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Clean Power Finance,〔Kreamer, Nat (February 2012). ("A Marketplace for Residential Solar Financing Products Will Drive Solar". ) ''North American Clean Energy''.〕 headquartered in San Francisco, California, is a financial services and software company for the residential solar industry. Clean Power Finance operates the CPF Market, an online business-to-business platform that connects institutional investors and lenders with residential solar professionals who need solar finance products to grow their businesses.〔(Clean Power Finance Company Profile. ) Crunchbase.com.〕 Clean Power Finance provides the solar industry with CPF Tools, a solar sales, quoting and design software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solution: qualified residential solar channel partners access finance products through the software. Third-party investors create solar project finance funds; Clean Power Finance provides origination, underwriting and asset management services to the fund investors and markets investor capital to solar professionals as residential finance products, including solar leases and power purchase agreements (PPAs).〔Trabish, Herman (2 December 2011). ("Clean Power Finance Channels 1 Million Into Solar Every Day". ) ''Greentech Media''.〕 The company was founded in 2006 by Match.com founder and serial entrepreneur Gary Kremen, and for the first five years sold CPF Tools to solar installers and originators.〔Fehrenbacher, Katie (27 September 2011). ("Google invests $75M into Clean Power Finance solar fund". ) ''GigaOM''.〕 In early 2011, Nat Kreamer, a co-founder of SunRun, joined the company as CEO.〔Olson, Syanne (6 September 2011). ("Clean Power Finance closes US$25M investment from KPCB, names new CEO, three board members". ) ''PV-Tech.org''.〕 In April 2011, the company began making residential solar finance products available to qualified channel partners. Finance products allow installers to offer a variety of financing options to consumers who want less expensive solar electricity immediately without the hassle and expense of photovoltaic solar system ownership.〔Herndon, Andrew, and Levy, Ari (9 February 2012). ("Where the U.S. Solar Industry Is Shining". ) ''Bloomberg Businessweek''.〕 Clean Power Finance operates the largest network of solar professionals in the United States.〔Clean Power Finance and Integrys Energy Services (8 January 2014). ("Integrys Energy Services Partners with Clean Power Finance for First Residential Solar Investments". ) ''IntegrysEnergy.com''.〕〔Needham, Rick (27 September 2011). ("Taking in more sun with Clean Power Finance". ) ''Google Official Blog''.〕〔Clean Power Finance press release(11 March 2013). ("Clean Power Finance Partners Comprise up to 80 Percent of Major U.S. Residential Solar Companies". ) ''www.cleanpowerfinance.com''.〕 Clean Power Finance has raised more than a billion dollars in residential solar project financing, and currently manages more than half a billion dollars on behalf of fund investors, including Google Inc. ($75MM),〔Hargreaves, Steve (28 September 2011) ("Google expands its rooftop solar funding". ) ''CNNMoney''.〕 Kilowatt Financial ($250MM),〔Chernova, Yuliya (24 April 2014) ("Solar Finance Space Heats Up as Kilowatt Financial Gains Ground". ) ''WSJ.com''.〕 an unnamed utility holding company, and Integrys Energy Group subsidiary Integrys Energy Services〔Trabish, Herman (8 January 2014) ("Leading Utility Holding Company Integrys Moves Into Residential Solar". ) ''Greentechmedia.com''.〕 In 2011, the United States Department of Energy awarded Clean Power Finance a $3MM grant〔("Solar Projects to Reduce Non-Hardware Balance of System Costs". ) ''SunShot Initiative Website''.〕 as part of its SunShot Initiative to build a database and software tool to streamline solar permitting processes.〔Whitmore, Chris (16 September 2011). ("Clean Power Finance awarded SunShot grant by DOE". ) ''PV-Tech.org''.〕 In 2012, the DOE awarded Clean Power Finance two more grants. The first, for $500,000, supported development of an online marketplace for Operations and Maintenance (O&M) services on installed residential solar systems.〔("SunShot Incubator Projects". ) ''SunShot Initiative Website''.〕 The second, for $1 million, supports online tools for solar companies to connect to sell and install residential solar more efficiently.〔Shahan, Zachary (18 June 2012) ("Clean Power Finance Gets $1.5 Million to Reduce “Soft Costs” of Going Solar". ) ''Cleantechnica''.〕 The company currently operates in nine states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Jersey and New York.〔Meehan, Chris (6 February 2012). ("Clean Power Finance makes its TPOs available to installers in more states". ) ''CleanEnergyAuthority.com''.