Your solar exposure is growing. Your visibility into it isn't.
LCOE.ai is the financial intelligence layer for solar lenders and tax equity investors — continuous, independent oversight of every project on the book. The same operational data the borrower sees, the day they see it. Covenant drift, DSCR erosion, put value risk, and reporting variance surface immediately, not four months later.
DSCR oversight. Covenant intelligence. Early issue detection.
Independent, continuous loan-book visibility — so underperformance, covenant drift, and reporting variance surface the day they happen, not the quarter after. Examiner-ready documentation by default.
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Tax Equity Investors
Maximize put value. Verify sponsors. Automate the rest.
Continuous, independent monitoring of every project against sponsor reports — with put value optimization, automated data ingestion, and a streamlined asset management workflow built in.
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🏗️
Asset Owners & Sponsors also benefit
The same platform automates covenant tracking and quarterly reporting to lenders and tax equity investors — saving days of staff time, eliminating disputes at the source, and turning compliance into a competitive advantage. See how owners use LCOE.ai →
Why Now
Capital is committed. Visibility is not.
Project finance lenders hold over $250 billion in active solar exposure. Tax equity investors monetize $63 billion in tax credits annually. Both rely almost entirely on borrower or sponsor self-reporting — quarterly, in inconsistent formats, with material lag. The gap between what's on the loan agreement or LLCA and what's actually happening on the asset is now where institutional capital bleeds.
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Solar is the #1 driver of criticized loan growth
+40% YoY at major project finance banks in 2025. The problem isn't defaults — it's that deterioration is invisible until a borrower-prepared report arrives four to six months late.
02
8.6% average PV underperformance
Industry-mean miss against forecast (kWh Analytics). On a $2B loan book's revenue base, that's $25–50M in annual leakage exposure — invisible in quarterly reporting.
03
$63B in tax credits depend on operational performance
Year-five put value, flip thresholds, and ITC recapture all rest on continuous performance verification. Sponsor compliance certifications arrive too late to act on.
04
Subsidies are phasing out — operational discipline is everything
The OBBB Act phased out solar ITC/PTC for projects not under construction by July 4, 2026. Future loan performance will be earned by execution, not policy tailwinds. Every basis point now matters.
05
Borrower data is fragmented
Quarterly reports arrive as PDFs, spreadsheets, and portal exports — each in its own format. Manual ingestion is slow, error-prone, and never tied to actual monitoring data.
06
Regulators and credit committees demand more
Continuous covenant visibility is no longer optional. Examiners expect time-stamped, independent verification — not the next quarterly compliance certification from the borrower.
The Intelligence Layer
From operational data to capital decisions.
LCOE.ai sits between solar monitoring systems and the institutions that finance them — translating real-world asset behavior into the financial signals lenders, tax equity investors, and asset owners need to act on time.
Data Sources
📡
SCADA & Monitoring Platforms
Inverters · Weather · Work orders · 14+ integrations
📊
Borrower & Sponsor Reports
Any format · PDFs · Spreadsheets · Portal exports
📋
Deal Documents & Covenants
Loan agreements · LLCAs · PPAs · Pro formas
LCOE.ai
Intelligence Layer
01
Ingest
Pull live performance + report data, any format
02
Verify
Reconcile reports against independent operational data
03
Surface
Risk, variance, and triggers — to your decision makers
Financial Intelligence
Lender Intelligence →
DSCR oversight · Covenant intelligence · Early issue detection
Tax Equity Intelligence →
Put value · Sponsor verification · LP reporting
Economic Outcomes
The numbers lenders care about.
Operational tools save hours. The intelligence layer protects basis points — across an entire loan book's worth of solar exposure.
$25–50M
Annual leakage per $2B book
At 8.6% industry-mean PV underperformance on a $2B loan book's revenue base — the exposure LCOE.ai identifies and helps arrest.
8.6%
Avg PV underperformance
Industry-mean miss against forecast (kWh Analytics). Invisible in quarterly self-reporting — visible from day one with independent monitoring.
4–6 mo
Detection lag eliminated
The typical time between when performance deteriorates and when a borrower-prepared report surfaces it. LCOE.ai closes that gap to same-day.
40–60 hrs
Per quarter, per owner
Asset-owner staff time recovered from manual report compilation, format reconciliation, and counterparty follow-up — driving high voluntary adoption.
