Purchasing Power

This Best Practices Guide by the World Resources Institute provides a 12-step process to help commercial and government entities organize and execute collaborative solar photovoltaic (PV) purchases to reduce costs and scale deployment.

• Several barriers hinder the scaling of solar PV adoption among government and commercial consumers, including high transaction costs due to a fragmented industry and non-standardized installation processes, the time and effort required for buyers to learn about technology and financing, and a fragmented demand model where sites are developed opportunistically one at a time.
• Collaborative purchasing can mitigate barriers to solar PV deployment by grouping interested consumers and installation sites to aggregate demand, educate buyers, and lower transaction costs, ultimately allowing for installation at costs lower than the average.
• The guide provides a 12-step process of best practices, chronological actions, and milestones designed to help regional groups of participants install solar PV on their facilities at competitive prices.
• The best practices in the guide are derived from research, real-world experiences, and two specific case studies—one private sector and one public sector—which were among the first regional collaborations of their scale in the country.

APA

World Resources Institute (n.d.). Purchasing Power. https://www.wri.org/research/purchasing-power

Chicago

World Resources Institute. Purchasing Power. n.d. https://www.wri.org/research/purchasing-power.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{worldresourcesinstitutendpurchasing, author = {{World Resources Institute}}, title = {{Purchasing Power}}, institution = {World Resources Institute}, url = {https://www.wri.org/research/purchasing-power}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }