A Community Solar Garden is a large solar PV (photo-voltaic) project where the electricity (generated from sunlight) is credited to many people in a community who choose to subscribe. Like a community garden in which each person has a plot, each participant (called a subscriber) generates electricity from their part of the solar garden. The electricity is delivered via the existing utility grid and is credited to subscriber’s electric bills, so subscribers do not need to be physically located near to the solar garden. The only requirement is that you are an Xcel Energy customer. The cost of subscribing is usually less than the money saved on energy bills, so subscribers save right away. Unlike the coal, nuclear, gas, and oil that produce most of the energy we use, solar energy is pollution free.