – Pennsylvania Net Metering (Price-to-Compare)
  • ComEd-Illinois Price-to-Compare
  • Ameren-Illinois Price-to-Compare
  • Next up are Maryland, New Jersey, and more Pennsylvania markets for more on-demand DER revenue analysis
• Forecasts of New York Value of Distributed Energy Resources (VDER) rates, with our customized forward-looking version of the NY-VDER calculator
• Best-in-class market fundamentals supply / demand / price forecasting of:
  • New England Class I RECs (New England REMO)
  • New York Tier I RECs (New York REMO)
  • PJM Class I RECs (Coming Soon)
  • Massachusetts CPECs (Massachusetts Clean Peak Market Outlook)

Case Study: SEA’s Revenue Analysis Provides Extraordinary Value for Home State Community Solar Developer
In this case study, Sustainable Energy Advantage (SEA) highlights how its comprehensive DER revenue analysis delivered significant insights and value to a highly informed community solar developer, providing extraordinary benefits, even to a well-versed market participant.

Don’t take just our word for it:

“When we need revenue forecasts of our portfolio of Community Solar / virtual net metering solar projects for financing and internal planning purposes, we know we can trust SEA to provide detailed, defensible, high-quality analysis and forecasts.  Their expertise offers the best value for our money for bankable forecasts necessary for financing.  Not only does SEA provide exceptional service, but they are also quick to respond to follow-up questions, and I always gain new insights from our discussions.  Working with SEA has helped us realize the full financial potential of our projects.”  

-VP at regional solar developer/owner/operator

Contact us today if you want to further explore how SEA’s expertise in distributed renewables, including community solar, can help you achieve your business goals.