$250B
Active US Solar Lending
$8.9B
Q1 2026 Debt Financing
14+
Monitoring Integrations
279GW
US Solar Installed
$63B
Annual Tax Credit Flow
Independent visibility into the same data the operator sees
SolarEdge
SMA Sunny Portal
AlsoEnergy / PowerTrack
Locus Energy
eGauge
Enphase
SunPower
Trimark / Wattstor
Parasol
+ more
The Vision
The operating system for renewable infrastructure finance.
The next trillion dollars of energy infrastructure will require machine-scale portfolio intelligence. LCOE.ai is building the financial intelligence layer — the system every lender, tax equity investor, asset owner, insurer, and infrastructure fund relies on to translate operational reality into capital decisions, and to act on time to make a real impact.
See your book through the operational lens.
Connect with us to see how LCOE.ai maps live performance data to your loan covenants or tax equity structures. Most books are connected within 30 days.
About LCOE.ai
The financial intelligence layer for renewable infrastructure.
Built for project finance lenders, tax equity investors, and asset owners — connecting operational reality to debt covenants, LLCAs, and reporting obligations.
Our Story
Operational data is now financial infrastructure.
US solar crossed 279 GW of installed capacity. $63 billion in tax credit monetization flows through the asset base annually. Project finance lenders hold over $250 billion in active solar loans. The next trillion dollars of energy infrastructure will require something the industry hasn't had: a system that translates operational reality into capital decisions at machine scale.
We built LCOE.ai because monitoring platforms describe assets, financial models describe assumptions, and legal documents describe obligations — but none of them connect. The gap between operational reality and the underwriting model is where billions in value leak every year.
LCOE.ai is the financial intelligence layer that closes that gap. The platform parses every covenant, maps it to live performance data, and turns operational signals into the financial intelligence that lenders, tax equity investors, and asset owners need to act on time and make a real impact — before losses compound.
Company Snapshot
HeadquartersAtlanta, Georgia
Founded2024
AcceleratorCox Cleantech / gener8tor
Monitoring integrations14+
Customer baseLenders, tax equity, owners
US solar installed279 GW
US solar lending exposure$250B+ active
US tax credit monetization$63B annual
Our Mission
To translate operational data into financial intelligence — and give every lender, tax equity investor, and asset owner the ability to act on time to make a real impact.
Leadership
Solar finance. Enterprise software. AI infrastructure.
GF
Gregg Freishtat
Founder & CEO
Serial technology entrepreneur and clean energy investor with 4 successful exits across enterprise software, fintech, digital media, and clean energy. Named inventor on 18 patents. Founded Telet, VerticalOne (acquired by S1), Scribit (acquired by Outbrain), and Proficient Systems (acquired by LivePerson). Active in clean energy through Greenprint Capital (tax equity & finance) and Solar Inventions (solar technology IP licensing — C3/RBS architecture). Based in Atlanta. B.A. Philosophy, Boston University; J.D., University of Maryland.
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Tejus Parikh
CTO & Co-Founder
Engineering and AI infrastructure leader. Expert in data platform architecture, API integration at scale, and machine learning pipelines for high-volume time-series data. Deep experience building enterprise SaaS systems and leading engineering teams through the rigor of product-market fit and scale.
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Daryl Lu
SVP & Co-Founder
Product vision and company strategy. Deep background in enterprise software and AI platform development. Leads product architecture, the customer success motion, and roadmap across the platform's intelligence layers.
MB
Mark Bell
Board Member & Investor
Founder of Velo Solar. Active investor and board advisor across growth-stage technology and clean-energy businesses. Brings deep operational and commercial experience from the solar EPC and asset-management side of the industry — bridging the customer perspective with company strategy.
Backed By
A network purpose-built for cleantech scale.
Cox Cleantech Accelerator
Cox Enterprises & gener8tor partnership. Provides direct access to Atlanta's financial services ecosystem, corporate clean energy buyers, and the broader gener8tor cleantech portfolio. Convertible note financing in place.
Strategic Angel Investors
A targeted set of investors from solar industry operations, project finance, and enterprise SaaS — providing capital alongside the commercial relationships and customer validation that accelerate enterprise sales.
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30-day pilot
10 loans or projects, no commitment. See the platform in action with your own data.
↳ Project Finance & Commercial Lenders
Your solar exposure is growing. Your visibility into it isn't.
Solar is the #1 driver of criticized loan growth at major project finance banks. The problem isn't defaults — it's that deterioration is invisible until a borrower-prepared report lands four to six months late. LCOE.ai closes that gap, deployed against $250B in active US solar loans.
