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It took 50 years to reach 5 million installations—now that number will double to 10 million in just six. 97% of these are on residential and commercial rooftops, yet over 1.7 million homes are missing out on valuable Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) income. Why? Because REC (Renewable Energy Certificate) management is still manual, confusing, and built for utilities—not everyday solar owners. Jasmine Energy changes that. Our AI-powered asset manager puts registration, compliance, and sales on autopilot, making it easy to turn solar generation into recurring income—with just a few clicks.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65777&key=user_uploads/421/1c122467-5767-4a4e-b073-e88acd17faf4)\n\n**TL;DR: Jasmine is the first end-to-end REC management platform built for residential and commercial solar. We automate common and confusing workflows—helping solar owners get paid extra for generating clean energy.** \n\n### **The Problem**\n\n**Claiming RECs requires too much overhead for small or independent developers. (it works fine for the utility scale developers who designed it)**\n\nResidential and commercial solar generators lose time and money navigating an outdated, fragmented system for managing Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs).\n\nThe industry still relies on paper, pens, and people. There’s no single source of truth, no standardized documentation, and no digital infrastructure to support efficient operations.\n\n* **Complex registry compliance:** Each generator must register with one of several regional tracking systems, all with different rules, document requirements, and verification steps.\n* **Manual data reporting:** Uploading generation data, proving eligibility, and submitting documents are tedious, inconsistent, and prone to error.\n* **Inefficient monetization:** Selling RECs means navigating opaque markets, unclear pricing, and a maze of disconnected brokers and buyers—without a unified platform.\n\n### **Our Solution – AI-Powered Automation for the Solar Industry**\n\n**Use AI to “read” details from PDFs and to interact with legacy government websites.** \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65777&key=user_uploads/421/c7d2bd40-b6eb-4064-b70f-120b3eeb1ea9)\n\nJasmine replaces the outdated, paper-based REC management process with an AI-powered platform purpose-built for residential and commercial solar generators.\n\nOur asset manager brings structure, standardization, and automation to an industry still running on spreadsheets and guesswork:\n\n* **Automated registration:** Jasmine handles the full lifecycle of registration, reporting, and verification across all major tracking systems—no paperwork, no confusion.\n* **Instant data processing:** Our AI ingests, validates, and submits generation data directly from inverters or utility portals to ensure RECs are accurately and efficiently issued.\n* **Transparent payouts:** Track your REC sales in real time and get paid faster, with full visibility into pricing, status, and transaction history.\n\nJasmine turns a fragmented, manual process into a seamless, digital experience—so solar owners can focus on generating power, not paperwork.\n\n### **Key Features**\n\n📝 **Automated Asset Registration** – Jasmine handles onboarding your residential or commercial solar system into the appropriate REC tracking registry, eliminating paperwork and manual errors.\n\n✅ **AI-Powered Data Validation** – Our platform connects to your inverter or utility portal to automatically validate and submit generation data in real time—ensuring fast, compliant REC issuance.\n\n📈 **Transparent Reporting & Analytics** – Get a clean, centralized view of your REC portfolio: generation history, earnings, sale status, and payout timelines—all in one dashboard.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65777&key=user_uploads/421/e3f34226-de05-4e49-a60f-b4b95d079cfc)\n\n### **Market Opportunity**\n\n* **5M+ solar systems in the U.S.** eligible for REC sales.\n* **$5B+ annual REC market** that is growing as corporations push for sustainability goals.\n* **85% of small-scale generators** don’t currently monetize their RECs due to complexity.\n\n### **Who We Are For**\n\n🏠 **Home Solar Owners** \\\nEarn passive income from your rooftop solar—no spreadsheets, no stress. Jasmine fully automates REC registration, reporting, and sales so you can **get paid fast** for the clean energy you’re already producing.\n\n🏢 \\*\\*Commercial Developers & Independent Power Producers (IPPs)\\*\\*\\\nManage RECs across portfolios of solar assets with zero friction. Jasmine scales with your business—automating multi-site registration, streamlining compliance, and optimizing REC monetization from start to finish.\n\n🤝 **Third Party Owners & Origination Teams** \\\nThird Party Owners (TPOs) own many thousands of small solar generators. Each site has the compliance overhead as a single utility scale facility. Jasmine helps  third party owners seamlessly register and track hundreds or even thousands of small distributed generators quickly and accurately.\n\n### **Our Ask**\n\n**If you have solar:**  \\\nUse the product!  