Track record

Projects where the interconnection changed the outcome

Advisory work on community-scale and commercial solar and storage. Sizes are the figures used for each project. Screening behind them includes 5,000+ parcels assessed and 1,000+ landowners qualified. Clients are described by place and type, not by name.

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Aerial of the Foster solar array in agricultural land near Arcata, Humboldt County

Humboldt County, California

Foster Clean Power

9.4 MWdc solar · 2.5 MW / 10 MWh storage

Led development and interconnection for a two-site portfolio near Arcata — 4.45 MWdc and 4.95 MWdc — under a power-purchase agreement with a Humboldt County community choice aggregator. It is the largest new community solar and storage project on the North Coast, sized to serve 3,000+ homes.

Outcome. A mis-recorded water easement and a PG&E easement sat on the planned access road. Fresh surveys and a revised layout, worked out with the local water district, cut the road cost from over $240,000 to about $60,000 and saved six weeks, without giving up the energy yield.

Rooftop solar on an agricultural processing building in San Joaquin County

San Joaquin County, California

Agricultural processor rooftop portfolio

Linden 232 kWdc · Ripon 670 kWdc · Stockton 1.03 MWdc

Advised a Central Valley agricultural processor, a family-run nut business, on eleven roofs across three facilities. Each roof had a different structure and no as-built drawings, so the layout was checked against the building's load limits first.

Outcome. The interconnection design reused the existing switchgear and transformer, avoiding at least $200,000 in upgrades. The Stockton site covers 86% of its load and saves about $230,000 a year. Ripon saves about $223,000 a year and Linden about $50,000.

Aerial of the Dos Palos solar array in farmland, Merced County

Dos Palos, Merced County

Dos Palos Clean Power

4.29 MWdc

Guided a community solar project in a CalEPA-designated disadvantaged community through three conditional use permit appeals and on to operation. The array uses 11.5 acres of a 39-acre parcel, leaving most of the land in agriculture.

Outcome. About 1,200 homes' worth of generation for Los Banos, a 20% bill reduction for income-qualified customers of a community choice aggregator, and about 74,000 tons of CO2 avoided over the project's life.

Marin County, California

Fallon Two Rock

1.46 MWdc · 4.5 acres

A solar farm in the Petaluma–Tomales area, interconnected to PG&E and fully subscribed by a North Bay community choice aggregator. The array uses about 3.6% of the parcel so grazing can continue around it. Estimated output is 2,300 MWh a year.

Outcome. In operation on PG&E. Agricultural use of the rest of the parcel continues alongside the array.

Livingston, Merced County

West Tambo II

2.93 MWdc · 8.5 acres

Advisory on a PG&E-interconnected solar project in a community designated both disadvantaged and low-income. Output serves income-qualified customers in San Jose at a 20% electricity discount.

Outcome. In operation. About 800 homes' worth of annual generation, and about 48,000 tons of CO2 avoided over the project's life.

Orchard site planned for Ranch Sereno solar and storage in Contra Costa County

Byron, Contra Costa County

Ranch Sereno Clean Power

2.40 MWdc solar · 3.60 MWh storage · 7.5 acres

Microgrid-capable solar and storage in the county's solar overlay zone, able to support a feeder that serves a school and a county facility. The conditional use permit followed a two-year county process.

Outcome. PG&E interconnection approved. Conditional use permit granted by Contra Costa County.

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