Portfolio Partner Profile

Sunwealth HoldCo 28

Sunwealth is a clean energy investment firm working to create a more resilient, secure, and equitable energy future by financing and managing a diverse array of community-based solar projects across the US. As a developer, aggregator, and owner of small-scale commercial solar installations, Sunwealth’s mission is to facilitate collaboration between communities, developers, and investors. The organization aims to support successful, high-yield commercial solar projects that provide affordable clean energy directly to power recipients and assert exceptional return potential to investors. To accomplish this, Sunwealth partners with skilled local installers, community organizations, local businesses, and investors to change who benefits from clean energy by changing the way we invest in it. As a public benefit corporation and B Corp, Sunwealth projects aim to deliver meaningful benefits to communities through energy savings, carbon reductions, and economic opportunities so that everyone can benefit from the clean energy transition.

Calvert Impact has developed a strong long-standing relationship with Sunwealth since 2020 and is currently invested in their Sunwealth Holdco 5 LLC.

Featured Impact Story

Impact Story

Czajkowski Farm

At the University of Massachusetts Amherst dining hall, ranked the best university dining hall in the country, students are filling their plates with locally grown broccoli from Czajkowski Farm in Hadley, MA. This broccoli is unique — it was grown through agrivoltaics where a parcel of land is used for both generating solar photovoltaic power and growing crops.

Jake and Joe Czajkowski, owner of Czajkowski Farm, worked together to find a way to maintain farmland while also reducing Joe Czajkowski’s electric bill and building sustainability. Jake Marley manages Hyperion Systems, a Massachusetts solar developer focused on developing agrivoltaic projects. Agrivoltaics proved an effective solution and Sunwealth partnered with Hyperion to deliver it.

This is Sunwealth’s first agrivoltaic low-income community solar project, which provides discounted clean energy to 22 low-income community members, $1.2 million in lifetime energy savings, and enables the reduction of 11,887 tons of carbon emissions. This dual land use project also supports Sunwealth’s mission — to power unity with solar — proving that solar and farmland can coexist and even support each other’s success. Joe Czajkowski’s farm is a prime example of this model, which has allowed him to save money on his electricity bill to reinvest into the farm, while acting as a pioneering example to other farmers in the Pioneer Valley.