You can upload your solar documents and claim your incentives TODAY ->  \n\n**If you don't have solar:**  \\\nIntroductions: Know a homeowner, business with solar, or a local solar installer? Refer them to Jasmine! Here’s a quick blurb you can share: \n\n_\"Jasmine Energy automates Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) management for residential and commercial solar. We handle registration, compliance, and REC sales using AI-powered automation—so solar owners can earn passive income without lifting a finger.\"_\n\n_📧:  _[_nathalie@jasmine.energy_](mailto:nathalie@jasmine.energy)\n\n🔗 [jasmine.energy](http://jasmine.energy)\n\nJoin us in simplifying and scaling REC management for the clean energy transition. 🚀\n\n**Nathalie, Dalton, and Matt**\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=65777&key=user_uploads/421/8d311047-fc85-4a85-9015-f05db3eb3b4f)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/H6v-jasmine-energy-claim-solar-incentives-with-ai", "votes": 41, "created_at": "2025-04-06T16:21:38.000Z" }, { "id": 73943, "title": "Jasmine Energy: Realtime climate asset trading", "tagline": "The easiest way to make your company 100% powered by renewables", "body": "**TL;DR:** Jasmine makes it easy to claim, buy, and sell renewable energy certificates.\n\nHi Everyone! [Nathalie](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nathaliecapati-energy/), [Dalton](https://www.linkedin.com/in/tdaltonc/), and [Matt](https://linkedin.com/in/matthewmayberry) here to (re)introduce [**Jasmine Energy**](https://jasmine.energy/) 🔋\n\nOn Jasmine, anyone can claim, sell, buy, and retire [energy attributes](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_certificate) directly.\n\nEnergy attribute certificates (EACs) (sometimes called Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs)  are a $10B market that is stuck in a time capsule from the fax machine era. Today's EAC market is confusing and time-consuming, taking weeks to register and days to trade.\\\n\\\nWe are on a mission to accelerate the net-zero transition by building climate asset markets that are accessible, transparent, and efficient.\n\n**💢 The Problem**\n\nRECs are a valuable source of revenue for renewable energy generators and are worth up to $500/MWh! The problem is EACs are still traded using phone calls and fax machines. The whole process is confusing and time-consuming, taking weeks to register and days to trade. Middlemen currently keep up to 30% of trade value. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=73943&key=user_uploads/89898/29c68bd5-72fe-4072-86fc-e6d3b32cc819)\n\n**🤝 The Solution**\n\nOn Jasmine, anyone can buy and sell EACs at a posted price, permissionless, with settlement in seconds.  \n\nJasmine helps users manage their renewable energy assets by bridging RECs onto the blockchain and enabling DeFi transactions that are impossible in the existing markets. 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It cuts soft cost per installation by **$3K (17% of total cost)** & accelerates projects by **45 days (30% of project timeline)**.\n\nIt automates the entire workflow so contractors can focus on growing their business & helping more homeowners go solar 😎☀️\n\n# **🤯 Problem**\n\nAbdullah used to work in the solar industry, first in the sales department, and later in operations management.\n\nHe witnessed first-hand that while **“going solar”** was a no-brainer and took consumers 5 minutes, the process of getting a solar system **turned on** was a nightmare for companies and customers alike, taking 6-9 months instead of the promised 90 days. \\\n\\\nThis is because despite being one of the most important industries of our lifetime, solar is in the dark ages technologically. Bloated Salesforce instances, spreadsheets with 300+ columns, and pencil-and-paper workflows in the field…\n\nThis results in project managers working 60-hour weeks, human error & delays at every step of the process, and some of the [worst customer experience](https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1877039252445470) in the entire home improvement sector.\n\n# **💡 Solution**\n\nCoperniq is the first industry-specific platform for the underserved energy workforce. It helps…\n\n## **1\\. Finish projects faster and cheaper**\n\nOur platform cuts up to 25% of soft costs, allowing contractors to deploy more projects, faster, and cheaper; with 5-star customer experience **every time**.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=69996&key=user_uploads/541919/dc586ac8-2cc9-4216-a3ff-95737f8c9942)\n\n### **2\\. 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We consolidate the thousands of rebates, incentives, and green financing options for energy efficiency upgrades, and make it easy for contractors to secure funding for their customers.