Our base business remains the management and long-term operational support of solar and other DER assets, including BESS (energy storage). A significant number of these assets are embedded within real estate portfolios. We support the technical, commercial operation, risk management, and regulatory needs of investment.
We focus on all elements of asset optimization and return realization.
Great Circle Solar brings everything needed for asset creation and ownership in the growing distributed solar and BESS sector in North America.
We can deploy our capital, or yours, or invest together.
We excel at portfolio triage and full development management for new builds & existing buildings.
We offer bespoke energy management solutions for on-site, managed capacity, such as demand response, emergency back-up power & energy storage.
As a registered participant in IESO administered energy markets, we support the daily optimization of DER assets post commissioning for our own account, and for third party assets.
A “Great Circle” is a navigation term for the shortest pathway between two points on a sphere.
Great Circle Solar provides a direct, efficient & cost transparent pathway for North American solar sponsors to implement, create and manage Solar and Distributed Energy Resources (DERs).
We provide all functions necessary for institutional investment in the development, structuring procurement, ownership, management and operation of Solar & other Distributed Energy Resource assets (“DERs”).
Operations: Our base business remains the management & operation of solar assets, including BESS (energy storage) and back up power systems. A significant number of these assets are embedded within real estate portfolios.
Development Partnership: The firm is actively developing hosted solar, BESS and onsite back up power systems across most major North American markets.
Now one of the largest external solar platforms for Solar/BESS/DERs, we drive asset creation and operation across all major solar markets in North America.
Great Circle is prepared to step in at any stage of program review. We are especially well suited to supplement your team charged with initiating and scaling solar programs for portfolios of new and existing sites.
From a cold start through to a mature program with multiple operating sites, GCS can work with your team to be sure all specialized capabilities are at the table in a cost-effective way.
Due to our decades plus experience in the solar sector, we know the potential hurdles that developing solar projects will face and can help mitigate their impact.
GCS supports all ownership structures.
We can provide all project capital. Or you can do so and retain full ownership, where we will help you deploy capital on an open book & transparent basis.
Alternatively, we can invest jointly.
Leadership Continuity: Our team is composed of the same senior people who have built our firm for 10+ years.
A decade of operations: 10+ years of multi-season experience in solar after project completion: (subsequent reroofing, removals & replacements projects, spare parts sourcing and costs, property change of ownership support, module and inverter failures, insurance market evolution, weather, snow impacts, site redevelopment, load evolution. etc.)
Cross-functional apprenticeship training: we offer a mix of hands-on, multi-market development roles, combined with operational responsibility overseeing $3 billion+ in operating assets. While we are growing, almost 50% of GCS employees have 5 years+ with the firm.
Culture: Our firm strives hard to be a great place to work, succeed & learn. We seek to do first class business, in a first class way.
Independent & focused: Privately held, the firm has enjoyed 14 years of consecutive growth and profitable operation.
Our firm’s staffing reflects the needs of the full life cycle of equity investment in solar systems and other DER assets.
GCS’s brings to bear capabilities and experience across:
GCS has a leading North American practice for real estate owners.
We currently assist 8+ major third-party real estate portfolios under various stages of program implementation across multiple markets, including California, New Jersey, New York, Illinois, and Canada, typically over multiple year partnerships.
GCS has a track record and platform that has been accepted by multiple premier clients, institutional investors, lenders, and independent engineers, in their due diligence of our firm as a key long-term provider of “material contract scope” for multiple institutional investment vehicles.
Absolutely!
Customer referrals have been our primary source of growth.
Great Circle Solar has grown significantly since its founding in 2010. We are always interested in meeting extraordinary people with strong technical, financial, or commercial experience and an interest in solar and distributed generation.
The firm also runs active internship programs for engineering and business students seeking exposure to renewable energy investment and operational management.
Reach us at hr@greatcirclesolar.com
Head Office Location
330 Bay Street, Suite 1210
Toronto, Ontario
Canada, M5H 2S8
416-365-4227
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