Inc. Names Standard Solar In Top 500

Inc. magazine ranked Standard Solar 73rd on their Top 500 Fastest Growing Companies in America list. Located in Rockville, it’s the highest ranking renewable energy company to make the list. Standard Solar has had exponential growth as they develop and install solar electric systems for commercial, government and residential customers.

Inc. editor Jane Berentson states:

The Inc. 500 consists of these just-short-of miraculous companies, the ones that through ingenuity and ambition have increased revenue, hired employees, and grown fast in difficult economic times.

The company founder, Neville Williams, brought solar electricity to more than a half million people in 11 countries in Asia and Africa during the 1990’s with his company Solar Electric Light Fund. He realized that if poor people in developing countries could buy solar to light their homes, middle-income Americans should be able to do so too. He founded and named his company Standard Solar because he believed solar was going to replace oil one day.

During 2008, Standard Solar was selected to design and install what was then the largest solar electric system between New Jersey and Florida: a 205 kW array atop the U.S. Department of Energy Forrestal Building in DC. They will soon be installing more than 2,000 solar panels at the University of Delaware. They’ve also expanded and added a new division, Standard Energy Solutions, to provide energy auditing.

On Earth Day of this year, Standard Solar did a video from the top of the Rockville Ice Arena. The system is projected to meet about 30% of the Arena’s annual electricity needs and will reduce carbon dioxide (CO2)-equivalent emissions by about 757 tons each year.

Standard Solar describes the solar energy tax incentives for Montgomery County on their website.

Congratulations to Standard Solar!