Launches Innovative Funding Platform for Solar Developers

Las Vegas Nevada (Solar Power International trade show), San Francisco California, September 11, 2017 - Solar Power International, Foss & Company announces the launch of TaxEquity.com, a web platform designed to optimize the tax equity investment process for renewable energy developers.

Arranging financing for commercial and industrial solar projects is notoriously challenging, and getting to a term sheet with a qualified tax equity investor that can close is arguably the most difficult part of assembling the capital stack. There are only a handful of highly active tax equity investors, and the whole process can often seem cumbersome and confusing due to high variability in each project, intricacies of tax code, deal structure and interests of debt providers. Because of this, a considerable amount of due diligence must be conducted on each project, driving up costs and resulting in a slow evaluation process. These factors set a relatively high barrier to entry for developers; most professional tax equity investors wont work with developers with projects or portfolios less than 3 megawatts in size.

Foss Renewable Energy Partners Managing Director Alex Tiller said "The goal with TaxEquity.com is to allow more capital to flow to more renewable energy projects. We can achieve this by standardizing the way we interface with developers and evaluate their projects. Additionally, we will work with debt providers to generate standardized and preapproved documents that a developer can choose to use, which leads to a streamlined evaluation process. Combining the two previous steps with algorithm driven analyses, we hope to cut the time to terms sheet down to hours, rather than days." Tiller added that in the near future, they would like to find a way to fund projects as small as 100 kilowatts in size.

Renewable energy project developers can evaluate the system on the website (www.taxequity.com) and introduce themselves, execute a mutual nondisclosure agreement, and provide details about their projects. The more detailed the information that is provided, the faster the response time that can be expected.

About Foss & Company
Foss & Company is a national institutional investment management firm founded in 1983. The company has deployed over $5 Billion in tax credit equity from institutional investors including national insurance companies, financial institutions and large corporations. Foss provides its investors with a broad array of tax credit programs, combined with the most efficient implementation available in the tax credit marketplace. To date the company has focused on traditional affordable housing credits and federal and state historic credit programs. The company is now expanding its focus to include the renewable energy market through its new renewable energy tax credit investment fund, and through the project developer-focused web platform.