; (B) assist States and local and Tribal governments in the development of new and innovative financial and business models that leverage competition in the marketplace in order to serve community solar subscribers; and (C) use National Laboratories (as defined in section 2 of the Energy Policy Act of 2005 ( 42 U.S.C. 15801 )) to collect and disseminate data to assist private entities in the financing of, subscription to, and operation of community solar projects. (c) Federal Government participation in community solar The Secretary will expand the existing grant, loan, and financing programs to include community solar projects (as defined in paragraph (20) of section 111(d) of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 ( 16 U.S.C. 2621(d) ), as added pursuant to section 3 of this Act). 3. Establishment of community solar programs (a) In general Section 111(d) of the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 ( 16 U.S.C. 2621(d) ) is amended by adding at the end the following: (20) Community solar programs Each electric utility shall offer a community solar program. For the purposes of this paragraph, the term community solar program means a service provided to any electric consumer that the electric utility serves through which the value of electric energy generated by a community solar facility may be used to offset charges billed to the electric consumer by the electric utility. A community solar facility is— (A) a solar photovoltaic system that allocates electricity to multiple electric consumers of an electric utility; (B) connected to a local distribution of the electric utility; (C) located either on or off the property of the electric consumers