Featured in Meet your makers – 03-2015

Leasing to own: a winning formula for the US market

Solar leasing: While solar leasing as pioneered by SolarCity has catapulted US residential PV to new heights, leasing and other financial models have done little to promote commercial and industrial systems in the country. LFC Capitals Solar Ownership Program combines leasing and ownership in what could be a winning formula to help drive this market segment further.

By

Eckhart Gouras

06 Mar 2015

When Stanley Fishbein, Managing Director of Chicago-based LFC Capital, first promoted his solar leasing program to developers in the U.S. early last year, he focused on the leasing and tax aspects of the program. After all, solar leasing programs had become the leading business model to attract residential customers in the U.S. to put PV …

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