Subject: beEdison Insight - Standardized Credit Assessments for Unrated Off-takers
From: "beEdison" <[email-masked]>
To: <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Mar 2015 13:21:20 -0400 (EDT)

March 2015 - Issue Headlines:

beEdison Launches Production Platform
beEdison a Finance for Resilience Finalist
Standardized Credit Assessments for Unrated off-takers
Platform Highlight - Observations
Upcoming events: meet with us!

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Standardize Operations | Assess Risks | Eliminate Inefficiences
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beEdison, the solar industry's premier cloud-based diligence, risk assessment, and
workflow platform is now operating its production version on Amazon Web Services's
reliable and secure IT platform. Over 135 MW of projects have already been entered
into the platform since production launch. If you are interested in a demo of beEdison,
or would like to register on the production platform please contact us [mailto:[email-masked]].
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In the spotlight: beEdison is a Finalist in the 2015 "Finance for Resilience" competition!

Finance for Resilience (FiRe) is an open and action-oriented competition platform
that collects, develops and helps implement powerful ideas to accelerate finance
 for clean energy, climate, sustainability and green growth. FiRe, which is run 
by Bloomberg New Energy Finance, focuses on interventions that are led primarily
 by the private sector, bear the potential of significant incremental finance and
can be implemented independently from the international policy process of climate
change.
This year beEdison, with the support of truSolar's working group members, submitted
an intervention titled: "Automating a Fico-like risk score for clean energy." The
submission was judged by a panel of renewable energy experts along with 51 other
 entries, and was selected as one of eight finalists to present at this year's "Bloomberg
Future of Energy Summit." beEdison's intervention is grounded in big-picture thinking,
and has at its core a sharply delineated focus: we must lower transactional soft
 costs for commercial clean energy projects and promote clean energy asset securitization
by scoring risks in a standardized way.

Read More... [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ngFIc8Vz72CW2kfBGm4t5qOjm27zheCdnu2LPZ-jFyEZ87qoPZdMKwf0faUiGTS-7nVCZNKSiuLpaCUeuJWfML5GOrUmnFD7QvVE0B4XT383RMwlVRUxn5vhAYIWQMP7LMjqcIPkF5z18ITLjLKXiyV6hZ2ylLYJVRulBN5au9NArNGZMuEZtudf_yi9QWZV5LVXn_JdyjrvYj9vi5JkpeeYquFbXkMNfFOWw5fd04iekrW0tTG9UMnBzSqFQwi_rFlniXsQQ1QeFRX7H2yN3lde51vWaajaeNqzpHq5sBeX4oVDoamnkOcMULhHAOuAbeU9wKS6qWUfDlt_CXdD3MW26KC_fkM8dfDdFwxIr9G1itVn6SIl16mUljLhD3ZtiZHF4VMZxJaBXn3dR7kRPA9P-pBC06q0JxFf5nHFnnvj3RAPGZu1qA==&c=ZGiSLl8wncUBtC1icCVHJP2Qe67SvnqrCNiZqC7ueNG8Omdmh8Ye_g==&ch=g9-ZwmrD5uyE1M4_G7UOLi2gULHb8E53Gjqx9a-bENZVD_X5R26rog==]
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Will standardized credit assessments for unrated off-takers unleash the potential
of solar in the non-residential space?
According to Bloomberg New Energy Finance, the United States deployed 1.2GW of commercial
solar in 2014. (1) This may sound like good news, but the graph to the right clearly
shows that in 2014, America's residential sector overtook the commercial sector 
for the first time in terms of annual PV capacity deployments. This development 
begs the question: what is preventing America's non-residential solar sector from
scaling at a faster rate, noting the country consumes more than twice as much electricity
in the commercial and industrial segments today as it does in residential?
In many respects, it is easier to deploy solar on the rooftops of homes than on 
commercial buildings. Residential off-takers have credit scores (FICO) that can 
be used by investors to determine payment risk. The segment has been largely "productized"
and lends itself to standardized contracts and workflow processes. Residential solar
companies close sales "on the spot" and without negotiating. Installation crews 
can drive to one home, install a system, then drive a few doors down and essentially
install the same system, with practically zero impact to grid stability, the environment
and other regulatory matters. Non-residential solar companies face nearly the opposite
on each of these issues. Their installers are rarely building the same type of system
or in the same zip code or city. Larger systems face interconnection and permitting
challenges that are highly bespoke. Every deal is a negotiation. Understandably 
so, the commercial segment is highly fragmented. Standardized contracts and uniform
methods for evaluating and rating development assets are only just now taking root.
And most importantly, there is no reliable, accepted, third-party method for scoring
unrated commercial credit risk. Until now.
Read More... [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ngFIc8Vz72CW2kfBGm4t5qOjm27zheCdnu2LPZ-jFyEZ87qoPZdMKwf0faUiGTS-MFL90pedRRnYN292Uw0OakwGqut_JLtZ-slZuXLODt_ajiGj01TBd7bQ4Q008O3KsGrh4X-BbfgiHIZDrw8-s32ViKKxv-toKOV6j31_25O_jHumSX-kUELuXwvmtehTOrNASaAPjrNC_O-YPOnyE90PADjXPKhIS0V8zaw1621WTgBcVhMY8QYA7dNxl5_PimOycGJBJ9zhxkkuSBcVKFr0GW-MGTcPhY8rVb4kbYgR60tDaL93OHaiIVDSyq_PM2B2Ox67eglvk448ovFjVgte-eBVZx8zImMJXF1YkB8J16sSn_mT1PW3FM6kcfkAydw-0MgumISYN7q14fJ3xCLo7blXY5RKXm6pzT9g3p7NeC-MB71_EkwPlYWkDd6g1g4GN6Z9og0vWwyCB-7KMHO5qd6iakmRYWS5u0oB0EsrkWDZBzGHzQ==&c=ZGiSLl8wncUBtC1icCVHJP2Qe67SvnqrCNiZqC7ueNG8Omdmh8Ye_g==&ch=g9-ZwmrD5uyE1M4_G7UOLi2gULHb8E53Gjqx9a-bENZVD_X5R26rog==]
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Platform Highlight - Observations