Market Context · Project Finance Solar
The Scale of the Problem
YoY growth in criticized solar loans+40% (2025)
US solar debt financing, Q1 2026$8.9B — decade high
Avg PV underperformance vs. forecast8.6% (kWh Analytics)
Annual economic leakage — US solar$2.5–5.5B
Typical detection lag4–6 months
LCOE.ai detectionDay of occurrence
Solar loans rarely go to zero. They bleed value through stale data, missed covenants, and late detection — long before default.
The Problem
The default-loss pool is millions. The performance-leakage pool is billions.
Lender credit losses after recoveries are bounded — $100–300M annually. The real exposure is the $2.5–5.5B in annual economic leakage across underperformance, debt stress, waivers, and late detection. By the time a borrower's quarterly report arrives, the damage is already months old.
"The borrower's Q2 report looked fine. LCOE.ai showed us actual production was 14% below model — for six months."
Annual Economic Leakage — US Solar
Lender credit losses (net of recoveries)$100–300M
Revenue lost to underperformance & equipment$1.0–3.0B
Tax equity & sponsor production shortfalls$500M–1.5B
Total annual economic leakage$2.5–5.5B
🗓️
4–6 month detection lag
Borrower-prepared quarterly reports arrive late. Covenant drift, DSCR erosion, and production shortfalls compound invisibly in the gap.
📂
No independent verification of borrower data
Each borrower submits in their own format. Manual ingestion is slow, error-prone, and not tied to actual performance data.
🔎
Covenants exist in documents, not systems
DSCR thresholds and reserve requirements live in the loan agreement — but no live system watches them against actual project performance.
What LCOE.ai Delivers
Continuous, independent, covenant-aware intelligence on every loan.
Direct integration with 14+ monitoring platforms. The same data the operator sees — at the same time, not at the next quarterly report.
i
Every covenant parsed and monitored.
LCOE.ai reads the loan agreement, LLCA, PPA, and pro forma. Every covenant is mapped to the live data stream that governs it. Breaches surface the day they occur.
DSCR, uptime, reserve covenants mapped to live data
Notification events triggered automatically
Cure period tracking from day one
Full loan document ingestion
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Live data — independent of the borrower.
Direct API integration with 14+ monitoring platforms. You see the same data the operator sees — independently, in real time.
14+ monitoring platform integrations
Production vs. P50/P90 model, updated daily
Borrower-reported vs. actual — side by side
Format-normalized regardless of submission type
iii
A watchlist that writes itself.
Every loan AI-ranked by emerging risk. Performance drift, DSCR trending, and covenant proximity surfaced continuously.
Portfolio-wide risk ranking, updated live
DSCR trending and covenant proximity alerts
Performance drift flagged before reports arrive
Early-action window — weeks before breach
iv
Examiner-ready by default.
A single, time-stamped source of record for every loan. Variance, covenant status, and risk classification continuously documented and exportable.
Timestamped covenant monitoring history
Borrower report vs. independent data record
Risk classification documentation
Export-ready for regulatory examination
Illustrative ROI
A regional bank with $2B in solar exposure.
At 8.6% average production underperformance — the industry mean — the leakage exposure on the revenue base alone is material. The cost to monitor it is less than 1 basis point of exposure protected.
$25–50M
Annual leakage
At 8.6% miss on a $2B book's revenue base — the exposure LCOE.ai identifies and helps arrest.
4–6 mo
Detection lag eliminated
Issues surface the day they occur — not the quarter after a borrower-prepared report.
< 1 bps
Cost of monitoring
Less than a single basis point of the exposure protected. ROI compounds across every loan in the book.
📋
Examiner-ready
Time-stamped source of record per loan. Exam prep becomes a download.
The Product
Your entire solar book. One view.
Continuous performance monitoring, independent borrower report verification, and covenant intelligence — all in one place.