〕 Clean Power Finance is an active solar industry leader. CEO Nat Kreamer was named a White House Champion of Change in the Veterans in Clean Energy and Climate Security category〔("Nat Kreamer". ) ''White House Champions of Change Website''.〕 and was elected in May 2014 to serve as chairman of the board of directors at the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). Micah Myers, SVP of Corporate Development, is on the board of directors at the Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA).〔Solar Electric Power Association (22 October 2013). ( "SEPA Welcomes New Board Members". ) ''SEPA website''.〕 The company has played a leading role in helping traditional power companies invest in the residential DG solar market.〔Michael Copley (10 January 2014). ( "Solar industry welcomes deal bringing retail supplier into rooftop space". ) ''SNL Financial''.〕 ==DOE Projects== Clean Power Finance is working on four DOE-supported projects: the National Solar Permitting Database, an O&M marketplace for solar installations, a website to connect solar specialists,〔("Clean Power Finance Gets $1.5 Million to Reduce 'Soft Costs' of Going Solar" ) ''Cleantechnica.com''〕 and a Big Data project with the DOE's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to reduce customer acquisition costs.〔("$9 Million in New DOE Funding For 'Big Data' Analytics to Spur Deployment, Reduce Costs of Solar PV" ) ''Cleantechnica.com''.〕 #The National Solar Permitting Database (NSPD) is a free, online database of information related to solar permitting requirements in cities and counties around the U.S. The project's goal is to minimize the time and resources required to complete a solar permit, which can add significant costs and delays for solar installers.〔Clean Power Finance (19 December 2012). ("More than a Third of U.S. Solar Installers Say Permitting Requirements Limit Growth". ) ''www.cleanpowerfinance.com''.〕 In June 2013, Clean Power Finance debuted SolarPermit.org, which hosts the NSPD.〔Zachary Shahan (24 June 2013). ("Solar Permitting Website Gets Overhaul: More Data, New Features". ) ''Cleantechnica.com''.〕 #The second project involves O&M for solar installations. Ongoing system operations and maintenance is a concern that has kept potential solar project financiers out of the market.〔("S&P Opines on Securitizing Distributed Generation". )〕 The O&M Marketplace, currently in beta mode, would help system owners, particularly third-party financiers, identify and contract with O&M service providers.〔() ''SunShot Initiative Website''.〕 #The third project is an online tool to allow companies with expertise in selling and marketing solar to efficiently connect and work with companies that specialize in solar installation.〔() ''SunShot Initiative Website''.〕 #The fourth project is in collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado. Clean Power Finance is the only solar company involved in the project. It joins seven academic institutions to support NREL in developing a computational model that will analyze data from a network of U.S. solar installers and help identify new types of community- and regional-scale strategies that drive down solar financing and deployment costs.〔() ''SunShot Initiative Website''.〕 In 2012, Clean Power Finance completed a study of 273 solar installers in the top 12 states encompassing over 90% of residential solar market.〔("Nationwide Analysis of Solar Permitting and the Implications for Soft Costs" ) .〕 This is the largest known study of residential solar installers to date. The goal was to assess current challenges with solar permitting and identify specific opportunities for improvement among the various authorities having jurisdictions (AHJs) that hold approval power in the completion of solar projects. Key findings include: * *More than 1 in 3 installers avoid selling solar in an average of 3.5 jurisdictions because of associated permitting difficulties. * *Re-submissions of plans occur in 24% of all installations and rework in 16% of all installations, respectively. * *An average installation requires nearly 8 weeks to be processed by all relevant jurisdictions; staff times for installers, however, average just 14.25 hours. * *13% of installations see requirements change during the installation process. * *An average installation requires nearly 8 weeks to be processed by all relevant jurisdictions; staff times for installers, however, average just 14.25 hours. * *11% of installations encounter a situation where requirements for solar permitting have not even been set. * *Difficulties with solar permitting are costly to both AHJs and the solar businesses. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Clean Power Finance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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