Success shines on US firm Solect Energy

HOPKINTON, Massachusetts: Now wrapping up its eighth year in business, Hopkinton-based solar new energy-storage division as it looks to continue meeting power

The business, a solar developer and installer that focuses on commercial and institutional customers, has installed more -

Solect Chief Development company has its origins just short of a decade ago, when he and fellow co-founders Ken Driscoll and James Dumas were considering

“We were all from Hopkinton, and we had been involved in were sitting around and thinking

Inspired by an aggressive buildout of solar capacity in Massachusetts, the three opted to pursue what they felt was a gap: the commercial/industrial solar market, which they believed was

“We’ve grown from three guys and a laptop to 80 employees, in such places as Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts and

Operating in Massachusetts - and particularly in MetroW- est - has been advantageous for done an excellent job in making solar power attractive to customers through incentives, and the area is full of rooftops appropriate for

Solect’s new division will have the company selling NEC energy storage equipment as well - an expansion aimed at addressing John Mosher, vice president of the division, said batteries can aid in power grid modernization efforts as more and more conventional sources of power

While certain batteries can be used to provide backup power during blackouts, their main ben

“During certain periods of the

Rather than using power during these more expensive times, Mosher said, a company could tap into the power it has stored in - chusetts, he noted, has quite high

“The MetroWest area, to date, has really embraced solar - we think the same will happen with and storage are part of a compre

SOLECT PHOTO One of Solect Energy’s projects is setting up the solar energy system of North Atlantic Corporation in Massachusetts. The solar set-up of North Atlantic now accounts for 90 percent of the company’s power needs.