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The City of [[Ellensburg, Washington]], and its municipal electric utility claim to have installed the first community solar system in 2006.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Community Solar Beginnings |url=https://www.stoel.com/legal-insights/special-reports/the-rise-of-community-solar/sections/the-rise-of-community-solar |website=Stoel Rives}}</ref>
Federal and other tax policies are necessary to finance community solar farms. [[U.S. Senator]] [[Mark Udall]] introduced the SUN Act (Solar Uniting Neighborhoods) to extend the existing 30% tax credit to community solar farms in 2010 and 2011.<ref name=ww/><ref name=ci/><ref name=sunact/> The bill would have enabled groups of individuals or homeowner associations to develop utility-scale solar power facilities in collaboration with local utilities that would distribute the power and credit owners based on their percentage of investment in the solar farm, extending the tax credits accordingly.
Many states have adopted virtual net metering (VNM) policies, which let businesses or households that subscribe to an offsite community solar project receive the net metering credits from that remote project.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Community Solar: What is it? {{!}} EnergySage|url=https://www.energysage.com/solar/community-solar/community-solar-power-explained/|access-date=2021-02-23|website=www.energysage.com}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|date=2019-05-04|title=Virtual Net Metering: What Is It? How Does It Work? {{!}} EnergySage|url=https://news.energysage.com/virtual-net-metering-what-is-it-how-does-it-work/|access-date=2021-02-23|website=Solar News|language=en-US}}</ref>
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