Confidence Before Commitment
Independent evidence verification for commercial solar finance.
Cliding is designed for lenders, asset-finance providers and funders reviewing UK commercial rooftop solar applications.
It brings the technical, financial and project evidence behind each case into one view, showing what is supported, what conflicts and what still needs attention.
Illustrative evidence assessment
Commercial Rooftop Solar320 kWp
System design
Verified
Submitted design is supported by available project evidence.
Annual generation
Assumption requires review
Further evidence is needed to support the submitted assumption.
Electricity consumption
Additional information required
Required consumption evidence is not yet available.
Projected savings
Assumption requires review
Depends on consumption evidence that is not yet available.
Grid connection
Evidence inconsistent
Submitted connection assumptions conflict with available evidence.
The problem
Commercial solar cases can be difficult to verify consistently.
Evidence arrives from borrowers, installers, consultants, design tools, energy records and other third parties.
The challenge is not collecting it. It is understanding what supports each claim, what conflicts, what is missing and what needs review before a case progresses.
Cliding is designed to make that review structured and traceable.
What Cliding checks
Evidence is reviewed across three areas:
Technical & Generation
- System design information
- Equipment and capacity data
- Design and generation assumptions
- Independent generation plausibility checks
- Supporting technical evidence
Energy & Financial
- Consumption evidence
- Self-consumption assumptions
- Electricity savings
- Project cash flows
- Relevant financial metrics, such as DSCR
Financial results carry the uncertainty of the assumptions they depend on.
Project & Connection Evidence
- Installer and certification evidence
- Building and energy records
- Company information
- Grid and connection evidence
- Available project and site documentation
Follow the evidence behind one claim
Every evidence state can be traced back to the information behind it.
Illustrative
01SOURCE
Submitted project evidence
02CLAIM
Annual generation
03NORMALISE
Converted to a comparable project measure
04CHECK
Checked against independent reference data
05EVIDENCE STATE
Assumption requires review
Basis: Independent reference data
Further project-specific evidence is needed before this claim can be supported.
How evidence is labelled
- Verified
Available evidence supports the claim for the purpose of review.
- Assumption requires review
The claim may be plausible, but available evidence does not fully support it.
- Evidence inconsistent
Two or more relevant pieces of evidence do not agree.
- Additional information required
There is not enough information to complete the check.
Cliding is designed to support the review process. It does not score borrowers or make the lender’s credit decision.
Relevant evidence may come from independent and project-specific sources, including:
- Public and regulatory records
- Energy and building information
- Grid and connection evidence
- Industry design information
- Independent generation reference data
- Borrower, installer and project documentation
Help shape how commercial solar evidence is reviewed.
We are speaking with lenders, underwriters and commercial solar finance professionals to understand where evidence review creates the most friction today.
If you work in commercial solar finance, we’d value a short conversation to understand your current review process.
No sales presentation. Just a focused conversation about how your review process works today.