Supa Energy
Supa enables schools and businesses to turn their roofs into renewable energy hubs, empowering them to generate and share the benefits of solar with their community.
Fund: Te Pae ki te Rangi
Transaction Summary
Fund: Te Pae ki te Rangi
Date Invested: October 2025 (Seed)
Instrument: Equity Investment
IRIS+ Category: Energy | Clean Energy | Energy Access
Why We Invested
Supa’s model helps schools and businesses turn their rooftops into clean energy hubs, making it easy to generate and share solar power with their local communities.
This goes beyond installing solar panels. It’s about shifting who has access to energy and who benefits from it. By making renewable energy more local and more equitable, Supa is helping to reshape the energy system from the ground up.
We invested because Supa is practical, smart, and community focused. They’re not just tackling the climate crisis. They’re building a more equitable energy future.
Measuring What Matters
Problem:
Rising energy prices and infrastructure costs are exacerbating energy inequity, especially for vulnerable communities.
What:
Supa delivers clean, decentralised solar power using local rooftops - turning them into microgrid energy hubs. Their model reduces grid dependency, lowers costs, and shares the long-term benefits with users.
Who:
Current installs focus on schools, businesses, and community organisations - especially in underserved regions.
How Much:
Scale: Number of delivered microgrid installations.
Depth: Each site generates clean, solar-based energy that reduces reliance on the national grid, cuts energy costs, and builds local ownership of power infrastructure.
Duration: Each rooftop installation is a durable asset with a lifespan of 20-25 years. The revenue-sharing model ensures communities continue to receive benefit over time.
Contribution:
Supa’s benefit-share model ensures returns flow back into communities. A capital infusion will unlock debt financing, mainstream participation and ultimately more community benefits.
Impact Risk:
Execution risk: Growth targets are ambitious, however there is strong validation from the market.
Impact Measures:
Number of microgrid installations. Energy generated and cost savings for communities. Revenue share returned to communities.