\n\n**We’re looking for intros to HVAC installers and electrification services for our pilot**. And if you’re thinking about getting a heat pump, we’d love to help you find and apply for rebates and other incentives. Get in touch at [founders@line.build](mailto:founders@line.build)\n\n### **The Problem**\n\nWith buildings accounting for almost 40% of US GHG emissions, retrofitting for efficiency is essential to reduce emissions and load on the grid, but expensive. Over $80B of rebates, incentives and financing is available but hyper-fragmented across utilities, federal funds, grants, and green lending programs. Contractors are often responsible for helping consumers navigate this fragmented landscape - not only does their consumer demand it, but many sources of funding require it. This is leading to an increase in overhead, as they hire Ops teams and consultants to meet demand. Contractors that do not provide this service are seeing their conversion impacted, as consumers look to maximize savings. \n\n### **Our Solution**\n\nLine is a single source of truth for all available funding options. By providing a few pieces of information, such as project address and scope, contractors can easily access all available incentives and financing options available to their customer. Requirements are consolidated and distilled in a simple manner and we make suggestions that help contractors maximize savings for their customers. Maximized savings, means maximized conversion!\n\nOnce the customer is ready to proceed with the project, the contractor can leverage a common application to apply for all eligible programs. We remove the hassle of navigating multiple websites, printing documents, or mailing applications.\n\nOur platform is designed to be user-friendly, available in multiple languages, and accessible on both web and mobile devices. Additionally, we provide an API that seamlessly integrates with existing quoting tools, enhancing efficiency and convenience.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72550&key=user_uploads/1432654/02e79c39-4134-4f77-bff2-286ca21bbd57)\n\n### **Our Backstory**\n\nDasha and Steph have worked on payments and risk management for the last 10+ years at companies such as Airbnb, Plaid, Stripe, Asana, Gusto, and Google. We couldn’t think of a bigger risk than climate change, and wanted to find ways to help accelerate the transition to a greener and more energy efficient economy. We learned that cost is a big barrier to deploying technology such as heat pumps. We knew that funds such as utility rebates were available, but were surprised at how hard the process of discovering and applying for them is – so we decided to help solve that! \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=72550&key=user_uploads/1432654/96e73cbe-5f05-4084-b4bc-890df449174a)\n\n### **Ask: How you can help**\n\n* Connect us to contractors such as HVAC installers, residential solar companies, electricians or whole home electrification contractors to try out our pilot\n * _quick blurb to copy & paste:_ [Line](https://www.line.build/?utm_source=YCLaunch&utm_medium=post) is a new tool that creates a single source of truth for all available funding options for home energy efficiency projects. They help access sources of funds to reduce project cost and increase conversion. Check them out at [www.line.build](http://www.line.build) or get in touch at [founders@line.build](mailto:founders@line.build)\n* Are you thinking about a home project such as getting a new hot water heater or heat pump? We’d be keen to help you get any rebates or incentives (email us at [founders@line.build](mailto:founders@line.build))\n* Intros to companies that build other contractor tooling such as quoting or invoicing.\n\n ", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/IsA-line-enabling-affordable-building-decarbonization", "votes": 234, "created_at": "2023-06-26T19:01:06.507Z" } ] }, { "id": 29444, "name": "Vista Power", "slug": "vista-power", "former_names": [ "Vista Space" ], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/200c92ec7689cca5def8c23c08741030c6d28f97.png", "website": "https://vistapower.com", "all_locations": "San Francisco, CA, USA", "long_description": "Vista designs, finances, installs, and manages energy storage and solar at commercial, industrial, and multifamily properties for $0 upfront, helping businesses save up to 30% on their energy bills. 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The founders worked at SpaceX, Rocket Lab, and NASA. \n\n**The Ask** \\\nIf you or anyone you know are building spacecraft or any other products that could benefit from structural batteries, we should talk! Please reach out or send referrals our way to [sales@govista.space](mailto:sales@govista.space) or our website at . \n\n—\n\nHey all, we’re [Vista Space](https://govista.space/), co-founded by [Maxim Kraft](https://linkedin.com/in/maximkraft), [Petar Matejic](https://linkedin.com/in/petar-matejic), and [Chaitanya Kore](https://www.linkedin.com/in/ckore/). Our mission is to power the next generation of space exploration. \n\n### **Problem**\n\nPower is a fundamental constraint for space mission design, as everything operating in space requires electricity. Today's spacecraft power systems are not capable enough to support both the current and next-generation mission concepts, leading satellite manufacturers to painful trade-offs: **limiting additional hardware** or **increasing system size** to get more power. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79713&key=user_uploads/293472/5a1ec437-b4ee-4544-b3ad-5082e2be92c3)\n\nWith reduced capabilities, companies lose their technological advantage. 