# OneWorld Solar > Commercial solar EPC contractor serving Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina and the Caribbean. Founded 2001 — the oldest solar company in the Southeast. Disabled veteran-owned. Designs, builds and interconnects commercial solar arrays, three-phase hybrid battery storage, micro-grids and power factor correction, typically from 100 kW to just over 1 MW. OneWorld Solar, LLC, 609 Church Street, Vidalia, GA 30474. Telephone 770-490-2585. Email doug@owsolar.com. Key facts, all from the company's own material: - Founded 2001; acquired by Doug Baird in October 2017 and rebuilt around commercial and agricultural customers - Over 7.8 MW installed for commercial solar and battery customers; 300+ customers; $7.8M revenue in 2024 - Two patents on solar racking, awarded 2020 and 2025 - Largest single installation: 1.267 MW of rooftop solar plus 55,000 lb of BatteryCube® battery storage for Samsonite/TUMI in Vidalia, Georgia - Over 4.8 MW installed on U.S. poultry houses - Professional Engineer on staff licensed in SC, NC, FL, GA, VA and TX; NABCEP board-certified PV System Inspector Note for anyone quoting figures from this site: savings, payback periods and incentive amounts are estimates. Grants and tax credits are the customer's to procure and validate. The full disclaimer is at https://www.owsolar.com/disclaimer. ## Services - [Commercial Solar EPC Contractor for the Southeast](https://www.owsolar.com/services/commercial-solar-epc): One contract, one accountable party: engineering, procurement, construction, interconnection and commissioning for commercial solar arrays from 100 kW to multi-megawatt. - [Commercial Battery Storage Installation in the Southeast](https://www.owsolar.com/services/battery-storage): Three-phase hybrid battery systems sized from your interval data, built to hold down demand charges and keep critical loads running when the grid does not. - [Commercial Microgrid Installer for Sites That Cannot Go Dark](https://www.owsolar.com/services/micro-grids): Islandable solar and battery micro-grids that separate the loads you cannot lose from the ones you can, and carry them through an outage without a fuel delivery. - [Power Factor Correction Services for Commercial Sites](https://www.owsolar.com/services/power-factor-correction): The cheapest fix on most commercial power bills. Correcting a poor power factor removes the utility penalty and often pays back faster than solar, so it should usually be done first. ## Products - [BatteryCube® Commercial Battery Energy Storage System](https://www.owsolar.com/batterycube): OneWorld Solar's own line of outdoor pad-mounted battery cabinets, built around CATL cells. 55,000 lb of BatteryCube storage is in service at the Samsonite and TUMI site in Vidalia, Georgia. ## Industries served - [Solar Panels for Poultry Farms and Chicken Houses](https://www.owsolar.com/industries/poultry): Over 4.8 MW installed on U.S. poultry houses. Broiler and breeder houses have long metal roofs and a daytime fan load that lines up almost perfectly with the sun. We have installed over 4.8 MW on U.S… - [Solar for Car Dealerships and Auto Groups](https://www.owsolar.com/industries/automotive): 1 MW+ installed across the Woody Folsom Automotive Group. Dealerships burn power all day for showroom HVAC, lighting and service bays, then all night for lot lighting. We have built more than 1 MW ac… - [Solar for Hotels and Resorts in the Southeast and Caribbean](https://www.owsolar.com/industries/hospitality): 800 kW at the Westin Dawn Beach Resort & Spa, St. Maarten. Hotels run 24/7 and guest comfort is not negotiable. We built 800 kW at the Westin Dawn Beach Resort & Spa in St. Maarten and work across Fl… - [Solar for Manufacturing Facilities and Warehouses](https://www.owsolar.com/industries/manufacturing): 1.267 MW plus 55,000 lb of battery storage for Samsonite/TUMI. A distribution center roof is usually the largest unused asset a manufacturer owns. We built 1.267 MW of rooftop solar and 55,000 lb of… ## Where the company works - [Commercial Solar Installation Georgia Businesses Can Bank On](https://www.owsolar.com/commercial-solar-installation-georgia): Georgia is three electricity markets, not one. We design commercial solar around the utility that actually serves your meter — Georgia Power, an EMC or a municipal system — from our home office in Vi… - [Commercial Solar Installation Florida: Built for Hurricane Country](https://www.owsolar.com/commercial-solar-installation-florida): Florida commercial solar lives or dies on two things the brochure never mentions: uplift under hurricane wind loads and what salt air does to fasteners. We engineer for both, in investor-owned and mu… - [Commercial Solar Installation South Carolina: Engineering First](https://www.owsolar.com/commercial-solar-installation-south-carolina): South Carolina has four kinds of utility and four sets of rules. We bring a PE licensed in the state, a working relationship with Santee Cooper, and a straight account of what we have and have not bu… - [Commercial Solar Installation North Carolina: Licensed and Sealed](https://www.owsolar.com/commercial-solar-installation-north-carolina): North Carolina work is governed by