LCOE.ai · Portfolio Monitor · Lender View
Lending Book
◀ Project Detail
Alerts & Actions
Audit Trail
click tabs · click rows to drill in
12
Projects Monitored
Real-time
2
Report Variances
vs. actual data
3
Covenant Watch
DSCR approaching
0
Missed Events
YTD
↓ Click any project to open full detail view
Project
Performance vs. Model
Borrower Report
Variance
DSCR (Live)
Covenant
Status
Pecos Solar I — TX
−14.2% vs P50
−2.1% reported
12.1% gap 🔴
1.21×
0.01× buffer
REVIEW
Sunbelt Portfolio — AZ
−6.8% vs P50
+0.4% reported
7.2% gap 🟡
1.27×
0.07× buffer
WATCH
Clearfield Solar — NV
+1.4% vs P50
+1.2% reported
0.2% gap ✓
1.44×
0.19× buffer
OK
Blue Ridge PV — GA
−0.8% vs P50
−0.9% reported
0.1% gap ✓
1.38×
0.18× buffer
OK
Pecos Solar I — West Texas REPORT VARIANCE
18.4 MW · Term loan · Origination: Mar 2022
Live Performance vs. Model
P50 annual production42,800 MWh
Actual YTD (annualized)36,720 MWh
Variance vs. P50−14.2%
Availability (live)88.4%
Degradation trend+0.8%/yr above norm
Borrower Report vs. Actual
Q2 borrower-reported41,920 MWh
Independent measured36,720 MWh
Variance5,200 MWh · 12.4%
DSCR per borrower1.31×
DSCR per actual data1.21×
⚠ Borrower-reported DSCR masks actual covenant proximity.
Covenant Status (Live)
Min DSCR covenant1.20×
Actual DSCR1.21× — 0.01× buffer
Notification triggerActive — Day 6
Cure period remaining24 days
Reserve fund68% funded
Sunbelt Portfolio — Arizona WATCH
24.1 MW · Construction-to-perm
Performance vs. Model
Actual vs. P50 (YTD)−6.8%
Borrower-reported+0.4%
Gap7.2% — under review
DSCR (live)1.27× — 0.07× buffer
Performance trending below model. Watch closely.
Covenant Status
Min DSCR1.20×
Reserve fund68% funded
Notification triggerNot triggered
Recommended action30-day watch
Clearfield Solar — Nevada COMPLIANT
31.2 MW · Term loan
Performance vs. Model
Actual vs. P50+1.4%
Borrower-reported+1.2% (verified)
Availability97.8%
DSCR1.44× — 0.19× buffer
Performance above model. No action required.
Covenant Status
Min DSCR1.25×
Current DSCR1.44×
Reserve fundFully funded
Blue Ridge PV — Georgia COMPLIANT
12.6 MW · Term loan
Performance vs. Model
Actual vs. P50−0.8%
Borrower-reported−0.9% (verified)
Availability96.2%
DSCR1.38× — 0.18× buffer
Performing in line with model. No flags.
Covenant Status
Min DSCR1.20×
Reserve fundFully funded
Next reviewRoutine
Active Alerts & Recommended Actions
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Pecos Solar I — Borrower Report Variance + DSCR Risk
12.4% reporting variance vs. independent data. Actual DSCR 0.01× from breach. Formal cure plan required.
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Sunbelt Portfolio — Trending Below Model
6.8% below P50 YTD. 7.2% reporting gap under review. Monitor 30 days.
✅
10 Projects — Verified & Compliant
Independent data matches borrower reporting within 0.5%. All covenants within parameters.
Audit Trail
Date
Project
Event
Independent
Borrower Report
Action
Jun 30
Pecos Solar I
Q2 variance flagged
36,720 MWh
41,920 MWh
Alert sent
Jun 10
Pecos Solar I
DSCR crossed 1.25×
1.21×
1.31×
Notification triggered
Jun 8
Sunbelt
Reserve shortfall
Live
—
Watch alert
Apr 1
All Projects
Q1 reports received
12 projects
11 verified · 1 flagged
Variance noted
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Hi — I'm your LCOE.ai assistant. Ask me about covenant proximity, borrower reporting variance, DSCR trends, and risk classification across your loan book.
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What Our Customers Say
"What LCOE.ai has built is a genuinely new category of tool. The depth of contract intelligence — connecting live performance data directly to O&M obligations, PPA terms, and lender covenants in real time — gives our team a quality of visibility we simply didn't have before. Indispensable for anyone with contractual exposure across a solar book."
MB
Mark Bell
Founder
Velo Solar
30-day pilot. 10 loans. No commitment.
We'll connect to your existing monitoring data and map your covenant package. Most books are live within 30 days.
↳ Asset Owners & Sponsors
Stay current on every covenant. Automate every report.
Every loan agreement, LLCA, and PPA carries legal obligations that drift quietly. Every lender and tax equity investor wants quarterly reports in their own format. LCOE.ai tracks every covenant continuously and generates every reporting package automatically — built from your own monitoring data, self-audited before submission.
