To better help you understand exactly what EnTrust Solar Development does for our partners, let’s take a look at a sample of an array site that we have developed for a rural school district. This elementary-only district comprises only 200 students in one building.

In this example, we have proposed a 230 kilowatt solar array to meet 79.43% of our customer’s electrical needs. Our array sites seek to fill roughly 80% of a customer’s electrical needs. You may find yourself asking - why not generate 100% of your customer’s electrical need? Truthfully, the answer to this question is complex and requires a discussion of net metering requirements, which we will avoid here for the sake of brevity.

Electricity from the array will be sold to our customer according to a two-rate tiered system. 50% of the array’s production will be sold to our customer at a rate of 6 cents per kilowatt hour generated, and the remaining 50% of production at a rate of 9.75 cents per kilowatt hour generated. An analysis of the customer’s bills revealed that they are currently paying 16.16 cents per kilowatt hour including all riders with their traditional utility prior to array installation. In our proposal, we assume that they will continue to purchase 20.57% of their needed electricity from their utility at current market pricing, which we propose will be subject to an approximate 3% escalation per year. We also assume that our partner’s electrical needs will increase at a rate of 1% every 5 years.