Unlocking Capital for Distributed Energy Projects

Tim Montague interviews Tooraj Arvajeh, co-founder and CEO of Perl Street, a fintech platform designed to streamline financial operations for distributed energy resources.

Tooraj shares his journey from sustainability engineer to fintech entrepreneur, explaining how his experience developing energy efficiency projects led him to identify a critical gap between engineering expertise and financial knowledge in the clean energy sector.

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Perl Street addresses the financial complexity faced by companies developing and managing distributed energy resources (DERs) like rooftop solar, battery storage, EV chargers, and heat pumps. Tooraj explains how their platform helps third-party asset owners and managers transform individual machines into projects, bundle those projects into portfolios, and finally convert them into financial products that can attract institutional investment.

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The conversation explores how Perl Street's technology helps customers like King Energy, who develop commercial rooftop solar across real estate portfolios, by automating complex financial workflows and consolidating data from multiple sources. Tooraj highlights the value proposition for independent power producers (IPPs): enabling scale, improving returns, and creating standardization that makes distributed energy assets as easy to invest in as utility-scale projects.

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Listeners will gain valuable insights into the evolution of DERs from retail products to real estate investments to critical energy infrastructure and learn how financial technology is essential to unlocking capital at the scale needed to accelerate the clean energy transition.

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Tune in to understand the financial backbone that's powering the deployment of distributed energy resources across the country.

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