LCOE.ai · Asset Owner View · Compliance Hub
Portfolio Compliance Snapshot — 14 Projects
Active covenants tracked87 covenants
All covenants currently within parameters82 of 87
Covenants on watch4 — DSCR proximity
Covenant breaches1 — active cure
Lender reports — 90% auto-built8 of 8 Q2 ready
Tax equity reports — 90% auto-built6 of 6 Q2 ready
S-REC production tracked YTD28,640 S-RECs
Staff hours saved this quarter52 hours
All covenants self-audited against actual performance data. 14 quarterly reporting packages ~90% pre-built and ready for review.
The Problem
Every quarter, the same scramble.
Asset owners and sponsors sit at the center of every solar finance structure — and carry the operational burden of proving compliance to every counterparty. Loan agreements, LLCAs, PPAs, O&M contracts: each with its own covenants, reporting cadence, and format requirements. The cost isn't just time. It's the risk of getting it wrong.
"We knew we were operationally fine. But assembling the package for the lender each quarter — across 12 projects, 4 banks, 2 tax equity partners — took our team three full weeks."
📋
Covenants drift quietly
DSCR proximity, reserve requirements, uptime guarantees, ITC recapture conditions — dozens of obligations per project, monitored manually if at all.
📄
Every counterparty wants its own format
Lenders want their template. Tax equity wants its template. Internal investors want theirs. Same data, four different packages, every quarter.
⚠️
Inconsistencies become disputes
Financial reps that don't match monitoring data. Covenant certifications that don't match performance reality. Each inconsistency is an entry point for a counterparty challenge.
⏱️
Days of manual work, every cycle
40–60 hours per quarter of staff time on reporting and reconciliation — time that should be spent operating the assets, not formatting spreadsheets.
What LCOE.ai Delivers
Continuous compliance. 90% automated reporting. Zero scramble.
LCOE.ai parses every loan agreement, LLCA, PPA, O&M contract, and S-REC program — maps every covenant and obligation to your live monitoring data — and generates ~90% of every counterparty report automatically. Your team reviews and signs off on the last 10%, not the first 100%.
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Every covenant tracked. Always current.
The platform reads every legal agreement in your stack. Each covenant is mapped to the live data that governs it. Cure windows, notification triggers, and proximity warnings surface before they become problems.
Full document ingestion — loans, LLCAs, PPAs, O&M
Every DSCR, uptime, reserve, ITC covenant mapped
Proximity alerts before breach
Cure window tracking from day one
ii
Reporting packages 90% automated.
Every quarterly package — for every lender, every tax equity investor, every internal investor — pre-built from the same source data, in each counterparty's required format. Your team focuses on the final review and exception language — not the data assembly.
Lender reporting packages — by lender format
Tax equity packages — by investor template
Internal investor & LP reports
Final 10%: narrative, sign-off, exception language
iii
Self-audited at the source.
Financial statements, covenant representations, and actual performance data are cross-checked automatically before submission. Inconsistencies are flagged to you first — not to the lender.
Financials reconciled against performance data
Covenant reps cross-checked against operational reality
Variances surfaced internally — before counterparties see them
Dispute risk eliminated at the source
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S-REC tracking and reporting, automated.
Every state's S-REC program has its own production tracking, certification, attestation, and reporting cadence. LCOE.ai automates the whole loop — tracking S-REC generation, managing certification windows, and producing the program-specific reports each registry requires.
Per-state S-REC program rules ingested
Real-time production tracking against eligible MWh
Continuous covenant tracking, auto-generated counterparty packages, and self-audit at the source — across every project, every lender, every tax equity investor.
Q2 lender package90% auto-built · ready for review
Q2 tax equity package90% auto-built · ready for review
S-REC registry (ERCOT REC)3,060 certified YTD
Cure plan draftIn review
Recommended: submit cure plan within 5 business days. Performance gap traced to String 14 inverter degradation — O&M repair scheduled.
Sunbelt Portfolio — Arizona WATCH
24.1 MW · 9 covenants · 1 counterparty
Lender Covenants — Pacific Coast Bank
DSCR min 1.20×1.27× · 0.07× buffer
Reserve fund 100%68% · $240K shortfall
Uptime ≥ 95%96.1%
Insurance currentVerified
Reserve fund top-up recommended within 22 days to avoid notification trigger.
Performance & Reporting
Actual vs. P50 (YTD)−6.8%
DSCR (live)1.27×
Q2 lender package90% auto-built
S-REC registry (WREGIS)4,820 certified YTD
Clearfield Solar — Nevada COMPLIANT
31.2 MW · 8 covenants · 2 counterparties
All Covenants Current
Mountain Bank · DSCR min 1.25×1.44×
Mountain Bank · Reserve fundFully funded
BlueSky TE · ITC recaptureAll current
BlueSky TE · Flip thresholdOn track Q3 2027
No action required. Quarterly packages ready for sign-off.
