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:

• technological suitability screening,
• grid interconnect,
• site feasibility & design
• financial analysis
• subtrade selection, RFPs, project management & construction oversight,
• direct procurement of major equipment and services
• tenant engagement support
• asset acceptance
• power offtake structuring
• renewable energy credit / tax incentive programs
• general asset and operational management services
• lender & insurance management
• special purpose vehicle, or LP management and administration
• financial reporting, compliance, audits
• engineering, technical & environmental
• operations & maintenance
• capacity & energy market dispatch
• permitting & regulatory compliance
• asset valuation 

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.