A solar proposal can survive every engineering test and still die in the finance office. Sunstone Credit brings the loan into the sale, helping businesses own the equipment they want to install.
GoodLeap turned a five-minute financing decision into a clean-energy growth engine. The bet now is bigger - that the same software connecting a contractor, a homeowner and Wall Street can also connect millions of houses to the electric grid.
Palmetto owns the solar panels. You get the power. Inside the Charlotte software company betting that clean energy should work like a subscription - and raising billions to prove it.
Solar installers still lose hours to tool-switching, proposal rework and disconnected monitoring. Enact is stitching design, engineering, financing and long-term asset care into one record - and its PVComplete acquisition makes the wager much more interesting.
Isaac Baker and Ben Underwood built a solar company around the customers the industry finds too poor or too complicated. Nearly a decade in, the affordable-housing rooftops are paying them back.