Oppidan, Harrison Street, and Watermark Retirement Communities engaged Wunder to deploy an on-site solar system at Hacienda San Luis Rey, a new 212-unit luxury senior living community located in Oceanside, CA. The 419 kilowatt solar system delivers substantial energy bill savings, tangible progress against aggressive ESG goals, and clean energy for Hacienda San Luis Rey’s new residents.
Solar solutions for top real estate firms
Maximize property value and reduce operating costs by seamlessly deploying solar systems nationwide.
Benefits
Unlock the full value of your portfolio
Unlock property income
Turn your unused rooftops, parking lots, and ground spaces into valuable income-generating assets. By installing a solar system, we can deliver value in the form of a simple lease payment, or as direct energy revenue.
Deliver new tenant benefits
Solar systems frequently offer energy bill savings for on-site tenants. This cost reduction improves over time, and can assist property owners in attracting new tenants, retaining current ones, and potentially increasing rent.
Meet your ESG goals
With investors pushing for ESG progress, solar provides an opportunity to make tangible progress at no expense. We can help you reserve your budget for other initiatives by aligning your impact goals with your revenue targets.
Solar, simplified
Leverage Wunder's market knowledge, capabilities, and resources to meet your solar goals—whether it's a single project or a nationwide rollout. Our process is designed to be fast, informative, and efficient.
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Assess
At no cost, we'll evaluate your full portfolio, analyze each property, review utility data, design systems, and model potential incentives to identify the best opportunities.
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Plan
Together, we’ll create a detailed deployment plan that takes into account economic benefits, ESG goals, tenant considerations, and regulatory requirements.
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Install
We’ll maximize your value by running a competitive RFP process to secure the best installation rate (a project's largest cost), and we'll manage installation from start to finish.
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Manage
To ensure optimal performance, we provide complete management services for the life of each system, including 24/7 remote monitoring, operations, maintenance, and billing .
Competitive RFPs to secure market pricing
To ensure you capture the most value possible, we always run robust Request For Proposal (RFP) processes to secure multiple bids from pre-screened vendors, energy integrators, and hardware distributors. Where possible, we batch projects—sometimes across multiple clients—to unlock economies of scale and enable RFP participants to bid more aggressively.
Wunder’s Industry-first
Upside guarantee
With Wunder, you can move forward with confidence knowing that you're the beneficiary of any project value. Even after contracts are signed, if we uncover opportunities to improve project economics further—expected or unexpected—we’ll amend the agreements so you benefit.
While other solar providers may keep those benefits, we prioritize transparency and always put your interests first.
New Programs
If a new incentive or energy program becomes available that improves project economics, you benefit.
Installation Costs
While we leverage unrivaled market data to estimate costs, if RFP bids come in lower than expected, you benefit.
Hardware
If market aberrations and supply chain logistics lead to significant hardware cost compression, you benefit.
Higher Rates
If utility rates, tariffs, or other system revenue drivers are ultimately higher than expected, you benefit.
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Solar Options
We support all solar programs and monetization strategies available nationwide. For each property, there may be multiple ways to monetize a solar system. We’ll identify which utility and state programs are applicable, and step you through your options and their tradeoffs.
Learn MoreBehind-the-meter
Available nationwide, these solar systems generate power for on-site tenants exclusively. Tenants benefit by purchasing solar power at a discount to their utility rate. Wunder’s simple Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) is typically used, which aligns with the terms of the tenant’s underlying property lease.
Front-of-meter
Where available, these solar systems can provide energy to on-site tenants, the surrounding community, or even the utility. Common examples include community solar (in which energy is sold to surrounding businesses and residences) and feed-in-tariff programs (in which energy is sold directly to the utility).
Integrating solar into your development process
Working with real estate developers is a specialty of ours. Clear communication and tight integration with your broader property development plan is essential, given the number of moving parts and timeline requirements.
Pre-developement
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- Assess solar feasibility of acquisition targets
- Consult on permit and entitlement implications
- Collect mortgage lender pre-approvals, if applicable
- Deliver indicative economics for seamless IC approval
- Structure energy asset for seamless property divestment
Development
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- Join weekly OAC meetings
- Evaluate site plans and structural drawings
- Deliver ‘solar-ready’ guidance (conduits, electrical rooms, metering, roof specs, etc.)
- Schedule solar integration to meet property development timelines
Post-development
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- Deliver seamless energy asset management services
- Provide system performance reporting
- Ensure transactional simplicity by supporting property sale activities
Platform
Meet Astra, the industry-leading energy platform
Seamlessly manage your national energy strategy with our centralized data-driven platform. Track portfolio progress, get project updates, receive notifications about emerging opportunities, monitor real-time production, and engage tenants with on-site system performance kiosks. And when reporting season arrives, your data is just a click away.
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