Nashville-based Clearloop recently partnered with its first business, Boston-based Impact Snacks, a healthy snack company that “reclaims more carbon than it makes, produces no plastic and harnesses the power of collective action leaving nothing behind except for a better, cleaner world.”

Founded by former Tennessee Governor Phil Bredesen, Laura Zapata, and Bob Corney in 2019, Clearloop aims to “accelerate the greening of the U.S. electricity grid in the next 10 years through the force of everyday actions.” The startup helps companies “measure, reclaim and track” their carbon footprint with new renewable energy facilities. 

“We’re trying to partner with different businesses in a way similar to crowdfunding to build these facilities that would produce enough energy to power 200 homes in the Jackson area,” said Zapata. Zapata and Corney worked on Bredesen’s staff when he was governor. 

With this new partnership, Clearloop will build its first megawatt-producing solar facility near Silicon Ranch Corporation’s 2-megawatt solar farm in Jackson, Tennessee. Bredesen serves as the Founding Chairman of the Board for Silicon Ranch Corporation, a valued Tennessee Advanced Energy Business Council member. 

Clearloop’s mission is to help businesses of all sizes partner to build renewable energy facilities to generate clean energy and decrease or completely eliminate their carbon footprint. 

“I see it as a way of really reaching into a different world of companies that are not the big dogs, who have got some C-suite executive worrying about sustainability, like Walmart does or Procter & Gamble does,” Bredesen told The Associated Press. 

Zapata said the company intends to announce more partnerships later this year.