Performance & Reporting
Actual vs. P50+1.4%
Availability97.8%
Q2 lender package90% auto-built
Q2 tax equity package90% auto-built
S-REC registry (NV REC)5,140 certified YTD
Blue Ridge PV — Georgia COMPLIANT
12.6 MW · 6 covenants · 1 counterparty
Lender Covenants — Southeast National
DSCR min 1.20×1.38×
Uptime ≥ 95%97.4%
Reserve fund 100%Fully funded
Annual O&M reportingSubmitted
All clear. Routine quarterly review.
Performance & Reporting
Actual vs. P50−0.8%
Availability96.2%
Q2 lender package90% auto-built
S-REC registry (PJM-GATS)2,180 certified YTD
Q2 2026 Reporting Status — ~90% Auto-Built
🏦 Lender Reporting Packages
8 of 8 ready for review · 90% pre-built · Final 10% is sign-off & narrative
✓ First Texas Bank — Pecos Solar I
✓ Pacific Coast Bank — Sunbelt Portfolio
✓ Mountain Bank — Clearfield Solar
✓ Southeast National — Blue Ridge PV + 4 more
💼 Tax Equity Reporting Packages
6 of 6 ready for review · 90% pre-built · Final 10% is sign-off & narrative
✓ Greenprint TE — Pecos Solar I
✓ BlueSky TE Fund — Clearfield Solar
✓ Coastal TE Partners — Coastal PV
✓ Ironwood Capital — Ironwood Solar + 2 more
All 14 quarterly packages auto-built from the same source data. Self-audited. Ready for internal review and submission.
S-REC Generation, Certification & Reporting
28,640
S-RECs Generated YTD
Across 14 projects
26,820
Certified
93.6% rate
1,420
Pending Attestation
3 registries
$1.84M
Est. Revenue YTD
Market-tracked
Project
Registry
YTD Generated
Certified
Pending
Status
Blue Ridge PV — GA
PJM-GATS
2,180 MWh
2,180
0
CURRENT
Coastal PV — CA
WREGIS
3,940 MWh
3,940
0
CURRENT
Clearfield Solar — NV
NV REC
5,140 MWh
5,140
0
CURRENT
Sunbelt Portfolio — AZ
WREGIS
4,820 MWh
3,400
1,420
ATTEST
Pecos Solar I — TX
ERCOT REC
3,060 MWh
3,060
0
CURRENT
Ironwood Solar — AZ
WREGIS
2,840 MWh
2,840
0
CURRENT
1,420 S-RECs awaiting attestation in WREGIS (Sunbelt). Workflow auto-generated — submit by Aug 15.
Q2 Self-Audit Findings — Pre-Submission
🔴
Pecos Solar I — Financial Rep Inconsistency
Draft Q2 financials show DSCR of 1.31× — actual independent data shows 1.21×. Reconcile before submission to avoid covenant dispute.
🟡
Sunbelt Portfolio — Reserve Fund Status
Reserve at 68% of required. Covenant requires 100% by quarter-end. Cure window: 22 days. Notify Pacific Coast Bank proactively.
✅
12 Reports — Self-Audit Clean
Financials, covenant reps, and performance data all reconciled. No inconsistencies detected. Ready for submission.
Asset Owner Time Recovered — Manual vs. LCOE.ai
Task
Manual
With LCOE.ai
Saved Per Quarter
Lender quarterly package — per loan
8–12 hrs
90% auto-built · 1 hr review
~7 hrs
Tax equity package — per investor
6–10 hrs
90% auto-built · 1 hr review
~6 hrs
S-REC registry reporting
Per-registry manual
Automated · workflow surface
~4 hrs/qtr
Covenant compliance check
Manual, per project
Continuous · live
Eliminates risk
Financial vs. performance reconciliation
Manual spreadsheet
Self-audit automatic
Dispute prevention
Counterparty follow-up Q&A
Reactive
Proactive · pre-flagged
~8 hrs/qtr
40–60 hours of staff time recovered per quarter on a 14-project portfolio — and inconsistencies caught before they become disputes.
Why Asset Owners Adopt LCOE.ai
Three reasons. All compounding.
📋
Stay current on every covenant
Every DSCR threshold, every reserve requirement, every uptime guarantee — tracked continuously, flagged before breach, documented for cure.
📤
Automate every counterparty report
Lender packages and tax equity packages auto-generated in each counterparty's required format. No manual assembly. No format reconciliation.
