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Operating leases for commercial PV

Interview: pv magazine spoke with Stanley Fishbein, managing partner at CleanView Capital, about operating leases and why they are an attractive alternative form of financing for the C&I solar market.

pv magazine: Can you describe for our readers what an operating lease is, and how it works? Stanley Fishbein: Operating lease and capital lease are accounting classifications. So for book accounting purposes, when a lease has a purchase option with a bargain purchase price, like one dollar at the end, it is classified as a …

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