For non-taxable entities
Move Now helps eligible organizations evaluate Direct Pay eligibility, organize documentation, and move from project concept to filing readiness.
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Direct Pay Advisor · Move Now
Clean energy cash payments should not get stuck in the filing process.
Move Now helps non-taxable entities register, document, and file eligible clean energy Direct Pay claims while giving philanthropists a practical path to unlock mission-aligned solar projects.
Advising projectspartnersmission-aligned clean energy initiatives
The Move Now team acted quickly and efficiently to apply for registration for our nonprofit's solar project, precisely navigating the application process to request a cash rebate. Their deep expertise ensured that they knew which tax forms to prepare.
I recommend the Move Now team to apply for your project's approval of Direct Pay.
Managing Director, Women's Step House
501(c)(3) corporation · Orange County, CA
What is Direct Pay?
A clean energy credit pathway for organizations that do not usually use tax credits.
Direct Pay can convert eligible clean energy credits into a cash payment for nonprofits, local governments, schools, public agencies, faith organizations, and other non-taxable entities. Move Now focuses on the practical work: eligibility, evidence, registration sequence, forms, timing, and partner coordination.
For philanthropists and foundations
Move Now frames catalytic grant, PRI, and mission-related investment pathways so early feasibility and development dollars can unlock larger clean energy projects.
How philanthropists participate →Case Study
The Women's Step House project shows how a completed nonprofit solar and storage project can connect project documentation to a cash payment claim.
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Move Now process
Assess. Develop. File and receive cash.
The Direct Pay opportunity is valuable only when the entity, project, evidence, filing sequence, and partners are aligned before deadlines become urgent.
Assess eligibility
Review entity status, project type, timing, credit assumptions, and documentation gaps before committing to the filing path.
Develop the project
Coordinate project scoping, feasibility, site readiness, community fit, and development partners so the energy asset can qualify and get built.
File and receive cash
Prepare the registration and Direct Pay election support package after the project satisfies the filing requirements.
Upcoming event
Join the next Move Now Direct Pay consult.
MOVE NOW Direct Pay Consult + Q&A — Tuesday Session is a live online briefing and Q&A for non-taxable entities evaluating solar, storage, EV charging, and related clean energy projects.
Advisory Services
Tell Move Now which door you are opening.
Choose a persona path so your inquiry routes to the right Direct Pay, project development, referral, or investment conversation.
Move Now team
A practical advisory team for project, filing, legal, technical, and intake questions.
Move Now routes each inquiry to the right professional context: Open Doors leadership, strategy and legal review, engineering and project feasibility, and intake coordination.
Lane Sharman
President, Open Doors Management. Lane leads the Move Now Direct Pay practice and routes project, policy, financing, and execution questions to the right advisory context.
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Leyna Phan coordinates intake and outreach with technical and strategy advisors.
Dr. Jose Torre-Bueno
Technical Advisor
Stuart Smits, Esq.
Strategy Advisor