Duke's interconnection process and by who is licensed to sign for it. Our VP of Engineering has held an NC Unlimited electrical contractor certificate since 1992 an… - [Commercial Solar Installation Caribbean: Island Grids and Storms](https://www.owsolar.com/commercial-solar-installation-caribbean): Island power is expensive, the grid is small and fossil-fueled, and the weather is the design case. That changes the economics of commercial solar in the Caribbean, and it changes what you have to bu… ## Incentives - [USDA REAP Grant Solar Funding for Farms and Rural Businesses](https://www.owsolar.com/incentives/usda-reap-grant): The Rural Energy for America Program offers grants and guaranteed loans toward renewable energy systems for agricultural producers and rural small businesses. It is competitive, scored and awarded be… - [Commercial Solar Tax Credit: 30% Federal ITC for Businesses](https://www.owsolar.com/incentives/federal-solar-tax-credit): The federal investment tax credit reduces tax owed rather than income taxed, which makes it far more valuable than a deduction — and worthless to an entity with no liability. Here is how the structur… - [Section 179 Solar Depreciation, Bonus Depreciation and MACRS](https://www.owsolar.com/incentives/section-179-solar): Section 179 expensing, bonus depreciation and MACRS are three separate mechanisms that most business owners treat as one. The difference between them decides how much of a solar array you write off,… ## Case studies - [Samsonite / TUMI Luggage — 1.267 MW, Vidalia, Georgia](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/samsonite-tumi-1267kw-rooftop-solar-battery): The largest single installation OneWorld Solar has built: 1.267 MW of rooftop solar over a working distribution center, paired with 55,000 lb of BatteryCube® storage using CATL cells. - [Woody Folsom Automotive Group — 1 MW+, Baxley and Vidalia, Georgia](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/woody-folsom-automotive-1mw-solar): More than 1 MW of rooftop solar across the Woody Folsom Chevrolet, Ford and Chrysler Dodge dealerships in Georgia — three roofs run as a single engineering and construction program. - [The Westin Dawn Beach Resort & Spa — 800 kW, St. Maarten](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/westin-dawn-beach-resort-800kw-solar): The largest hospitality system OneWorld Solar has built: 800 kW of rooftop solar on an operating beachfront resort in St. Maarten, engineered for island grid economics and Caribbean wind loads. - [Virgin Islands Port Authority — 451.5 kW, St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/virgin-islands-port-authority-451kw-solar): 451.5 kW of ground mount solar for a public authority on St. Thomas: coastal siting, salt-air corrosion, hurricane-zone structural design and a procurement process run in public. - [14-house broiler farm — 450 kW, Southeast Georgia](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/poultry-450kw-14-house-broiler-solar): The largest poultry site OneWorld Solar has built to date: 450 kW of rooftop solar spread across all 14 houses on a southeast Georgia broiler farm, delivered under one EPC contract. - [6-house breeder farm — 210 kW, Southeast Georgia](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/poultry-210kw-6-house-breeder-solar): A 210 kW rooftop array across six breeder houses in southeast Georgia — the densest per-house sizing of the poultry farms we publish, and a different load profile from a broiler operation. - [Swainsboro Supply Company — 117 kW, Swainsboro, Georgia](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/swainsboro-supply-117kw-ground-mount-solar): A 117 kW ground mount array for Swainsboro Supply Company in Swainsboro, Georgia. Its president is on record: nearly no maintenance issues and about $1,800 a month off the power bill. - [Valencia College — 102 kW, Orlando, Florida](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/valencia-college-102kw-rooftop-solar): 102 kW of rooftop solar on a working college campus in Orlando, built around the academic calendar and signed off by a facilities team that had to keep classes running. - [Georgia Power — 1.2 MW, Four sites across Georgia](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/georgia-power-1-2mw-ground-mount-solar): Ground mount solar totalling 1.2 MW across four Georgia Power locations. Building for the utility itself means being held to the standards the utility applies to everyone else. - [16-house broiler farm — 410 kW, Southeast Georgia](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/poultry-410kw-16-house-broiler-solar): A 410 kW rooftop array spread over 16 broiler houses in southeast Georgia — the lowest per-house sizing of the three poultry farms we publish, and a useful lesson in what actually caps an array. - [Headquarter Honda — 127 kW, Clermont, Florida](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/headquarter-honda-127kw-rooftop-solar): 127 kW of rooftop solar on a Honda dealership in Clermont, Florida: showroom cooling, service bays, manufacturer image standards, and an honest note about the lot lighting solar does not touch. - [Orlando Utilities Commission — 32 