Worried you're missing a red flag during diligence? beEdison has the solution. The
platform automatically identifies outstanding risks to a project, provides recommendations
to address them, and lists the documents required to demonstrate risk mitigation.
The recommendations serve as a checklist for developers on the project's status 
toward NTP and towards readiness for presentation to investors. On the buyer's side
of the table, the recommendations support investors conducting pre-screen diligence
with the developer and in creating the Conditions Precedent to be used in a Letter
of Intent (LOI). By employing beEdison's recommendation engine, users spend less
 time navigating the obstacle course of project development and more time getting
their projects over the finish line.   To discover how beEdison can help you as 
a developer or investor, sign up for a demo today [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ngFIc8Vz72CW2kfBGm4t5qOjm27zheCdnu2LPZ-jFyEZ87qoPZdMK-iik3iV-z9KczpG3Uzfg6BAdwySo-cKcZezcGlExQv1DEYfBU3hgt90IgDSWJR8A3UrEBzaQ3jIhbY8DKxDioNxAdo78Cp9F1QeoFABdySdU_CtkaJg0iyHGBUjEzEO67atEFU_3u10iBfPuAttsrvJnl3gZmq7eauUb88zWGDGA3twMKu6gXa8YWvhVlb2H71aixTHFsUSVUs6E8JighluM99ZZejiZJ2qXKL3PQRrEXZKQBF9lrmjcynVlCgjvT1z9-UqXP7uUwTkurTpV5iW8qhBN8W5SkqgZWHgbMn0&c=ZGiSLl8wncUBtC1icCVHJP2Qe67SvnqrCNiZqC7ueNG8Omdmh8Ye_g==&ch=g9-ZwmrD5uyE1M4_G7UOLi2gULHb8E53Gjqx9a-bENZVD_X5R26rog==].
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Upcoming Events: Meet With Us!

