Places of Worship

Steward the building. Free the budget.

Congregations carry aging buildings and tight budgets, with energy quietly claiming dollars that could serve the community. Power modernizes generation, efficiency, and resilience with no upfront capital — and, because most houses of worship are tax-exempt, turns clean-energy tax credits into a direct cash payment.

A stone church with rooftop solar in warm golden light

Why it matters

Good stewardship of energy, too.

Solar and efficiency are a form of stewardship — lowering the operating cost of the building so more can go to the mission and the community. Financing structures fund the work from the savings at $0 upfront, and IRA elective ("direct") pay lets a tax-exempt congregation receive the credits as cash.

What we deliver for places of worship

01 · Funding

$0 upfront capital

Structures where energy savings fund the project — no capital campaign or new debt required.

02 · Direct pay

IRA elective (direct) pay

Tax-exempt congregations receive clean-energy tax credits as a direct cash payment.

03 · Generation

On-site solar

Rooftop and ground-mount solar sized to the sanctuary, hall, and campus load.

04 · Resilience

Community resilience

Storage that can keep the building running as a community shelter or warming/cooling center through outages.

Questions we hear

Straight answers, in plain terms.

We can't run a capital campaign for this — is there another way?
Yes. Through savings-funded structures like ESPC or Energy-as-a-Service, the energy savings pay for the project over the term at $0 upfront — no capital campaign, no new debt.
We don't pay taxes — do the tax credits help us?
They do now. Under the IRA's elective ("direct") pay provision, tax-exempt organizations can receive clean-energy tax credits as a direct cash payment, so the incentive value reaches your congregation even without tax liability.
Can solar help us serve the community?
On-site generation and storage can keep your building powered as a shelter or warming/cooling center during outages — turning good stewardship into community resilience.

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The conversation

See what your building could save.

In 30 minutes we'll model the savings, the $0-capital structure, and the direct-pay incentive your congregation can capture.

300+ MWOn-site capacity deployed
1,200+Facilities powered
$2.2B+Lifetime power savings
10 yrsIn business
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