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Maxim met Chaitanya at a conference for rising NewSpace leaders and stayed in touch since. \n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=79713&key=user_uploads/89898/1b0414fe-b273-4da1-b4fb-2265113278ca)\n\nMaxim: Berkeley alum (Economics & Physics). Former SpaceX, Rocket Lab. Taught a course on space economy and entrepreneurship during undergrad. \n\nPetar: Former SpaceX, NASA, Firefly, The Boring Company. Co-founded UNLV's student satellite team. \n\nChaitanya: Founded Space Force Association Great Lakes chapter. Helped secure a multi-billion-dollar battery gigafactory in Illinois.  \n\n### **The Ask**\n\n* Please share this post with your network, even outside the space industry! \n* If we’re building something you need, please reach out or send referrals to [sales@govista.space](mailto:founders@govista.space) or our website .\n* Leave an upvote!\n\n \n\n**Early adopter benefits:** Anyone who places a Pre-order gets personalized technical review sessions and priority delivery of the first production units. \n\nThanks all! 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Capacity is limited. 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We build drones that clear clouds over solar farms and ultimately weaken hurricanes. \nPreviously worked on capacitive sensing for digital microfluidics at the University of Cambridge.\nCambridge MEng in Engineering, specialised in Electrical & Electronic Engineering, Information & Computer Engineering, Instrumentation & Control.", "is_active": true, "linkedin_url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-nilsson-2b3775254/", "x_url": "https://x.com/eric_nilsson_", "avatar_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/avatars/9396f9942c88c3920b9d6d17d32c28275e141a56.jpg" } ], "jobs": [], "news": [], "launches": [ { "id": 111583, "title": "Meteoric — Drones that clear clouds over solar farms and ultimately weaken hurricanes", "tagline": "Meteoric is building drones that reduce the reflectivity of clouds above solar farms and ultimately reduce the intensity of severe storms and hurricanes.", "body": "![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=111583&key=user_uploads/2005935/6f49c082-1391-4bb6-939f-8f92d0dee7a0)\n\n**TL;DR:** Meteoric is building drones that fly into clouds and reduce their reflectivity without spraying any chemicals. We're starting with clearing overcast clouds above utility-scale solar farms to increase their annual generation by 10–30% with no new infrastructure. Our long-term goal is to scale this system to weaken severe storms and hurricanes. First large-scale cloud clearing flight in 2027 and first storm flight in 2028.\n\nHey everyone! We’re [Mete](https://www.linkedin.com/in/mete-karslioglu) and [Eric](https://www.linkedin.com/in/eric-nilsson-2b3775254), and we’re building drones to engineer clouds.\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=111583&key=user_uploads/2005935/5c79de40-e828-4e83-aff5-e1ae0feb3dc4)\n\n⚡ **Starting with solar**\n\nAI has created an enormous demand for power, and solar is scaling exponentially. [US utility-scale solar capacity is set to double by 2030](https://cleanpower.org/resources/market-pulse-utility-scale-solar-summer-2026), and [the world will add 2+ TW](https://www.iea.org/reports/renewables-2025/renewable-electricity) over the same period.\n\nBut building new capacity is getting harder and less profitable. Only [\\~14% of US utility-scale solar projects](https://emp.lbl.gov/queues) actually get built and [773 GW is already waiting in interconnection queues](https://emp.lbl.gov/queues). \n\nAt the same time, generation costs are rising as tax credits are overhauled and tariffs increase material prices. This makes each additional MWh generated from an existing plant more valuable.\n\n[Low and mid-level overcast clouds cut incoming sunlight by 73–82%](https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0038092X80903916) while they’re overhead. We recover that without building new infrastructure. \n\n🌤 **What we're building**\n\nFleets of 10s-100s of autonomous drones that fly into low and mid-altitude clouds (1–5 km) over a solar farm and alter the water droplets that form them without using any chemicals. This reduces their reflectivity and brings back measurable amounts of sunlight to the panels below.\n\nOur cloud-loss model shows that this process can increase annual generation from existing assets by 10–30% across major US grid regions, worth \\~$5,000–28,000/MW, without building any new infrastructure.\n\n⚙️ **Traction**\n\n* Built a working prototype that dissipated an artificial cloud by 13% in cloud-chamber tests\n* Built a cloud-loss model that quantifies how much generation a given US solar plant is losing to the clouds we can treat\n\n👉 **Why now**\n\n* Cloud access got \\~97% cheaper: conventional seeding aircrafts cost $2,000+/hr; electric drones are at $30–60/hr. \n* AI is transforming weather forecasting: DeepMind's weather models produce [15-day forecasts in less than a minute](https://deepmind.google/blog/weathernext-ai-model-achieves-breakthrough-in-forecasting-cyclones/) and [outperform traditional physics-based models on more than 90% of benchmarks](https://developers.google.com/weathernext/guides/evals).