Instead of owning a solar system, a homeowner or business essentially leases power from a system on its property that is owned by another company.
The entire operation is organized by a private company that sets up markets like this around the world; in New York, the city receives $1 million for essentially leasing the parkland for the Christmas shopping season.
MVNOs function by essentially leasing capacity from a larger provider.
International Farming Corp. owns and manages land that it, essentially, leases out to commercial farmers, helping them maximize the land's yield and profitability.
Sensing the need for clubs in markets big and small to provide the service, the company rolled out a "managed service" option, with which teams essentially lease the service instead of buying.
What speaks for the company, however, is that they're bound to know exactly how valuable it is: PriveCo has been running Vibrators.com since 2002, essentially leasing the domain from someone else.
They simply replenish them by turning to so-called "body-shops", businesses that specialize in importing young males from India by essentially "leasing" bodies to American employers.
Such new business models could make it much easier for customers to add storage to existing solar systems, or to build storage into new systems, through what are essentially leasing arrangements similar to the third-party models that have made PV broadly accessible and wildly popular.
Most of the money, however, is still available for a recently unveiled lease program in which homeowners essentially rent a solar system.
The art may vary in style and shock value, but the settings are essentially the same — spaces donated or leased for a song by building owners unable to rent or develop them.
