Standard Solar
Commercial and community solar company that develops, funds, owns and operates projects.
- Acquired, subsidiary of Brookfield Renewable
- Rockville, MD, US
Commercial and community solar company that develops, funds, owns and operates projects.
Standard Solar pairs an integrated develop-fund-own-operate model with in-house capital, including roughly $1.3 billion of tax equity and debt project financing, letting it fund projects directly and close acquisitions faster than brokerage-financed buyers.
Brookfield ownership since September 2022 provides large-scale capital access, and repeat project acquisitions from EDF power solutions, Cenergy Power and Pluma Construction and ForeFront Power evidence execution speed and partnership depth. A safe-harbored panel inventory captures federal incentives and compresses timelines, and in-house asset management and operations, including migration of roughly 370 MW to the Wattch monitoring platform, support a multi-decade owner-operator posture.
Source: standardsolar.com
Standard Solar's core community and commercial solar segments face federal policy headwinds: the 2025 tax-law overhaul phased down solar tax credits, module tariffs persist, and interconnection delays and permitting uncertainty constrain project pipelines.
The community solar segment declined 21% year over year in the third quarter of 2025. The company's funding and safe-harbor strategies mitigate but do not eliminate exposure to a business model that depends on federal tax incentives.
Source: solarbuildermag.com
Standard Solar is expanding its community solar footprint across New Mexico, Illinois and New York, where it owns and operates 82.3 MW of solar plus 5.6 MW of storage in New York state and is actively acquiring additional projects.
Industry forecasts project roughly 246 GWdc of US solar deployments between 2025 and 2030, with commercial and community solar outlooks improving, supporting continued acquisition-led growth for distributed-generation owner-operators.
Source: standardsolar.com
Standard Solar deploys in-house project capital, about $1.3 billion of tax equity and debt project financing, to fund commercial and community solar directly rather than brokering third-party financing.
For customers it offers power purchase agreements with power at a fixed monthly rate and no upfront cost or development risk, while developer partners can sell completed or late-stage projects to Standard Solar and realize returns at sale. Maintaining safe-harbored panel inventory captures federal incentives and accelerates acquisition-to-operation timelines.
Source: standardsolar.com
Standard Solar develops, funds, owns and operates commercial and community solar and solar-plus-storage assets across more than 20 US states and Washington, DC. Its service lines span development and EPC consulting, funding and acquisitions, long-term owner-operator asset management, operations and maintenance, SREC trading and community solar subscriptions.
The company owns and operates more than 500 MW of solar assets and serves businesses, institutions, farms, governments, communities, utilities and public-sector and education customers. It is headquartered in Rockville, Maryland, and has been a Brookfield portfolio company since 2022.
Source: standardsolar.com