🛡️
Prevent disputes at the source
Financial reps, covenant certifications, and performance data all reconciled before submission. Inconsistencies caught internally — not by the lender.
Stop scrambling at quarter-end.
Connect with us to map your existing covenants and counterparty reporting requirements. Most portfolios are live within 30 days.
↳ Tax Equity Investors
Maximize put value while you still can.
Most tax equity investors have no independent view of asset performance — only what sponsors choose to report. By the time discrepancies surface in compliance certifications, the operational fact pattern is already months old, and the put value impact is locked in. LCOE.ai gives you continuous monitoring, sponsor data ingestion in any format, and a streamlined asset management workflow that protects put value across your entire fund — before it's too late to act.
LCOE.ai · Fund III · Tax Equity Dashboard
Fund Snapshot — 8 Projects
Sponsor-reported production (YTD)+2.1% vs. model
Independent verification (YTD)−8.4% vs. model
Sponsor reporting variance flagged2 projects
Put right trigger proximity1 project — 60 days
Estimated put value preserved$4.2M
Asset manager hours saved (QTD)68 hours
2 projects show material variance vs. sponsor reporting. Put right trigger tracked with 60-day advance notice.
The Problem
You're managing a fund. Your tools are managing files.
Tax equity investors hold the most exposure to operational reality of any capital provider in solar — yet have the least direct visibility into it. Quarterly sponsor reports arrive in every possible format, are never independently verified, and asset management teams burn days reconciling them instead of optimizing put value.
"We found a material production discrepancy in the Q2 sponsor report — six months after the deviation started. By then the put value impact was already locked in."
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Sponsor reports arrive in every format
PDFs, spreadsheets, portal exports — each sponsor submits differently. Manual ingestion is slow, error-prone, and never tied to actual monitoring data.
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No independent verification of performance
You're underwriting put value against sponsor self-reporting. By the time discrepancies surface in compliance certifications, the operational fact pattern is already months old.
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Put value erodes invisibly
Underperformance, missed cure periods, and unaddressed sponsor accountability all reduce year-five terminal value. Without continuous monitoring, the problems are only visible in retrospect.
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Asset management can't scale
Asset managers spend 60–80 hours per quarter on manual report compilation, format reconciliation, and sponsor follow-up — time that should be spent optimizing fund outcomes.
LCOE.ai connects directly to project monitoring systems — independent of sponsor reporting — and gives your asset management team a single workflow that protects put value across the entire fund.
Layer 01
Continuous Performance Monitoring
Live production data from every project in your fund — independent of what sponsors choose to report, refreshed continuously.
Direct monitoring platform access
Production vs. underwriting model
Availability & equipment health tracking
Variance vs. sponsor reporting
Layer 02
Put Value Optimization
Continuous tracking of every operational signal that affects year-five terminal value — with cure window visibility and sponsor accountability built in.
Put right trigger proximity tracking
Flip threshold monitoring
Sponsor cure period status
Terminal value preservation modeling
Layer 03
Sponsor Data Ingestion
Quarterly sponsor reports automatically ingested in any format — PDFs, spreadsheets, portal exports — normalized and reconciled against live operational data.
Any-format report ingestion
Automatic data normalization
Live data reconciliation
Variance flagging & audit trail
Layer 04
Streamlined Asset Management
A single workflow layer that replaces spreadsheet assembly, email chains, and manual sponsor tracking across your fund.
Single-view fund dashboard
Exception-driven alerts
Sponsor communication & cure period log
60–80 hrs/quarter recovered per fund
The Product
Independent. Verified. Automated.
From sponsor verification to ITC compliance to LP reporting — your fund intelligence layer, fully automated.
