Los Angeles, California
United States
https://cleanfi.com/
CleanFi is a free platform designed to lower the soft costs associated with those commercial building improvements that advance resiliency, environmental health, resource efficiency and resource independence. We help fund hundreds of project scopes that touch on every aspect of a building’s envelope and functionality.
CleanFi presents long-term financing solutions for anything that involves a commercial real estate properties:
- Building envelope (roofs, outside walls, windows and doors,..)
- Structural resiliency
- Resource efficiency (energy, water, airflow)
- Resource independence (renewable energy, storage, thermal,..)
- New transportation (EVcharging, H2 fueling,..)
- Internal air quality (heat pumps, HVAC, control,…)
- Hundreds of other improvements
Solar Conversations
In this Solar Conversation, SolarAcademy host Kerim Baran talks to Philippe Hartley of CleanFi about one of the major issues of the solar industry – the lack of a scaled solution for the function of financing small-to-medium sized commercial and industrial solar assets.
Learning in the Open Conversations
In this SolarAcademy Learning-in-the-Open Conversation, we reconnect with Philippe Hartley, a seasoned general and electrical contractor from California and the founder of CleanFi. Philippe passionately shares six compelling reasons why CleanFi is destined to be your go-to partner in Commercial and Industrial (C&I) project financing. He underscores the platform’s ability to finance any kind of project—be it solar installations, solar plus storage, EV charging stations, heat pumps, or even solar panel cleaning—and its applicability to a wide array of properties, including churches, public schools, healthcare facilities, industrial sites, mobile home parks, multifamily units, and even cannabis operations.
In this SolarAcademy Learning-in-the-Open Conversation, we hear from Philippe Hartley, a seasoned general and electrical contractor from California who led a solar installation company for a decade. Philippe candidly shares how the complexities of commercial and industrial (C&I) project financing nearly jeopardized his business, likening the process to a “dark, twisty maze” filled with uncertainties and obstacles that consume valuable time and resources. He introduces CleanFi, his innovative solution designed to illuminate the convoluted path of C&I financing for contractors.