SunShare Community Solar Gardens’ Impact

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Our Communities

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Our Approach

Leaving the land better than we found it.

Our Pollinator Pledge

When possible, we design our gardens to serve as a habitat for bees and butterflies that pollinate local farms.

Peak-Performance

We design our solar gardens with state of the art technology and technical expertise. Because a well-performing system for the long term means a bigger impact for subscribers and the community alike.

Sustainable Land Use

We try to build on brownfield sites, which include land with limited use such as old landfills or chemical spill sites. ​

Long-Term Ownership

We are the long-term owners of our new solar projects. That means we have a vested interest in ensuring optimal performance of the garden as well as the experience of our subscribers and communities we build in.

SunShare’s Monthly Solar Production

Find Your Garden

Featured Community Solar Project

Juniper Sol Community Solar Garden

Just outside Santa Fe, we are finishing up construction on the Juniper Sol Community Solar Garden. With a total capacity of 6,255 kW (DC), the project is designed to deliver meaningful impact—on the grid, on the land, and in the surrounding community—with local collaboration playing a key role throughout.

Through Juniper Sol, SunShare is contributing $25,500 to Santa Fe Habitat for Humanity to support affordable homeownership, $200,000 to Coalition to Stop Violence Against Native Women to advance safety and advocacy for Native women and children, and $1 million to Navajo Technical University to expand access to education grounded in both cultural tradition and technical innovation.

The site also supports early-stage agrivoltaics research, with a focus on minimizing land disturbance and restoring soil health. Native grasses, pollinator habitats, and practices like biochar enrichment are being incorporated to help the land thrive alongside the solar array.

Juniper Sol shows how renewable energy projects can strengthen communities, support education, and invest in the long-term health of the land.

SunShare Community Solar Gardens FAQ

It takes SunShare about 9 – 12 months to acquire land, obtain zoning approvals, receive utility approvals, construct a solar garden and connect and activate the solar garden.
Yes. By choosing to support a local community solar program you are contributing to reducing our reliance on fossil fuels and creating fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

SunShare will send you a garden activation alert via email about 1 – 2 months prior to your solar garden going live. This email will inform you when your solar garden will be active, and when you will start receiving the benefits of your community solar subscription.

All of SunShare’s community solar gardens participate in Agrivoltaics, which means the pairing of agriculture and photovoltaic solar. The Agrivotaics is designed for the native environment at the community solar garden, and ranges from hosting honey bee apiaries to sheep grazing to the planting of native pollinators to full-scale farming including leafy greens and apple orchards. SunShare is committed to leaving the land better than we found it, and working directly within the native landscape and environment.
Some of our Minnesota gardens are listed by their project name. View the below guide to determine your project name.