Spruce Power Holding Corporation and its subsidiaries ("Spruce Power") is a leading owner and operator of distributed solar energy assets across the United States (the "U.S."), offering subscription-based services to approximately 84,000 home solar assets and customer contracts, making renewable energy more accessible to everyone. We are engaged in the ownership and maintenance of home solar energy systems for homeowners in the U.S.
Our primary customers are homeowners and our core solar service offerings to these customers generate revenues primarily through (i) the lease of, and the sale of electricity generated by, our home solar energy systems to homeowners pursuant to long-term Customer Agreements (as defined below) which require the homeowners to make recurring monthly payments, (ii) third party contracts to sell solar renewable energy credits ("SRECs") generated by our home solar energy systems for contracted prices, and (iii) the servicing of third party-owned solar energy systems through our Spruce Pro servicing platform, which is contracted to offer portfolio managed services to over 60,000 systems owned by third parties, as well as to our portfolio of home solar energy systems (the "Portfolio"). These portfolio managed services include (a) billing and collections/asset recovery, (b) account support services, (c) financial asset management, (d) homeowner support and servicing technology, (e) asset operations, and (f) transaction and execution services related to SRECs. Our Spruce Pro brand, launched in the first quarter of 2024, expands our prior existing residential servicing platform to the commercial solar market, offering third-party owners a range of services for residential, commercial, and industrial assets.
In addition to our core solar service offerings, we generate cash flows and earn interest income from customer contracts related to a master lease agreement described below.
We hold subsidiary fund companies, defined below as the Funds, that own and operate portfolios of home solar energy systems, which are subject to solar lease agreements ("SLAs") and power purchase agreements ("PPAs", together with the SLAs, "Customer Agreements") with residential customers who benefit from the production of electricity generated by our Portfolio, which may qualify for subsidies, renewable energy credits and other incentives as provided by the federal government and various states and local agencies. These benefits have generally been retained by our subsidiaries that own the systems, with the exception of the investment tax credit ("ITCs") under Section 48 of the Internal Revenue Code, as amended, which were generally passed through to the various financing partners of the solar energy system portfolios.