Crawford Renewable Energy Solutions, LLC

Crawford Renewable Energy Solutions, LLC (“CREnergy”) is a multidisciplinary firm specializing in utility-scale solar power development, environmental consulting, and project management.  Our unique expertise provides our clients with the highest quality services that are essential to the success of their renewable energy projects.      CREnergy’s forward thinking, cutting-edge business model is unlike any other company in the solar and environmental industry.  We use a “System’s Approach” -- a bottoms up approach to project development, to find solutions that work within the current systems in place for a project, while taking all stakeholders and their bottom line criteria into account.  Results of implementing this “Systems Approach” have proven 100% success, with guaranteed stakeholder and client satisfaction.       From 2010-2013, our leadership facilitated the birth of Utility-scale solar in the state of Georgia, growth of the market in a struggling Georgia solar industry, and acceptance of solar by Georgia Power Company as a reliable source of power to include in its energy mix.  Currently, Georgia Power is in the process of procuring approximately 900 MW’s of solar energy by the end of 2016.         We thrive on challenges and new ideas.  We strive to set new standards in excellence in every project we pursue.   We deliver success.  We look forward to have the opportunity to show you why we have been able to achieve so much, as we continue to pave the path forward in the U.S. Solar Market.

OUR PROMISE:

• Top knowledge & highly educated in all areas in which we specialize
• We produce the highest quality of excellence in all of our work, and nothing less  
• We pride ourselves on our professional business and work ethic as core values of our Company  
• Our leadership developed the first utility-scale solar PV projects with Georgia Power, resulting in a 20 MW portfolio of projects in the state of Georgia, all of which successfully reached Commercial Operation in 2012 and 2013
• Our business model was developed by taking lessons learned from previous projects and focuses on increasing time and cost efficiency of each element of project development
• We have had 100% success in every Project we have pursued

Kendal M. Crawford Chief Executive Officer                                                                                                                            CREnergy is the most recent company founded by Kendal M. Crawford.  Kendal is a business savvy entrepreneur with an avid focus on the sustainability of our planet’s future.  Kendal received her Master’s degree in Environmental Management from Harvard University in of 2009. She then began her career as an environmental consultant for an established international environmental consulting firm, where she served as a consultant to some of the nation’s leading commercial and industrial corporations, acquiring and managing projects as large as $50 million.     In 2010, she began a start-up solar power development company, Solar Design & Development, LLC.  Her dedication, hard work, and expertise resulted in the acquisition of (4) twenty year Power Purchase Agreements (“PPA’s”), for (3) distributed generation solar PV projects with Georgia Power, and the successful development of (20) Megawatts (“MW’s”) of large-scale solar.  A first for Georgia Power, and true success story for the solar industry and state of Georgia.       Ms. Crawford has unprecedented knowledge and experience of the procedural requirements and due diligence involved in working with utility-scale solar power projects, more so than any other solar power developer in the state of Georgia.      Crawford Renewable Energy was founded based on a new application of solar that Ms. Crawford began developing in December, 2012.  CREnergy’s mission is to apply this proprietary method of solar PV development on a large-scale basis, with the ultimate goal of revolutionizing the energy industry as we know it today.   

SERVICES

CREnergy offers a wide range of solutions in both solar PV development and environmental consulting.  We combine our expertise in both fields to ensure compliance with local, state, and federal permitting regulations throughout project development activities, while minimizing environmental impacts through the incorporation of Best Management Practices.      Our services can be implemented on an individual basis, per project basis, or multi-project basis, in order to increase efficiency and allow for the flexibility of various time and cost considerations required to meet each client’s bottom line criteria and unique project needs.

We have significant experience in Utility-scale Solar PV Development. We offer both turnkey and/or individual services pertaining to any or all of the following solar power development activities:

• Project Origination/Front-End Development

• Project Planning & Development

• Project Management

• Company Formation & Organizational Structure

• Government Registration & Regulatory Compliance

• Property Acquisition/ Site Control

• Project Proposals – RFQ’s & RFP’s

• Project Investment/Financing

• General Project Consulting

• Milestone Achievement

• Contract Development & Negotiations

• EPC & Third Party Subcontractor Relations

• Investor/Utility Due Diligence

• Power Purchase Agreement (“PPA”) Acquisition

• Small Generator & Large Generator Interconnection Procedures & Compliance

• Interconnection Agreement Acquisition

• Utility PPA & Interconnection Agreement (“IA”) Negotiations

• Incentive Capture

• Grant Writing

• Project Budgeting & Financial Modeling

• Environmental Compliance

• Permitting/Zoning/Taxes

• Transmission Line & Substation Development

• Project Commissioning/ Commercial Operation