Solar savings for all, guaranteed.
Exciting news: Oregon Shines is now part of Arcadia! Explore this page to get started with community solar. No installations. No extra costs. Just cleaner energy and annual power bill savings.
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Solar savings that are sure as the sun.
With a community solar subscription, you automatically receive solar credits that translate to guaranteed savings on your power bill.
Cleaner energy, faster than ever.
Signup takes only two minutes online. No changes to your current electricity provider and no long-term contracts — guaranteed.
Solar across the states.
By joining our solar community, you’re advancing our mission to bring community solar to every state. Our policy team works directly with legislators, coalitions, and the Department of Energy itself to pass bills that give more solar power to the people.
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How to join
Create an Arcadia account
Signing up is simple. All you need is two minutes and a utility account.
Securely sync your utility account with Arcadia
This connection helps us maximize your savings based on how much energy you typically use.
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Connect a payment method so solar credits can automatically be applied to your bill.
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Frequently asked questions
Each Community Solar subscriber receives a portion of the community solar savings generated by their local project. Once the projects start to generate energy, you will start to see those savings reflected on your utility bill. Your local utility bill will see a reduction in your overall utility charges as a result of community solar savings being applied. You will receive a set percentage of the total community solar savings generated by your share in the project, outlined in your subscriber agreement. The remaining solar savings are allocated towards maintaining and operating the local solar project.
For more information on how your bill is calculated by state, visit our Support Center.
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Each state has different rules and regulations of Community Solar programs. To learn more about how Community Solar works in your state, visit our support center.
Once we connect you to a local Community Solar project and that project starts producing energy, you will start seeing savings on your utility bill. The solar savings will continue as long as you are with us, for the determined term length of the project. The construction and connection timelines for solar projects are variable, and are always prone to change. Our members are typically connected to a project within a few months of determined eligibility.
If you would like to cancel your Arcadia membership and discontinue your Community Solar savings, you will simply need to contact our Member Experience team at support@arcadia.com. You can also reach out to us by phone at (866) 526-0083 during standard business hours.
If you are enrolled on a solar project, we will need to remove your subscription from the project. It takes the solar developer and utility company three to six months to fully process an un-enrollment from the Community Solar project. This timeline accounts for your specific billing cycle, as well as the amount of time it actually takes for the utility to cease applying solar savings to your account.
During the cancellation period, your Arcadia account will remain open. After the cancellation period, you will no longer receive solar savings and if you were enrolled in Auto-Pay with Arcadia, you will go back to receiving a statement directly from your local utility company. We will keep you updated during that time and reach back out to you via email when the cancellation process is complete.
This organization is operating under the Oregon Community Solar Program. The Oregon Community Solar Program is a state-enabled initiative overseen by the Oregon Public Utility Commission and implemented by Energy Solutions, The Energy Trust of Oregon, and Community Energy Project, and Portland General Electric. The Program provides resources and certification for its Project Managers (PMs) but does not promote any individual PM or PM affiliated organization. For more information about the program, call 1-800-481-0510 or email info@oregoncsp.org.