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Green-energy home conversions can be daunting for middle- and lower-income homeowners who lack the savings to plow into the projects. GoodLeap runs a fintech platform that helps customers find both contractors to do the work and lenders to fund it. Since launching a solar-energy financing business in 2009, the company has financed more than $50 billion worth of improvements, including solar panels, geothermal heat pumps, and battery storage. It has served a total of 1.3 million homeowners, financing 150,000 projects in 2024 alone.