For most people exploring solar and battery storage for their company, this operational question often looms large: once this system is built, what does my team have to do? The fear is that owning an energy asset means inheriting an ongoing technical burden. The...
Behind the Meter
What Waiting One Year to Deploy Solar or Storage Actually Costs a Business
Mar 30, 2026
The Solar Efficiency Argument Has a Dollar Value, and Its Not Big The case for waiting on solar technology rests on the observation that panel efficiency tends to improve over time, which is accurate. The rate of improvement is approximately half a percent per year in...
Selling Solar Tax Credits: Why Sell, When to Sell and Navigating the Process
Feb 17, 2026
A conversation with Erik Underwood of Basis Climate and James Coombes of Conductor Solar When the Inflation Reduction Act passed in 2022, Erik Underwood and his co-founder read the legislation, saw the part about tax credit transferability, looked at each other, and...
2026 Energy Predictions: Batteries, AI Data Centers, and the Institutional Capital Shift
Jan 7, 2026
Behind-the-meter energy systems are entering a new phase—one defined by optimization, institutional investment, and state-level incentives filling federal gaps. Here's what energy decision-makers need to know heading into 2026. For the third time, Bill...
Beyond Roof Leases: How Leading CRE Owners Are Monetizing Solar
Dec 17, 2025
Insights from our recent webinar about monetizing solar and storage featuring Regency Centers, Kire Builders, and Ivy Energy. For years, commercial real estate owners interested in onsite solar have defaulted to the simplest path: lease your roof to a third-party...
How an Aging Grid, AI, and Electrification Are Impacting Energy Rates
Oct 22, 2025
The electricity landscape we’ve known for decades is experiencing what we’re calling a “perfect storm” of challenges. After two decades of flat energy demand, we’re witnessing a steep incline that’s colliding with a grid that was largely built in the 1960s and 70s....
The One Big Beautiful Bill: The Impact to Onsite Energy Projects
Jul 16, 2025
Despite widespread concerns that the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act" will devastate the onsite energy market, a deeper analysis reveals a fundamentally different story—one of opportunity disguised as disruption. Headlines focus on the acceleration of the solar tax credit...
New Features Update: Portfolios and User Permissions
Jun 25, 2025
We’ve rolled out several new platform features that enable efficient, nuanced management of large portfolios of sites within an organization where there are multiple different user types. With these updates, cross-functional teams can easily access certain portfolios,...
The Rising Cost of Electricity Explained
Apr 23, 2025
Media coverage constantly pits energy sources against each other—coal versus nuclear, gas versus renewables—in an endless tug-of-war. But this narrative misses a crucial reality: the fundamental challenge around the rising cost of electricity isn't how we generate it,...