About a decade ago, Ruth Amundsen was talking to a solar financier who told her about the concept of power purchase agreements.
The agreements are “a way for someone to buy solar and put it on another institution, and then get their money back,” said Amundsen, a former NASA engineer who now operates several local solar organizations, including Norfolk Solar.
She started thinking of where to put the concept into practice and one place quickly came to mind: her children’s school, Norfolk Academy…