Solar and Storage

Strategic infrastructure and integrated distributed energy resources.

Advanced Energy Infrastructure

Energy resiliency and availability is pushing the importance of strategic distributed energy resource (DER) deployment. McKinstry delivers spanning development, design, financing, construction, permitting, commissioning, interconnection and ongoing maintenance across solar, battery energy storage and beyond.

McKinstry is one of the largest commercial installers in the U.S. with more than 1GW of successful DER deployments nationwide. Our client projects include ground-mount, rooftop and carport solar systems along with battery energy storage, microgrids and utility-scale distributed generation projects.

Power When and Where You Need It

McKinstry develops and delivers distributed energy resources and advanced energy infrastructure that supplies, power when and where you need it. Our integrated approach optimizes your energy consumption before designing generation and storage options with guaranteed performance for the life of your assets. The result provides decarbonization, energy certainty, operating resiliency and cost predictability.

Increased Value Generation

Our integrated, holistic approach pushes what’s possible for building, campus and community DER deployment. Whether it’s 200kW or 200MW, we evaluate your needs and engineer systems that work seamlessly across your built environment. You get an optimal strategy that maximizes your investment while protecting assets long term.

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Demand Savings and Resiliency

McKinstry deploys solar+storage and standalone battery energy storage systems to reduce demand and provide resiliency for critical operations. Our solutions are tailored for your facility’s unique needs—whether that’s lowering utility costs, providing backup power or both. We engineer systems that deliver energy certainty and operational continuity.

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Beyond Solar and Storage

Our expertise goes deeper than solar and storage alone. We design and deliver advanced energy assets across geothermal, fuel cells, advanced building controls, grid integration gateways and much more. McKinstry evaluates what technologies work best for your organization and develops comprehensive funding strategies that align with your budget realities and project goals.

Ongoing Aftercare Support

You deserve a trusted partner with expertise across the complete project lifecycle. Our relationship doesn’t end after deployment. McKinstry provides an array of aftercare support across operations, maintenance, issues management and warranty services. Expect a single point of accountability from initial concept through decades of operations.

Focused Community Impact

Renewable energy projects not only reduce operating costs, but can also provide significant, tangible benefits for your community. Through our impact initiatives, we work with clients to set and achieve diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) goals, identify and hire local contractors, create workforce training opportunities and develop strategies to build community understanding and support of the project.

Integrated End-to-End Delivery

McKinstry goes beyond equipment delivery and installation. We are a national leader in the design, construction and ongoing maintenance of high-performance facilities and energy infrastructure. Our broad capabilities lend deeper understanding of renewable energy project implications on your total built environment.

New Construction: Distributed energy resources like solar and storage future proof your new construction investment. Our process is grounded in engineering analysis. Informed decisions allow you to choose the right strategies and systems to meet required flexibility, resiliency, performance and pro-forma needs. Everything is done with an eye toward future policy, technology and trends to ensure projects are durable and cost effective for your long-term operations.

Existing Buildings: Decarbonizing existing buildings is a deliberate journey spanning multiple years tied to incremental capital projects, replacements and retrofits over time. Our approach incorporates capital planning and long-term vision to enhance occupant performance, business continuity and community resiliency while meeting decarbonization milestones every step of the way.

Campuses and Portfolios: Campuses and portfolios create economies of scale by mixing new construction and existing buildings into a comprehensive energy infrastructure approach. The best strategy integrates solar, battery storage and other resources into a shared energy district that does not rely on isolated measures and systems.

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Solar photovoltaics (PV)

Solar + storage

Distributed generation

Community solar

Large ground mount systems

Battery energy storage systems

Thermal energy storage systems

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Electric vehicle (EV) charging infrastructure

Geothermal energy

Engineering and design

Energy resiliency planning

Electrification and decarbonatization

Portfolio assessments

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Utility interconnection and net metering planning

Land acquisition and development

Finance strategy and facilitation

Utility grants, rebates and incentives

Strategic purchasing

Commissioning

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Commercial and Industrial

New building construction

Existing building construction

Portfolio or campus

Shared-energy districts

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Commercial office

State and local government

Healthcare

Life sciences

Multi-site enterprises

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Data centers

Higher education

K-12 school districts

Airports and transportation

Distribution centers

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Engineer, procure, construct (EPC)

Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS)

Energy savings performance contracting (ESPC)

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Power purchase agreements (PPAs)

Professional services consulting

Design-build (DB)

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Progressive design-build

Qualification-based selection

Development services agreements

“McKinstry created a complex but highly impactful project for the Denver community. Thank you for being an excellent partner. I look forward to building our first set of community solar projects and hope that we will be approved for more soon.”

– Jonathan Rogers, Directory of Mobility and Energy Transition at the City and County of Denver

Ready to Develop Your Energy Infrastructure?

No matter your DER need, our team can help navigate complexity, develop funding strategies and deliver infrastructure that performs.


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