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Daylight Energy Raises $75 Million, Unveils DayFi to Tokenize Electricity Yield

The financing links institutional with DeFi capital to asset-backed solar and storage by tying returns to power sales.

Overview

  • Daylight secured $15 million in equity led by Framework Ventures and a $60 million non-recourse project finance facility led by Turtle Hill Capital.
  • Investors in the equity round include a16z Crypto, Coinbase Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, M13, Room40 Ventures, EV3, Crucible Capital, and Not Boring Capital.
  • DayFi, the newly announced protocol, is designed to let onchain investors earn yield directly from electricity revenues generated by Daylight’s solar and storage assets.
  • The company’s network connects home devices such as solar inverters, batteries, EVs, and thermostats to provide grid services and reward participants.
  • Daylight is piloting deployments in Illinois and Massachusetts and says it will introduce DeFi-based financing and additional rollouts in the coming quarters.