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Commercial solar that survives your CFO’s spreadsheet

Rooftop, carport and ground-mount systems from 25 kW to 3 MW for warehouses, retail, agriculture, multifamily, houses of worship and municipalities. Demand-charge analysis included, not sold separately.

Commercial & industrial

We model your bill, not just your roof

A commercial utility bill is three or four different charges wearing a trench coat. Energy, demand, power factor, time-of-use. Sizing an array without reading the interval data is guessing, and guessing is how a project ends up producing beautifully while the bill barely moves.

  • 15-minute interval analysis pulled directly from your utility, 12 months minimum
  • Demand-charge modeling with and without storage, so peak shaving is a decision and not an afterthought
  • Structural and electrical due diligence before we quote: roof load, existing switchgear capacity, available breaker space
  • Pro forma you can hand to finance: IRR, NPV, payback, MACRS schedule, escalation assumptions all stated
  • Ownership options including cash, C-PACE, equipment finance and third-party PPA
Commercial buildings
Configurations

Three ways to put a commercial array on your site

Rooftop

Cheapest per watt when the roof has the life and the load capacity. Ballasted racking on TPO and EPDM, mechanically attached on standing seam. We coordinate with your roofing warranty holder so you don't void it.

Solar carport

Higher cost per watt, but it shades vehicles, creates covered walkways, and gives you the conduit runs for EV charging on day one. Popular with retail, hospitals and campuses.

Ground mount

The best economics when you own unused land. Fixed-tilt or single-axis tracking, with agrivoltaic layouts available for farms that want to keep grazing underneath.

Who we build for

Sectors we know well enough to argue with you about

SectorTypical sizeWhat usually drives the return
Warehouse & logistics250 kW – 2 MW Huge flat roofs, low structural loading margins. Demand charges from dock equipment and refrigeration.
Manufacturing300 kW – 3 MW Flat load profile, high demand charges, strong case for storage-based peak shaving.
Agriculture50 kW – 1 MW Irrigation pumping loads that align beautifully with midday sun. Ground mount usually wins.
Retail & restaurant40 – 300 kW Afternoon-heavy HVAC load, small roofs. Carports often make the difference.
Multifamily60 – 600 kW Master-metered common areas, or virtual net metering allocated to tenants where allowed.
Municipal & nonprofit100 kW – 1.5 MW No tax appetite, so direct pay or a third-party PPA structure usually beats ownership.
Engagement

How a commercial project runs

Longer than residential, and with more people in the room. Real timelines below, not best cases.

01

Feasibility & data pull

We request 12 months of interval data, review your rate schedule, and produce a no-cost preliminary model. About one week.

02

Site & structural assessment

Roof core samples where needed, structural engineer's letter, switchgear inspection, and an as-built electrical review. One to three weeks.

03

Proposal & financing

Final design, stamped drawings, full pro forma, and side-by-side ownership structures. We present to your team and answer to your CPA.

04

Permitting & interconnection

The long pole. Commercial interconnection studies can take 8–20 weeks depending on the utility and whether you trip a system-impact study.

05

Construction

Two to twelve weeks on site depending on scale, scheduled around your operations. Weekly progress reporting, single point of contact.

06

Commissioning & O&M

Performance testing, utility witness test, staff training, then ongoing monitoring with an annual inspection and a production report your board can read.

A project consultation meeting
Case snapshot

1.4 MW rooftop, cold-storage distributor

A refrigerated distribution center outside Phoenix with a $41,000 monthly bill, more than half of it demand charges from compressor cycling.

  • What we found: peak demand fell at 3:40pm, well past solar's midday shoulder
  • What we built: 1.4 MW rooftop array plus 600 kWh of storage dispatched on a demand-forecast algorithm
  • Result: 62% reduction in energy charges and a 31% reduction in billed demand
  • Payback: 5.8 years modeled, 5.4 years actual through the first two years

Illustrative case study for this demonstration site.

Commercial FAQ

What facility and finance teams ask

From about 25 kW up to 3 MW. Below 25 kW a project usually behaves like a residential job and we treat it that way. Above 3 MW you want an EPC with a dedicated utility-scale team, and we'll happily refer you to one rather than learn on your money.

Dramatically. For many commercial accounts, 30–50% of the bill is demand, billed on your single highest 15-minute interval in the month, not energy. Solar alone shaves demand only if the peak happens to fall midday. We pull your interval data from the utility, find where your peaks actually occur, and model whether storage-backed peak shaving beats simply adding more panels.

Commercial solar is treated differently from residential. Businesses may still be able to claim the clean electricity investment credit under Section 48E and to depreciate the system under MACRS, subject to placed-in-service deadlines, domestic content and prevailing-wage rules that have changed repeatedly since 2025. We model the current rules in your proposal, and we insist you run it past your own CPA before you sign anything.

Yes. Roughly a third of our commercial work happens nights and weekends. We stage material off-hours, coordinate roof access with your property manager, and schedule the single unavoidable power interruption , usually two to four hours for the interconnection tie-in, whenever it costs you least.

Both. Carports cost more per watt than a rooftop but add covered parking, EV charging infrastructure and tenant-visible sustainability. Ground mounts are the cheapest per watt when you have unused acreage. We'll model all three configurations on your parcel before recommending one.

That depends on your lease, and it is the single most common thing that kills a good commercial project late. We review the lease term, the landlord's consent clause and the remaining term against the payback period before design starts. A power purchase agreement is often the cleaner structure for a tenant with under ten years left.

Clear, local, no-pressure

Send us twelve months of interval data

We’ll come back with a feasibility model, a demand-charge analysis and a preliminary pro forma at no cost. If the numbers don’t work on your site, we will say so in writing.

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