On a sunny January morning in Somerville, Sunwealth sat down with the co-founder of Resonant Energy, Isaac Baker, to talk about Resonant’s story, goals for 2019, and their partnership with Sunwealth.
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The rooftop solar industry has grown almost 50% per year since 2012 – an important trend that demonstrates that we are transitioning to a clean energy economy. When we take a closer look, however, the dark underbelly of the solar miracle comes to the surface. A recent report in Nature Sustainability shows that the financial benefits of solar flow disproportionally to “white-majority” communities, while leaving racial and ethnic majority communities behind.
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Every year, more and more people consider the importance of impact when deciding to invest – without a doubt, our community is growing. When speaking about impact investing, David Bank, editor of ImpactAlpha, shared a question: “Things that used to be cutting edge are becoming conventional wisdom. It is happening, but is it happening fast enough?”
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Making an equity investment in Sunwealth’s Solar Impact Fund has many benefits, the most valuable of which are the tax benefits that are provided to each investor. Hence, such equity investments in solar are commonly referred to as Tax Equity, because an investor’s financial return in a tax equity investment is a combination of cash, federal tax credits and tax-deductible depreciation.
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We compiled all our 2018 newsletters to share with our growing community. To join our mailing list, please email hello@sunwealth.com.
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A colleague recently shared with me a copy of E.F. Schumacher’s book Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. The book, originally published in 1973 energy crisis, is often considered the inspiration for the “buy local” and “fair trade” movements.
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(Boston, MA) October 31, 2018 – Sunwealth, the renewable energy investment firm working to change who has access to renewable energy by changing the way we invest in it, announced a $3 million loan from Reinvestment Fund to support Sunwealth’s renewable energy access work.
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Far too often, the concept of impact investing is solely linked to philanthropy, or the idea of concessionary returns. While such capital can be vital to those wishing to stimulate deep impact in high-risk, low-return asset classes, it is possible to have a similarly material impact in asset classes where the risk-adjusted return profile is far better.
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The existing extractive energy economy isn’t working. Our dependence on coal, oil and gas contributes to global warming, the physical destruction of communities and pollution-related health issues which impact all of us – and disproportionately affect low-income people and communities of color. It’s not sustainable. And it’s fundamentally unjust.
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