Leading the Caribbean with Solar Panel Installation
Looking for solar panel installation in the Caribbean? There is no better location for renewable solar, wind, and microgrid energy, especially for your resort or business, than in the islands of unlimited sunshine and breezes. Let Solar Island Energy save your island business time, money and energy by engineering your solar panel and microgrid installation. We are your premier renewable energy company in the Caribbean and beyond!
Originally founded in 2009, Solar Island Energy’s team has vast experience in renewable energy dating back to the early 1990s. Our American headquarters is in Tampa, Florida and our Caribbean office is in Nassau, Bahamas. We have venture partners in San Juan, Puerto Rico, and Basseterre, St Kitts and Nevis.
Who We Are
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Marc Lopata PEPresident and Principal Engineer
Marc is a licensed, Professional Engineer with over 20 years’ experience in engineering, construction, development, renewable energy, and applied sciences. He is a NABCEP-certified Solar Installation Professional, and installed his first solar energy system in 1992. He has participated in the design, construction, or development of hundreds of commercial renewable energy and energy efficiency projects across the country and internationally. Marc is Engineer-of-Record for over 400 solar-PV projects and 10 microgrids. He has implemented over 80 large-scale battery based energy-storage projects totaling over 75 MWh of energy storage capacity, and a dozen utility-scale solar projects. Marc also is a NABCEP-certified Systems Inspector, one of only 40 worldwide.
Prior to being immersed full time in the solar-energy industry, Marc held senior positions with a multinational Fortune-100 corporation, an ENR-100 engineering firm, and an internationally-recognized oceanographic research institution. His responsibilities included managing an annual budget of $200M+ in Construction Management for a global data center provider. These positions ranged from building solar-powered undersea equipment, robotics, instrumentation, and marine equipment to engineering and construction of data centers and telecom infrastructure. This diverse experience is the foundation for his expertise in solar energy, advanced technology, and energy performance of commercial buildings. He is involved in a variety of nonprofit and governmental bodies: including over a decade on Planning & Zoning Commissions and five years on the Board of Directors of the US Green Building Council in St Louis including Board President.
Marc is a regular speaker, presenting training and seminars and participating on panel discussions on renewable energy, energy efficiency, and advanced technology topics to a diverse audience from industry trade groups and non-governmental agencies to firefighters and first responders. He is a solar-energy technical advisor to the World Bank, a peer reviewer of hurricane survivability for both the US Department of Energy, National Renewable Energy Laboratory and the Rocky Mountain Institute and Clinton Climate Initiative. Recently he was a panel member at the 2017 Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum discussing next generation microgrids and in 2018 at the Puerto Rico Solar Energy Industries Association discussing distributed generation, reliability and survivability in the Caribbean.
Education & Licensure
- BS Ocean Engineering – University of Rhode Island and Florida Atlantic University
- MS Civil Engineering – Florida Atlantic University
- Licensed Professional Engineer (New York, Nevada, Missouri, Illinois, Iowa, Florida, Michigan, and NCEES listed)
- LEED Accredited Professional (US Green Building Council), 2006; Board of Directors, 2008-2013
- NABCEP-Certified Solar Installation Professional, 2010
- New York NYSERDA Approved PV Installer, 2012
- Illinois Certified Distributed Generation Installer, 2014
- Missouri Energy Code Governor’s Steering Committee, 2014
- Illinois Grow Solar Commission, 2015
- NESC and IEEE Working Committee on Battery Energy Storage System Safety, 2016
- NABCEP-Certified Photovoltaic System Inspector, 2017
We are licensed in many areas and our portfolio includes over 700 PV projects and over 80 energy storage plants in the Caribbean, North America, Central America, and Middle East. We specialize in the innovative application of proven technologies … we do not use our clients’ projects to experiment with new technology. We have completed many advanced “microgrid” and “diesel-hybrid” projects, including battery storage, fuel cells, electric vehicle charging/storage, and centralized metering of electricity and solar-thermal hot water.
We also have a commissioning team providing agent and forensic services to financial institutions, portfolio managers, building owners, and other solar developers for performance verification, warranty compliance, insurance settlement, and disbursement management.
Because of our caring, professional, highly-skilled teams and our top-performing products, Solar Island Energy attracts and retains the best and brightest talent. Each of us is motivated by our renewable energy and green building mission, creating a unified team across the Caribbean.
Why Solar Island Energy?
We believe every client deserves the highest level of safety, performance, and aesthetics. We are committed to delivering this through our rigorous quality assurance and control program and continuous attention to detail. We work tirelessly to earn your trust and deliver a solar-energy system that exceeds your expectations. Because of this philosophy, we have become one of the leading solar-energy development / engineering / construction companies in the Caribbean.
Solar Island Energy’s solutions will save your Caribbean business money, improve its long-term value, lessen your dependence on fossil fuels, reduce your business risk, and help you lead as a steward of the environment. We are eager to provide a free consultation to assess how you can benefit from solar energy, energy efficiency, and microgrid solutions. Please contact us today and let our skilled team help you meet energy goals.
Contact Us Today
Fossil-fuel energy costs will ALWAYS continue to go up! TODAY is the BEST time to evaluate improving your energy performance. “Waiting” will deliver worse financial performance the longer you wait, because of the time value of money – we can show you why. Also, reducing your fossil fuel electricity usage sooner has another big benefit to the environment – we call it the “time value of carbon-emission reduction”. We thrive on creating the best energy solution for you and your Caribbean business. Contact us today for your free energy evaluation.
