Community solar platform connecting households and businesses to renewable energy savings
Perch Energy operates a two-sided community solar platform: solar project developers use their tech stack and subscriber acquisition to maximize ROI; households, renters, and businesses use it to access bill savings. The stack is data-infrastructure heavy (Snowflake, dbt, Prefect, Fivetran, Segment) with Kubernetes orchestration and observability tooling (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry), pointing toward a scaling challenge: the pain-point list highlights backend scaling for millions of households, data integrity, and pipeline monitoring — consistent with their project focus on AWS data pipelines and a data lakehouse.
Perch Energy provides a full-stack community solar servicer platform founded in 2021, based in Boston. The company manages two customer sides: solar developers and asset owners receive subscriber acquisition, lifecycle management, and policy expertise to navigate state solar programs; end customers (renters, homeowners, businesses, institutions, municipalities) are connected to local community solar projects to reduce electricity bills. A small, engineering-focused team (11–50 employees, with 3 engineers and 1 data role actively hiring) is building scalable data infrastructure on AWS and Salesforce to handle millions of household accounts across state-regulated renewable energy programs.
Perch uses Salesforce (Apex, Lightning), AWS (EKS, RDS, SQS, Route 53), Snowflake, dbt, Prefect, Fivetran, Segment, Kubernetes, Terraform, GitHub Actions, and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, OpenTelemetry).
Core projects include a community solar platform, scalable AWS data pipelines, CI/CD for a data lakehouse, Kubernetes orchestration, and cloud environment optimization to serve millions of households.
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