Multi-Family & Affordable Housing

We provide solar photovoltaic, solar + storage, & consultation services to help you best optimize your savings and meet your portfolio’s energy needs

How to get started

Contact us today for a review of your portfolio and we’ll arrange a no-cost consultation to show what options are financially and practically best suited for meeting your organization’s priorities.

Let us help your organization achieve its resiliency, LEED, BERDO, Passive House, or net-zero goals by providing cost-effective support for integrating solar projects of any size into existing buildings or new construction.

We offer no-commitment, industry-leading portfolio analysis to determine the solar capacity of your buildings at no cost for mission-aligned organizations.

Our goal is to provide industry-leading turnkey development services in our work with affordable and mixed-income housing developers, architects, and planners.

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Geneva Apartments - Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation

Case Studies

Portfolio analysis service

Receive a no-cost, no-pressure full portfolio analysis, which includes:

Design
We will create a preliminary solar layout for all eligible buildings.

Financial Review
We will discuss your team’s priorities and outline all of your financing options, including third-party financed solutions such as no-cost power purchase agreements and community solar.

Electricity Usage Review
We will look at every building’s electricity usage and develop a plan for how savings can be distributed across the organization.
Options include

-Using solar to offset on-site electricity usage behind common meters

-Sending excess electricity credits to other buildings in your portfolio

-Distributing credits to tenants or other partner organizations

Identify Barriers — we’ll check for potential barriers, including older roofs, aging electrical infrastructure, and potential utility side barriers

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Trinity Financial — Orient Heights Development | East Boston
Resonant developed a thorough analysis for this portfolio that included townhouses and larger 80+ unit developments. These projects were financed via a PPA at no cost to the owner.

Have new buildings under development?
Learn about our New Construction Practice

  • Connect us with your architect to maximize your building’s energy saving potential

  • Experience with PHIUS, Living Building Challenge, Net-Zero, BERDO, etc.

Lawrence Community Works + Lawrence Community Squash

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The Island Parkside Solar installation totals 181 kW-DC across 2 newly constructed multifamily housing buildings operated by Lawrence Community Works and a community squash center (Lawrence Community Squash) run by the nonprofit SquashBusters. These projects were completed in two phases as construction was completed on the 3 buildings. In addition to solar, the roof of Lawrence Community Squash also features a green roof, which is designed to support building cooling and reduce overall energy costs.

Each year, these solar arrays will produce enough energy to power 124 electric vehicles for a year. Together, these solar installations are expected to save the nonprofit owners more than $1.5 million in electricity savings over the next 25 years.

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