\n\n🎯 **Weakening storms and hurricanes**\n\nOur ultimate goal is to reduce the intensity of severe storms and hurricanes.\n\nSevere weather has already cost the US [$31.9B in the first half of 2026](https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-services/billion-dollar-disasters), and from 2020 to 2024 severe storms, floods, and tropical cyclones caused [an average of \\~$121B/yr in losses](https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/summary-stats). Severe storms alone generated [$50B+/yr in insured losses for the past three years](https://www.iii.org/press-release/triple-i-severe-convective-storms-generate-more-than-50b-in-insured-losses-for-third-consecutive-year-041326). There's now [a billion-dollar weather disaster every 16 days vs. every 82 days in the 1980s](https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/billions/climatology).\n\nGlobally, these disasters caused [over $2T in damage in the past decade](https://iccwbo.org/news-publications/policies-reports/new-report-extreme-weather-events-cost-economy-2-trillion-over-the-last-decade) and claimed [more than 2 million lives in the past 50 years](https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/05/1136897). \n\nClearing stable overcast clouds is our first major technical milestone. It will prove we can reliably alter clouds at scale. From there, we’ll expand our fleets and control systems to reduce the intensity of severe storms and hurricanes. First storm operation targeted for late 2028.\n\n👥 **Team**\n\nWe're two Cambridge engineers with backgrounds in weather engineering and droplet-control systems:\n\nMete (CEO): Master's research on making clouds more reflective using seawater spray nozzles at the Cambridge Centre for Climate Repair (funded by ARIA, UK's DARPA). MEng from Cambridge in aerospace/aerothermal, energy, and mechanical engineering.\n\nEric (CTO): Master's research on microfluidic chips that control water, and built droplet-removal technology for LiDAR lenses. MEng from Cambridge in electrical, control, and computer engineering. Placed 4th nationally in the British Physics Challenge.\n\n🙏 **We'd love to hear from you if you:**\n\n* work in disaster response or severe weather at the state or federal level (FEMA, state EMs, NOAA, NWS)\n* run hail suppression programs (North Dakota, Texas, Alberta)\n* own, manage, build, or operate utility-scale solar plants (especially in Texas, northern US, UK, or northern Europe)\n* work in weather modelling / meteorology / atmospheric science (especially in hurricane or storm research)\n* are engineers with experience in drones or high-voltage systems / power electronics\n\nReach us at [team@meteoric.earth](mailto:team@meteoric.earth)\n\n![uploaded image](/media/?type=post&id=111583&key=user_uploads/2005935/c0a9ce1e-492d-4687-8c6d-4d53a7bf67b2)\n\n", "url": "https://www.ycombinator.com/launches/T1j-meteoric-drones-that-clear-clouds-over-solar-farms-and-ultimately-weaken-hurricanes", "votes": 19, "created_at": "2026-08-21T20:00:00.552Z" } ] }, { "id": 32192, "name": "Rise Reforming", "slug": "rise-reforming", "former_names": [], "small_logo_thumb_url": "https://bookface-images.s3.amazonaws.com/small_logos/5b908857ac82ef0d2a3b793f89fa198298587f8a.png", "website": "https://rise-reforming.com/home", "all_locations": "Chicago, IL, USA", "long_description": "Geopolitical conflicts and natural disasters frequently expose the vulnerability of the American chemical industry. The reason? Production is centralized and fossil fuel-dependent. The solution? Localized production using an undervalued resource: biogas. The US produces enough biogas to make over $20 bn/y worth of chemicals, but 60% is wasted in low-margin applications or flared altogether.\r\n\r\nRise Reforming is commercializing a modular process to transform this underutilized biogas on-site into cheap, supply-secure chemicals. Our beachhead market is dimethyl ether (DME), used as an aerosol propellant and a low-carbon fuel additive in propane. Our target market is methanol: an established billion $ chemical and the future of low-carbon shipping.\r\n\r\nWe're doing our pilot project at a Chicagoland wastewater plant. This will be the first wastewater biogas-to-methanol demo in the Americas.\r\n\r\nWe're hiring for a senior chemical process engineer. 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The US produces enough biogas to make over $20 bn/y worth of chemicals, but 60% is wasted in low-margin applications or flared altogether.\n\nRise Reforming is commercializing a modular process to transform this underutilized biogas into valuable supply-secure chemicals like dimethyl ether (DME) and methanol. Our technology can be deployed on-site, helping biogas producers properly valorize their gas.\n\nWe've just broken ground on our pilot project at a Chicagoland wastewater plant. This will be the first wastewater biogas-to-methanol demo in the Americas.\n\nRise Reforming is hiring for a senior chemical process engineer. 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