Commercial Solar Finance Options

SolMarket

Access to solar financing is critical to getting commercial solar energy projects off the ground, which is why Sol Systems offers solar financing tools through SolMarket, our new financing platform. To learn more, please visit www.SolMarket.com.

SolMarket, a wholly owned subsidiary of Sol Systems, is a transaction-driven ecosystem for the solar industry that catalyzes investment in solar energy by transforming how commercial solar projects are financed. SolMarket provides investors and developers with the tools they need to efficiently originate, evaluate, finance, and construct renewable energy projects. SolMarket has over $1.9 billion in committed partnership funds seeking qualified solar projects and hundreds of users from the solar community.

SolMarket Benefits

Connect

Profiles: Each member of the Sol Market community has an online profile that allows them to connect and interact efficiently in the renewable energy market.
Blueprints: Sol Market also provides developers with a set development timeline and blueprint that ensures project development benchmarks are properly sequenced.
Communicate: Once you are ready to seek investment or make an investment, Sol Market provides the tools to connect you with the investor or developer community and efficiently find those whose interests are best aligned with yours.
Document Library: Sol Market offers an online repository for all of your developer documentation, including individual project documentation, as well as corporate documentation. This provides one place to store and manage your project documents, save new documents, and share documents (when you’re ready) with investors. This structure has been vetted with investors as well, which means they’ll be able to work with you more efficiently.
Market Analytics: Only available to members of Sol Market, Sol SREC Analytics is an SREC price forecasting tool that provides a standardized benchmark for the solar industry to utilize when transacting in the SREC space. Short-term and long-term SREC pricing is aggregated from several sources, as well as from Sol Systems’ proprietary market analysis. This is updated on a real-time basis so that developers or investors with project opportunities in D.C., Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey, Ohio, and Pennsylvania (as well as some of the secondary SREC markets) can easily evaluate their expected project returns based on different market scenarios.

Finance

Models: Sol Market provides a number of financing tools for project to move from the development phase to the financing phase. We offer a template model to help you develop a pro forma for your project. This model is free and readily available to Sol Market members.
Underwriting: We also provide third party financial auditing for your projects. Simply upload your project and request an audit. You can find third party financial services under the Ancillary Services button above as well.
Standardized Documentation Suite: Sol Market provides a suite of standardized documents that enable developers and investors to more efficiently transact. These templates also encourage developers to appropriately structure projects transactions to help secure financing. Financeable projects are critical for investors because it allows them to bundle projects with others in a portfolio, which reduces risk.
Other Services: Sol Market offers its users a number of other ancillary services, including engineering estimates, project finance advisory services, portfolio analysis and deal structuring.

Construct

Monitoring and Servicing: Sol Market provides you with monitoring resources for individual projects, as well as portfolios. We can help you manage payments, tax documentation, and project energy production through real time monitoring. If you have a portfolio with multiple meters and technologies, we can provide a unified user interface for you and manage energy production and payment on your behalf.
Ancillary Services: Sol Market offers its users a number of ancillary services. Give us a call, and we will see how we can help you.