Most commercial buyers checking out a utility solar contractor in Georgia want the same thing: evidence that the contractor can get a project through the utility's review without the schedule falling apart. OneWorld Solar's answer to that is 1.2 MW of ground mount solar built across four Georgia Power locations.
Working for the utility itself is a particular kind of reference. A utility does not relax its construction, protection or interconnection standards when the customer is its own facilities department. If anything it is stricter, because the people signing off the work wrote the rules.
The problem: the reviewer and the customer are the same organization
On a normal commercial project there is a useful separation. You design and build for the customer, and the utility reviews the interconnection at arm's length. When the customer is the utility, that separation disappears. The construction standard, the protection settings, the labeling, the grounding, the site access rules and the commissioning record are all judged by the organization that defined them.
That changes what the job asks for. It rewards contractors who document properly and who understand the interconnection process as engineering rather than as paperwork someone else deals with. It punishes anyone who treats a stamped drawing as a formality.
These figures come from the previous website
The 1.2 MW capacity and the four-location count are carried over from the legacy OneWorld Solar site and have not been re-confirmed against project records. They are marked for verification, along with the site locations, and should not be quoted in a proposal or a press release until Doug confirms them.
The solution: four ground mount arrays to a utility standard
1.2 MW
Combined ground mount capacity
Legacy figure, pending verification.
4
Georgia Power locations
Site count pending verification.
Ground mount
Structure at every site
Fixed-tilt arrays on utility property.
Ground mount arrays across four separate sites are a portfolio problem before they are an engineering one: four sets of site conditions, four foundation designs, four points of interconnection and four commissioning packages, held to one standard. That is exactly the work a commercial solar EPC contract exists to absorb — one contractor carrying engineering, procurement, construction and interconnection instead of a general contractor coordinating three specialists.
The interconnection engineering behind projects of this type is led by Chris Sandifer, our VP of Engineering, a Professional Engineer licensed in six states and a NABCEP-certified photovoltaic system inspector who has worked on medium- and high-voltage interconnections of utility-scale generators since 1992. His background is set out on the OneWorld Solar leadership page.
The results
OneWorld Solar has not published production or bill-savings figures for this installation. The scope described above is what the company confirms; anything beyond it should come from OneWorld Solar directly.
What the project supports is narrower and more useful than a savings number: a utility in Georgia contracted this company to build generation on its own property, and the work was completed to the standards that utility sets.
What this means if you are buying solar in Georgia
If you are a public sector body, an institution or a business whose procurement requires evidence rather than enthusiasm, this is the reference worth asking about. The questions to put to any bidder are simple: who signs your drawings, who runs your interconnection applications, and what have they built under utility review.
- See the industries we build for in commercial solar by industry, from agriculture to manufacturing.
- A smaller, privately owned example of the same structure is the 117 kW ground mount at Swainsboro Supply Company.
- For a private business, the 30% commercial solar tax credit is what reshapes the capital case; utilities and tax-exempt owners follow different rules, and your finance team should confirm which apply.
- The rest of our commercial solar installation work in Georgia runs from Vidalia across the state.