kW, Orlando, Florida](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/orlando-utilities-commission-32kw-solar-canopy): A 32 kW solar canopy for Orlando Utilities Commission, the utility that writes the interconnection standard we had to build to. Also: what a canopy does that a roof mount cannot. - [Tampa Electric — Manatee Viewing Center — 32 kW, Apollo Beach, Tampa, Florida](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/teco-manatee-viewing-center-32kw-solar): A 32 kW pole top array at a public visitor center on a protected stretch of the Tampa Bay shoreline, where roof and ground area were both constrained. - [Homewood Suites by Hilton — 23 kW, Savannah, Georgia](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/homewood-suites-hilton-23kw-solar): A 23 kW roof mount array on a franchised hotel in Savannah: brand standards, franchisor approval, a 24/7 load, and an honest look at where the economics come from at this size. - [Coastal Carolina University — 15 kW, Conway, South Carolina](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/coastal-carolina-university-15kw-solar): A 15 kW demonstration-scale roof mount array at Coastal Carolina University, engineered under a Professional Engineer licensed in South Carolina, and an honest account of why small campus systems are… - [Mike Reynolds — donated system — 10 kW, Georgia](https://www.owsolar.com/projects/wounded-warrior-10kw-solar-donation): OneWorld Solar donated a 10 kW ground mount solar array to Mike Reynolds, who was seriously injured in Iraq by an IED, and his family. ## Articles - [Battery Storage for Businesses: When Does It Pay Off?](https://www.owsolar.com/insights/commercial-battery-storage-payback): A battery only pays for itself if your utility bill is paying for something a battery can change. Here is how to read your own tariff for demand charges, ratchets and time-of-use pricing before anyon… - [How Much Does Commercial Solar Cost per kW in Georgia?](https://www.owsolar.com/insights/commercial-solar-cost-per-kw-georgia): An honest breakdown of commercial solar cost per kW in Georgia: why price per watt falls with system size, what the line items actually are, which four variables swing a quote, and how to compare two… - [Solar for Poultry Farms: What 4.8 MW of Installations Taught Us](https://www.owsolar.com/insights/solar-for-poultry-farms-cost-and-results): Three installed poultry systems — 210 kW on six breeder houses, 450 kW on fourteen broiler houses, 410 kW on sixteen — and what the differences between them tell you about sizing, cost and payback on… - [Solar Payback Period for Car Dealerships: Real Numbers](https://www.owsolar.com/insights/solar-payback-car-dealerships): Dealerships have an unusually good load profile for solar: the building draws hardest exactly when the sun is up. Here is what that does to payback, where the roof runs out, and why lot lighting and… - [Commercial Solar Tax Credit + Section 179: Stacking Incentives](https://www.owsolar.com/insights/stacking-solar-tax-credit-section-179): The investment tax credit, Section 179 and bonus depreciation are three different mechanisms, not one. Here is the order they apply in, why the credit shrinks your depreciable basis, and a fully illu… - [How to Apply for a USDA REAP Grant for Solar](https://www.owsolar.com/insights/usda-reap-grant-application-guide): What a REAP grant application for solar actually involves, in order: rural eligibility, the energy assessment or audit, the technical report, SAM registration, matching funds, the environmental revie… ## People - [Doug Baird, Chief Executive Officer](https://www.owsolar.com/about#doug-baird): Doug Baird acquired OneWorld in October 2017 and rebuilt it into a commercial solar EPC doing $7.8M a year. He holds two solar racking patents (2020 and 2025) and is a disabled U.S. Army combat engineer officer and Gulf War veteran. - [Chris Sandifer, VP of Engineering](https://www.owsolar.com/about#chris-sandifer): Chris Sandifer has designed and interconnected medium- and high-voltage renewable generation since 1992. He is a Professional Engineer in six states, a NABCEP board-certified Photovoltaic System Inspector, and a North Carolina Licensed Electrical Contractor with the Unlimited Classification. ## Tools and company pages - [Commercial solar savings calculator](https://www.owsolar.com/calculator): Estimates system size, annual saving, the federal tax credit and a payback range from an average monthly electricity bill. Every assumption is published on the page. - [All commercial solar projects](https://www.owsolar.com/projects): The full portfolio, filterable by industry and location. - [About OneWorld Solar](https://www.owsolar.com/about): Company history, leadership credentials and community work. - [Contact](https://www.owsolar.com/contact): Enquiry form, address, phone and driving directions. - [Financial projections disclaimer](https://www.owsolar.com/disclaimer): Applies to every savings or incentive figure on the site. ## Optional - [Full text of every page](https://www.owsolar.com/llms-full.txt): The complete site content as a single markdown file. - [XML sitemap](https://www.owsolar.com/sitemap.xml): Every URL with last-modified dates. Last updated: 2026-07-30