More than a MWh
The first and only solution delivering direct and verifiable social impact
100% of Social REC® revenue is dedicated to communities.
Turn your climate expenditures into visible and verifiable community engagement. With Social RECs®, your climate dollars turn into revenue for educators, cities, and historically excluded communties
Distributed generation solar is critical for climate resiliency, yet faces persistent policy barriers. We focus on renewables in the most challenging markets, serving the most vulnerable to climate change.
Support projects that need support
Highlight the ‘S’ in Corporate Social Responsibility
Join our Solar Stewards Marketplace to shop impactful projects and support Community Partners around the globe.
Genuine Storytelling
Megawatt hours that empower!
Membership in the Solar Stewards Marketplace creates authentic partnerships directly with Community Partners whose climate justice journeys serve to inspire us all!
Listen to our Climate Stewards Members
“We know that the impacts of climate change disproportionately affect underserved communities, including many communities of color, we are actively taking steps to reduce our environmental footprint and to respect the right to health and clean air. Salt Lake City understands the urgency of this work and we congratulate their staff for embracing innovative funding models.”
- Alison Colwell, Senior Director of ESG and Sustainability at Okta
Join the Solar Stewards Marketplace
Our Solar Stewards Marketplace hosts all of our Community Partners and Social REC® opportunities. As a member in the marketplace, you have access to projects with visible and verifiable community value.
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100% of Social REC® revenue is dedicated to our Community Partners!
100% of Social REC® revenue is dedicated to our Community Partners!
Our Solar Stewards Marketplace hosts a suite of solutions focused on economic inclusion.
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We’ve turned generic carbon reduction claims into a resource for historically excluded communities.
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Community Benefit Agreements hold so much promise, yet seem so inaccessible to the average community stakeholders. CommunityPACT helps communities PLAN, ACT, COMMIT, and TRACT CBAs!
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Many Community-serving solar applications lack a plan and funding for operations and maintenance, or O&M.
Our Solar Stewards Marketplace delivers a seamless solution for tracking the health and performance of solar assets ensuring maximum community and climate value
FAQs
What is a Solar Stewards Marketplace Membership?
Membership in our marketplace grants exclusive access to our vetted Community Partners and their projects all over the USA and world. Our Marketplace ensures our opportunities are legitimate and allows us to employ a familiar business model where given the nature of smaller, more impactful portfolios, a traditional REC broker model would not be viable nor appropriate.
What are the benefits of a Membership?
Membership in the Solar Stewards Marketplace not only allows for the administration of 100% of the Social REC® revenue dedicated to Community Partners, but also provides our Community Partners access to our suite of impactful tools to help draft and monitor community benefit agreements and ensure healthy solar production with solar monitoring.
Are Social RECs® just for solar energy?
Solar Stewards and Social RECs® support all renewable technologies through renewable energy markets. If it’s renewable energy serving a community, the MWh produced can become a Social REC® when verified by our Solar Stewards Marketplace.
Why a Membership?
Solar Stewards passes 100% of the Social REC® revenue to our Community Partners to facilitate solar development that delivers societal benefits. Solar Stewards requires a membership in order to perform the origination, aggregation, community engagement, project management, research and development, and marketing services that deliver these opportunities.
How long is the Membership for?
A membership is initially for one year, and reoccurs for the term of any active Social REC® commitments to allow Solar Stewards the resources to follow-up on the projects, impact reporting, and tell the story with the Community Partner.
What is the difference between a Social REC®, and an ‘impact REC’ or the like?
Social RECs® ensure communities directly benefit from renewable energy by centering economic inclusion and community agency. Many unverified ‘impact REC’ products charge a premium that is pocketed by a developer. Social impact that cannot be authenticated is a brand liability. A membership in the Solar Stewards Marketplace creates a model that supports ongoing reporting and genuine storytelling.