LCOE.ai · Fund III · Tax Equity Intelligence
Sponsor Verification
◀ Project Detail
LLCA & Put Rights
LP Reporting
Time Savings
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Projects Tracked
Continuous
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Verification Flags
Material variance
10.5%
Max Variance Found
Desert Sun IV
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Verified
Within tolerance
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Project
Sponsor-Reported
Independent
Variance
Status
Desert Sun IV — TX
+3.2%
−7.3%
−10.5%
FLAG
Ironwood Solar — AZ
+1.8%
−2.1%
−3.9%
REVIEW
Coastal PV — CA
+0.4%
+0.2%
−0.2%
VERIFIED
Blue Ridge — GA
−1.1%
−0.9%
+0.2%
VERIFIED
Desert Sun IV — West Texas PUT TRIGGER PROXIMITY
52 MW · Sponsor: Sunpath Holdings · TE close: Mar 2021 · Year 5 put: Mar 2026
Sponsor Report vs. Actual
Sponsor Q2 reported+3.2% vs. model
Independent measured−7.3% vs. model
Variance10.5%
Underperformance window18 months
Production drop driver3 inverters offline
LLCA Trigger Status
Underwriting P5098,400 MWh/yr
Current run-rate91,210 MWh/yr
Put trigger threshold−10% for 24 mo
Time to trigger~60 days
Estimated put value$4.2M preserved
Recommended Actions
1. Engage Sunpath Holdings within 5 days. Cure conversation in next 30 days, before sponsor cure period closes.
2. Prepare put right exercise documentation as a parallel track.
3. Yield-to-flip impact at trigger: −14 bps. Preserved put value: $4.2M.
Ironwood Solar — Arizona REVIEW
34 MW · Sponsor: Ironwood Capital · TE close: Sep 2022
Sponsor Report vs. Actual
Sponsor Q2 reported+1.8%
Independent measured−2.1%
Variance3.9%
Trend directionWidening 2 quarters
Schedule sponsor review call. Variance not yet material but trend warrants clarification.
Sponsor reporting accurate within tolerance. No action required.
LLCA Status
PerformanceOn model
All triggersNot approaching
Sponsor accountabilityStrong
Blue Ridge — Georgia VERIFIED
12.6 MW · Sponsor: Velo Solar · TE close: Apr 2024
Sponsor Report vs. Actual
Sponsor reported−1.1%
Independent−0.9%
Variance+0.2%
Minor underperformance consistent with weather. Sponsor reporting accurate.
LLCA Status
All conditionsCurrent
Flip thresholdOn track
Desert Sun IV — LLCA Status
Underwriting P5048,200 MWh/yr
Current run-rate44,620 MWh/yr
Underperformance−7.4% (18 mo)
Put trigger threshold−10% for 24 mo
TrajectoryTrigger in ~60 days
Estimated put value$4.2M preserved
Portfolio LLCA Summary
Flip threshold — Project 2On track Q3 2027
Flip threshold — Project 5Delayed ~4 months
Sponsor cure active0 projects
Yield-to-flip impact−14 bps
Engage Desert Sun IV sponsor now. 60-day window for cure or exercise.
Automated LP & Fund Reporting
📊 Quarterly LP Report
Independent production · LLCA status · Verification summary · Yield-to-flip
Auto-generated · Q2 sent Jul 1
🔔 LLCA Trigger Alert
Real-time notification when put right or flip thresholds approach
1 active — Desert Sun IV
🔍 Verification Report
Sponsor submissions ingested any format · Compared against independent data
2 variances this quarter
💼 Fund Manager Summary
Portfolio performance · LLCA status · Risk flags · Single format
Quarterly · On-demand
Asset Manager Time Savings — Manual vs. LCOE.ai
Task
Manual
With LCOE.ai
Saved
Quarterly LP report compilation
4–6 days
Automated
~5 days/qtr
Sponsor production verification
Manual — if done
Continuous
Eliminates risk
LLCA trigger monitoring
Quarterly cert
Real-time
60-day advance
Sponsor report ingestion
Manual per format
Auto-normalized
Eliminates risk
Portfolio performance summary
2–3 days/qtr
On-demand
~10 days/yr
60–80 hours of asset manager time saved per quarter per fund — redirected from data gathering to portfolio decisions.
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What You Get
Continuous. Independent. Automated.
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Continuous Performance Monitoring
Live production data from every project in your fund — independent of sponsor reporting, refreshed in real time.
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Put Value Optimization
Put right triggers, flip thresholds, and cure period status tracked continuously — so terminal value is protected throughout the hold period.
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Automated Sponsor Data Ingestion
Quarterly reports auto-ingested in any format. Normalized, reconciled with live data, and variances flagged automatically.
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Automated LP Reporting
Fund and LP reports generated from live, verified performance data — no manual compilation, no version risk.
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Asset Manager Time Recovery
Redirect 60–80 hours per quarter from manual data work to fund decisions and sponsor accountability.
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Sponsor Accountability Log
Full performance, communication, and cure period history — timestamped and ready at year-five put.
What Our Customers Say
"The insight LCOE.ai provides into conformance with tax equity covenants — and specifically how to identify and remediate issues to maximize terminal value at the year-five put — is beyond anything current systems or platforms offer. The tool the market has been missing."
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Peter De'Fazio
Managing Director
Greenprint Capital
See every project in your fund — clearly.
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