A new report by Clean Energy Group proposes bundling loans for resilient power projects, ¹ such as solar PV with battery storage, to get this clean energy market to scale. The report, Ramp Up Resilient Power Finance: Bundle Project Loans Through a Warehouse Facility to Achieve Scale, shows operators how to use an old finance tool, a warehouse credit facility, to assemble portfolios of loans for resilient power projects, which will protect vulnerable populations from power outages during severe weather events.

This report, Ramp Up Resilient Power Finance: Bundle Project Loans Through a Warehouse Facility to Achieve Scale, explores using this proven loan bundling approach to finance resilient power projects across the country, to move from financing of single projects to financing of many projects in a loan portfolio. The warehouse credit facility model has been used for other commercial and consumer loan obligations, such as mortgage lending, for decades. But it has not yet been used for these kind of clean energy infrastructure projects. This paper explains how this finance tool can be used develop community-scale “resilient power” projects that will keep the power on when the grid goes down.

The Clean Energy Financing report is available free of charge online.

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1. Resilient power, sometimes called “energy assurance,” is the ability to provide needed power, independent of the grid. Our electric grids are vulnerable to storms, tornadoes, wildfires and other disasters. The ability to generate electricity to power critical facilities and infrastructure during power outages from the grid is paramount in emergency planning.