More Room in a Household Budget
Affordable clean power can help reduce the energy burden on families, leaving more room for everyday essentials.
An invitation to energy companies and asset owners
Your Energy Can Change Lives
The project that no longer fits your portfolio still has important work to do. Donate a renewable energy asset and we put it to work, delivering affordable power and resilience to communities that need it.
From an energy assetto lasting community benefit.
501(c)(3) nonprofitDonations & bargain sales welcomeRenewable assets welcome worldwide
Operating today
- Operating solar capacity across our public projects
- >3 MW
- Low-income homes powered by zero-cost solar
- 300+
- Minimum energy savings delivered to Balance Fund customers
- 20% Minimum Savings
- Renewable projects developed by our founders
- $60M+
The reason behind the work
An Energy Bill Is Never Just a Number
It competes with groceries, transportation, and the cost of keeping a home safe and comfortable.
For a school or community organization, energy costs take resources away from the people they serve. We put renewable assets to work for more than electricity: every project we take on has a clear, measurable path to community benefit.
How we measure impactOutcomes we work toward
Power
Beyond the Meter
Every project we take on has its own community-benefit plan. These are the outcomes we evaluate, document, and report.
More Capacity for Essential Services
When a school or community organization spends less on energy, it may be able to direct more resources toward the people it serves.
More Resilience Where It Matters
Renewable generation and storage can support continuity of services when a project is shaped around local needs.
A different kind of legacy
You Built the Power.
Help Shape What It Powers Next
A smaller, aging, curtailed, or non-core project can demand attention out of proportion to its place in your portfolio. Donate solar, wind, hydro, battery storage, or other renewable assets to a nonprofit that operates them. We review every proposal on its own merits before any commitment.
An energy project can serve a place with a bigger mission.
Purpose, backed by a plan
From Asset to Impact
Stewardship takes technical, legal, financial, and community work. We make those questions visible before anyone commits to a transfer.
Tell Us About the Asset
Share its location, size, status, ownership, and your hopes for its next chapter.
Test the Opportunity
We examine condition, rights, obligations, operating needs, and a credible route to community benefit.
Shape a Responsible Transfer
Donation or bargain-sale terms, approvals, and stewardship arrangements are reviewed with the appropriate advisers.
Make the Benefit Visible
A viable project needs clear measures for energy performance and the people it is intended to serve.
Ways to take part
Make Your Next Move Count
We welcome a first conversation even if you do not yet know which transaction structure is appropriate.
For developers and owners
Explore a Project Transfer
Discuss donating a smaller or difficult-to-place renewable asset, or a bargain sale subject to legal, tax, and organizational review.
Explore legacy projectsFor communities and partners
Build Benefit Together
We build renewable generation and storage around affordability, resilience, and local priorities.
Explore our workPossibilities for impact
What an Asset Could Make Possible
A household possibility
More Room for Everyday Needs
Energy affordability could leave more of a family's budget for the essentials that make a home work.
A community possibility
Power for Places People Rely On
Renewable generation and storage could support the facilities that serve neighbors every day.
An asset possibility
A New Purpose for Existing Power
An eligible asset could become part of a carefully documented community-benefit plan.
An invitation to make an impact
Let Your Energy Do More
Tell us about the project. We review it and show you whether it has a responsible path to a new purpose.
Start the conversation