beEdison's Chase Weir and Jeff Weiss will be attending BNEF's The Future of Energy
Summit [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ngFIc8Vz72CW2kfBGm4t5qOjm27zheCdnu2LPZ-jFyEZ87qoPZdMKwf0faUiGTS-8r1FSiox6uP7Mv2A4_GluljOO81MRLDF1rhdTf67pFvWIvMs2cr9IS5-GE4J-35OlPDziOD1UAQXRHTZCW0s1quz-EOzBRpBCnyestaOg1S_3gXZ12uBSVuU2W1bYAREVJ7MRIyoG86ZTFZlRnEb6ih6hVYLtf-0ZyMGz07ZJ05O3SmcF6OAjYYKb7Sa-0o2jWYA78MJnNrpyJWo9mcqM7e7Qb-mlSa2hlc424MGzoZVkJO2XJS46gI3DOhokS8fJWDpGr3S555Oq5uA7rzUHUJcOyUerGT_&c=ZGiSLl8wncUBtC1icCVHJP2Qe67SvnqrCNiZqC7ueNG8Omdmh8Ye_g==&ch=g9-ZwmrD5uyE1M4_G7UOLi2gULHb8E53Gjqx9a-bENZVD_X5R26rog==],
April 13 - 15, in New York City.

Chase will be presenting on Wednesday, April 15 during the 3:30PM Finance for Resilience
(FiRe) session. beEdison's submission, "Automating a Fico-like risk score for clean
energy," will be judged against 7 other finalists and the 2015 Finance for Resilience
(FiRe) winner will be selected.

Contact us  [mailto:[email-masked]]if you are attending The Future of Energy 
Summit [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ngFIc8Vz72CW2kfBGm4t5qOjm27zheCdnu2LPZ-jFyEZ87qoPZdMKwf0faUiGTS-8r1FSiox6uP7Mv2A4_GluljOO81MRLDF1rhdTf67pFvWIvMs2cr9IS5-GE4J-35OlPDziOD1UAQXRHTZCW0s1quz-EOzBRpBCnyestaOg1S_3gXZ12uBSVuU2W1bYAREVJ7MRIyoG86ZTFZlRnEb6ih6hVYLtf-0ZyMGz07ZJ05O3SmcF6OAjYYKb7Sa-0o2jWYA78MJnNrpyJWo9mcqM7e7Qb-mlSa2hlc424MGzoZVkJO2XJS46gI3DOhokS8fJWDpGr3S555Oq5uA7rzUHUJcOyUerGT_&c=ZGiSLl8wncUBtC1icCVHJP2Qe67SvnqrCNiZqC7ueNG8Omdmh8Ye_g==&ch=g9-ZwmrD5uyE1M4_G7UOLi2gULHb8E53Gjqx9a-bENZVD_X5R26rog==]
and would like to meet with Chase or Jeff.

Chase is attending Solar Power Generation Central America [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001ngFIc8Vz72CW2kfBGm4t5qOjm27zheCdnu2LPZ-jFyEZ87qoPZdMKwf0faUiGTS-_CiHwolhAmuzHIQqcKNN3OTyW1yW0ffmb_Kw-3-X5Lyifv7JtQoUvRFIOONJhcdFnHj0HT7nNGFW-8DLABQz9_Wi-8pngMCUmGuWA5zLHrQookO_rmxsgbxnTVNVePUxzEhxhytDGBtw9m4SzC7bg7R8zGk0opKZVMq5FqGqALr5n_VJkCEn6-dRHjYUAt1TihFFHsIr1dttKY28STfQrl948XEIzXiFFHwAYUAuay6AnvBLwx5rcTmEYiUgE8nhgR2q0qmPAJYdWl4I7bRKJPwnAREMDfQpoWOrCjhowzpbWkXSFtU0VycOtqMohfiYeoAmXha9_Wv6CQgav_YyEOnFeblRkCNgwwRnyv_oFZoJytEq7YpY5ILSzsXDFOHlII6BSUi39_0dnTS2_JpsWFyI2RTkOuymmpzOsYmTGbVroNBrtQdeCSWPzw4uNf4JoJwoH8e8DlM=&c=ZGiSLl8wncUBtC1icCVHJP2Qe67SvnqrCNiZqC7ueNG8Omdmh8Ye_g==&ch=g9-ZwmrD5uyE1M4_G7UOLi2gULHb8E53Gjqx9a-bENZVD_X5R26rog==]
in Panama March 25 - 27, 2015. If you would like to meet with him at the conference,
contact us [mailto:[email-masked]] now!
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