“In the context of solar, the main difference is that the large utility-scale projects are selling power,” says Jake Glavin, founder of Woven Energy and executive director of Midwest Tribal Energy Resources Association (MTERA), “whereas with these community-scale and smaller-scale projects, they’re actually offsetting [electricity] purchases.” https://time.com/6166734/us-indigenous-utility-solar-power/
In Search of Funding, Tribal Communities Are Turning to Corporate Investment to Embrace Solar Power