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Free Tool: Site Lease vs. Buy Modeling Calculator

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Chris Lord’s FREE Site Lease vs. Buy Modeling Calculator allows users to compare a lease rate against a potential purchase of a solar PV site where the lease rate (including escalator) is known.

Buy Vs. Lease

This tool is used in HeatSpring’s Financial Modeling for Solar PV Projects course.

About Chris Lord

Person_medium_chris-lord-_square_Christopher J. Lord is a lawyer with extensive banking experience, and the Managing Director of CapIron, Inc., a firm he founded in late 2011, to provide advisory and consulting services to customers, owners, developers, utilities, suppliers, installers and distributors covering the full range of value-add in renewable energy and energy efficiency. CapIron has provided consulting and modeling services for waste-to-energy projects, advisory services to a large-scale distributed generation solar project, consulting and advisory services in the solar thermal industry and early-stage development of a startup wind energy company.

Courses Chris is Teaching:

Free Courses Solar Design & Installation Solar Finance Solar Sales & Marketing
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Abby is HeatSpring's Product Marketing Manager located in Boston, Massachusetts. She is passionate about people and education, particularly in diversifying the burgeoning fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. Abby works with instructors to build new courses and engages with our community of students and experts through HeatSpring Magazine and social media.

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