Portfolio Partner Profile
Sunwealth
Sunwealth Power Inc., a public benefit corporation founded in 2014, is a developer, aggregator and owner of small-scale commercial solar installations. The company’s mission is to “facilitate collaboration between communities, developers, and investors, and support successful, high-yield commercial solar projects that provide affordable clean energy and energy savings to power recipients, support jobs and revenues for local solar developers and installers and provide strong, stable returns to [their] investors.” Sunwealth’s model helps address the financing market gap by connecting community-based solar projects with investors. They collaborate with on-the-ground developers who help identify strong projects and work with community organizations from conception through installation.
Sunwealth Power’s 2019 Solar Impact Fund will finance a portfolio of up to 10MW of small-scale commercial solar projects ranging in size from 5 kW to 1 MW and situated across a mosaic of building types, including houses of worship, schools, nonprofit organizations, commercial office building and municipal buildings.
Sunwealth seeks to build a future of energy that is “decarbonized, decentralized and democratized.” Its target market is diverse renewable energy projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, strengthen local resilience and bring the benefits of renewable energy to under-served communities.
Since 2015, Sunwealth has installed over 9.5 MW of solar power through 115 solar installations on rooftops and open spaces across communities in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic region and California. The company’s portfolio will generate $16.5 million in lifetime energy savings for Sunwealth’s power purchasers, $22 million in revenues for local solar developers and installers and 328 lifetime person job years in “green jobs,” and will reduce lifetime carbon emissions by 224,000 metric tons.
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Featured Impact Story

Impact Story
A feeling of pride
To the passerby, the Whole Foods Market in Sudbury, MA looks like a typical suburban grocery store. But to electrical apprentice Raul Urzua, looking at this particular grocery store elicits a feeling of pride. Not because of what’s inside the store, but because of what’s on top of it.
Urzua is an installation partner on the CTEC Solar/127 Energy crew working to install Sunwealth’s 220-kW solar system on the roof of the Whole Foods Market. He’s a former chef and brings the attention to detail he learned in the kitchen to his work in solar.
“When a project is finished and the solar panels all line up, it’s beautiful and something to be proud of,” said Urzua. “It’s nice to know that I was part of a project that will be there for a long time.”
Urzua is right: the solar panels he’s installing have a lifetime of thirty years. Urzua, however, will move on to the next solar installation site, where he is just one of many people taking advantage of the solar boom by joining the fastest growing occupation in America.