Clean energy procurement made easy and efficient
With the Copacity platform energy users can easily create and issue clean energy RFPs and energy providers can efficiently view and respond to these opportunities.
Reduce Costs. Save Time. Increase Clean Energy Opportunities.
The Copacity platform is the first of its kind platform that has taken into account all sides of the procurement process – energy users, project developers, and energy advisors – to align these interests and create an automated yet customized process that results in a truly efficient, effective, and economical RFP process.
Built on over 20 years of procurement experience, the Copacity platform is suited whether you are a private, public or nonprofit organization, and whether your seeking solar, wind, EV or storage solutions.
Energy Buyers
The Copacity platform makes generating your own expert clean energy RFPs simple and effective. Even though renewable procurement has complex layers, with Copacity all you have to do is set-up your profile and fill out simple forms. The platform generates your RFP for approval and then publishes across our vast network so you can quickly get detailed responses. And when responses come in, the platform will automatically generate detailed comparative analysis so you can undertake a review process on an “apples to apples” basis.
Renewable Energy Developers
The Copacity platform makes viewing and responding to clean energy opportunities simple, efficient and effective. Establish and account, upload company details and you’re ready to reply to endless RFPs. Copacity shortens your response times and ensures comparative accuracy across competitive responses in the review process. And standardization does not mean lack of customization. You always retain control and the ability to present all of your proposals with your own custom marketing and presentations.
Energy Advisors
The Copacity team has served as the external consultant, procuring hundreds of MW of clean energy projects across solar, wind, hydro, carport, battery storage and more. This experience and expertise led us to develop this platform and support energy advisors in providing additional value added services to and for their clients. Our platform will not only streamline the clean energy procurement process for you and your clients, but makes it more profitable too.
Market insight and solutions
As the renewable energy industry evolves, Copacity evolves with it and for you. The Copacity platform serves as your eyes and ears into the marketplace, keeping all parties up to date on the latest clean energy trends, policy changes and available incentives.
Who We Serve
MUNICIPALITIES
Today, more than ever, cities and towns are exploring how renewable energy can stabilize and reduce energy costs. With clean energy policies aligned across the federal, state and local level, municipalities have multiple options to maximize energy savings.
However, as if navigating the renewable energy market was not complex enough, public procurement and contracting provisions can further complicate the process.
The Copacity platform provides municipal managers with all the tools, communications, data and analysis to run approved public procurement processes for all your clean energy needs. And information can be shared across all stakeholders to ensure the most competitive and transparent process and decision.
Whether you seeking on-site solar options across your entire municipal portfolio, or remote net metering contract options, the Copacity platform provides your agency with the solutions it needs.
Frederick J. Presley Fmr. Town Manager, West Warwick, RI
EDUCATION
The Copacity platform was developed with complex procurements in mind, and provides your school with all the tools, communications, data and analysis to run competitive procurement process that align all of these interests. Our platform creates effective solar competitive bid templates to receive responses from qualified developers who have experience addressing these needs, and often removing the need for expensive external consultants.
Whether you seeking to purchase your solar facilities directly, or consider only those options that have no upfront investment, the Copacity platform simplifies the solar procurement process, minimizes disruptions to teaching and learning while ensuring and ensures your school selects the best project and vendor.
John Kelley Executive Director, Meeting Street School
AFFORDABLE HOUSING
The Copacity platform thrives in this market. Our platform has delivered solutions to many affordable housing organizations, including multiple Low Income Housing Tax Credit awards and innovative multi-agency collaborations. The Copacity platform provides your own staff or external architects, advisors and consultants with the tools needed to competitively procure projects and developers who can not only maximize these opportunities, but support funding and other applications that are critical for overall development project success.
James Comer Executive Director, Women’s Development Corporation
NON – PROFITS
However, non-profits have unique challenges in procuring solar energy as they typically don’t qualify for renewable energy tax incentives, often times don’t own their own facilities or have physical limitations on the amount of solar that can be installed, and are sometimes have greater perceived credit risk from private capital providers who finance renewable energy installations.
The Copacity has delivered renewable energy solutions for many non-profits. It’s ability to competitively procure projects tailored specifically to your organizations’ needs allows organizations to securing finance and incentives for non-profits looking to own their own clean energy systems, to structuring solar PPAs and solar leases for remote net metering renewable energy projects, all with zero money down.
The Copacity platform provides the detail and analysis needed to align the interests of your committees, boards, and donors. And through our independent and proprietary platform, Copacity identifies clean energy solutions that best meet the vision of the organization.
Jeanne Boyle Economic Development Director, Pawtucket, RI
PUBLIC HOUSING
The Copacity platform has successfully delivered renewable energy projects for PHAs, including the first ever PHA consortium for procuring renewable energy across multiple PHAs to deliver 100% clean energy. The Copacity procurement process can be tailored to meet the unique regulatory and administrative processes, especially regarding HUD’s Rate Reduction Initiative, ensuring that renewable energy projects benefit PHA operating budgets. Our customizable solar RFP templates streamline the solar energy bidding process, meet HUD requirements, and lead to successful projects that reduce your operating expenses without reducing your HUD calculated operating subsidy.
Stephen O’Rourke Executive Director, West Warwick Housing Authority
CORPORATIONS
Unfortunately, procuring renewable energy can be a complicated and difficult task requiring management to have in-house expertise and capacity, or use outside and costly consultants to decipher and compare renewable energy RFP bids, corporate Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs), and solar leases.
The Copacity renewable energy platform uses customizable renewable energy RFP templates to receive standardized solar RFP responses from experienced developers. Regardless of the renewable energy ownership model, our clients have all the information they need to confidently propose corporate renewable energy projects to corporate decision-makers.
Stephen O’Rourke Executive Director, West Warwick Housing Authority
COPACITY PLATFORM
Always Connected
The Copacity platform is fully automated and easy to use. However, if you’re not quite ready to migrate your clean energy projects to a digital platform yet, Copacity still can help you save money, meet your energy goals and connect you with the best people for each project.
Expert help is just a phone call, email or text away. And our founder, Julian, has 20 years of renewable energy experience and is more than happy to help you with anything!
