Upcoming Webinar – Using tax liability to power your schools
Brightwell provides a unique, low-risk tax-equity investment that enables your clients to impact the organizations and causes they care most about.
Brightwell uses solar tax credits, bonus depreciation, and energy management service agreement revenue to create a low-risk tax-equity investment that can put your unusable tax dollars to work.
Fortune 500 companies have strategically invested in renewable energy projects for decades, showcasing a proven strategy for mitigating their tax liabilities. Brightwell utilizes a well-pioneered model of third party solar ownership and existing federal tax incentives to unlock solar savings for nonprofits and returns for impact investors—a win-win.
— US Supreme Court Justice Louis D. Brandeis
This smart tax decision causes a ripple effect by reducing operating expenses for charities, schools, churches, and local nonprofits that power our communities.
To fully realize the value of tax credits and asset depreciation as an impact investor, a commitment to holding the project for a minimum of six years is essential.
Potential Brightwell investments require having either active or passive tax liability to participate in order to fully leverage the tax incentives and benefits behind the tax-equity model.
The Solar Investment Tax Credit (ITC) allows an investor to amend a return back to 2022 and roll forward 22 years. This combined with bonus depreciation and a 5-year MACRS schedule creates strong tax incentives.
A Brightwell investment is low-risk but because it is new to most CPAs, we offer ten hours of tax audit defense for any audit with our team of lawyers and CPAs.
With the support of a Brightwell impact investor, the Academy of Classical Christian Studies is able to direct energy savings towards powering the resources that help students flourish. The 280.18 kW solar system installed will offset 99% of energy costs on their new facilities, resulting in over $2 million in utility savings over the next three decades.
Our goal is to free $1.5B in nonprofit operating expense across the U.S. Brightwell partners with financial advisors that want to help their clients use their tax liability to impact their communities and their pocket books. Our partners are innovative and love bringing their clients value.
In an era where climate change is more than a buzzword and the shift towards renewable energy is not just encouraged but incentivized, understanding how
Make an outsized impact on the nonprofits, schools, and religious organizations that matter to you and your community. See how existing and future tax liability can power an impact that will last for decades.
