Banyan Infrastructure

We're thrilled to unveil our latest enhancements in our Q2 2024 Product Release, designed to elevate your experience with improved data integrations, additional loan support, new dashboards and usability features. Here's what's new: 🔗 Improved Data Integration: Thanks to new Integration Partnerships with Derapi and Merge, Banyan can seamlessly integrate Distributed Energy Resources system data and popular CRM and Accounting data into our platform. This allows for a unified financial and performance data into one solution. 📊 Enhanced Dashboards: surface actionable insights with our new KPI Dashboard, Reporting and Covenants Dashboard, and To-do lists. This provides enhanced visibility into portfolio health and obligations, empowering informed decisions. 📑 Streamlined Loan Applications: Intake loan applications from the public with a streamlined intake portal, ensuring efficient processing and improved borrower experience. 🏡 Dedicated Residential Loan Support: Gain insights with a dedicated view featuring tailored metrics, enhancing decision-making for residential loans 🤝 Extended Counterparty Access: Facilitate smoother collaboration on reporting and obligations with document sharing, approvals and collaboration tools in a convenient external counterparty portal 🎯 Usability Enhancements: Enjoy a more intuitive experience with advanced filtering options and improved workflow automation, optimizing efficiency across your operations. Learn more about our latest product release here: https://lnkd.in/gK3qkjjT

The $27B Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund is a game-changer for clean energy, but it's not without challenges. Many lenders are new to green financing, making standardization and digital infrastructure crucial for success. This is a HUGE opportunity for Wall Street and community lenders to collaborate and drive a thriving green lending ecosystem that benefits everyone. Check out the latest article from Latitude Media: An insider's guide to the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund - with $150 billion potential investment on the line, here’s what’s needed next according to Banyan Infrastructure. Colin Harris, executive director of advisory services at Banyan, stated "Standardization is key to the overall success of the GGRF program. Standardizing best practices will promote: Consistency, which is necessary to ensure fair use of funds and to speed deployment into communities; Transparency, which is necessary for portfolio management and evaluation by auditors; and Aggregation, which is necessary for stakeholder reporting and eventual recapitalization by a capital markets’ participant." Read more here 👇 https://hubs.la/Q02GDYCn0 #GGRF #cleanenergy #greenfinance #sustainability #projectfinance

The need to scale sustainable infrastructure investments is urgent. Yet, outdated tools and manual processes are holding us back. It's time to break free from traditional barriers and embrace a more efficient future. Learn how Banyan Infrastructure can streamline operations, reduce costs, and accelerate the deployment of capital into sustainable projects. https://hubs.la/Q02Ghyy40 #sustainableinfrastructure #climatetech #fintech #sustainability #greenlending #projectfinance

Green lenders face a growing challenge: How will they prove the GGRF is actually working and impacting local communities? GGRF will require lots of federal reporting; tech, clarity, and collaboration are key to success - Read more https://hubs.la/Q02Ff_kR0 #GGRF #GreenBank #GreenLending #ProjectFinance

Tired of dealing with disjointed data and fragmented systems in project finance? It's time to switch to a Single Source of Truth for your assets, portfolio, and fund. Having all your information in one centralized location is no longer a luxury—it's a necessity in today's fast-paced industry. Implementing a digital infrastructure can streamline your workflow, improve accuracy, and ultimately increase your bottom line. Don't let outdated systems and processes hold you back any longer. Learn how to benefit from a Single Source of Truth and take your project finance game to the next level. https://hubs.la/Q02F8X8z0 #ProjectFinance #SingleSourceofTruth #DigitalInfrastrucure #DataManagement #RewnewableEnergy #SustainableInfrastructure

Project Finance Metrics 101: We cover two essential metrics for understanding a project's financial performance and risk profile: Cumulative Loss Rates and Loss Rates. These metrics provide valuable insights into the creditworthiness and financial stability of a project over time. Learn more https://hubs.la/Q02DW9Cp0

2023 was a record year for renewable energy deployments. Global annual renewable capacity reached 510 gigawatts, marking a 50% increase from 2022 with the fastest growth rate in 20 years. Capacity is expected to increase to 7300 GW by 2028, accounting for over 42% of global electricity generation. This activity places new demands on the evolving grid and necessitates sophisticated software. Energize Capital believes software can play a meaningful role in reducing soft costs and enabling the rapid deployment of renewables at scale. We are proud to be part of the portfolio and support ongoing impact. They invest in solutions that help make selling, financing, installing and managing distributed renewable assets easier, safer and cheaper. Check out Energize's 2023 Annual Impact & ESG Report to learn more https://hubs.la/Q02DMkY40 #CommunityImpact #ESG #RewnableEnergy #ClimateTech

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)’s September 30 deadline to obligate funds to its 60 Solar for All awardees approaches, leaving those state agencies and community leaders grappling with how to absorb and distribute the cash to come. Amanda Li, COO and co-founder of Banyan Infrastructure, a software platform that simplifies transactions for sustainable infrastructure projects, attributed the program's challenges both to its novelty and to the inherent difficulty of financing distributed infrastructure on a larger scale. But the program could be transformational. As Billy Briscoe, CEO of the Clean Energy Fund of Texas, Inc, a multistate nonprofit which was awarded $156.1 million as part of the program, noted: “Nothing on this scale has ever been attempted." https://lnkd.in/gqWBcjkg

The $27 billion deployed under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund (GGRF) is expected to drive $150 billion to underserved communities. How can we deploy those billions quickly, efficiently, and with the highest impact? In this Frontier Forum with Stephen Lacey of Latitude Media we are exploring the next critical phase for the GGRF. Tune in to hear Amanda Li and Billy Briscoe discuss the challenges and solutions to accelerating capital and tracking impact. https://hubs.la/Q02Dkf1W0

COO & Co-Founder Amanda Li took the stage at Coalition for Community Solar Access's Community Solar Innovation Summit in Denver to discuss accelerating capital and project deployment from the GGRF. 🌱 Amanda highlighted the need to scale green infrastructure projects in underserved communities, a crucial step in addressing historical inequities in decarbonization efforts, stating, "Compliance does not need to be hard. It should allow for qualified templates, scoring, and modeling… Technology will allow us to understand returns and to be able to communicate with our constituents.” Learn more about how the sustainable finance community can leverage technology to drive positive change and achieve climate goals: https://hubs.la/Q02DhCVj0 #CommunitySolarSummit #CommunitySolar #GGRF #ProjectFinance