(859) 487-5027 service@center4solar.com
Center For Solar
Start a project

(859) 487-5027
service@center4solar.com

651 Perimeter Drive, Suite 440
Lexington, KY 40517

Our team

The people who read the fine print for you

Our team of solar consultants in Lexington, Kentucky is small on purpose: seven people, each bringing a different kind of attention, with every model checked by two of them.

Six hands holding different instruments around one shared paper sun
The idea

A good decision needs more than one kind of attention: the analyst's, the organizer's, the skeptic's.

Our team of solar consultants is seven people working from one Lexington, Kentucky office: a principal advisor, a performance analyst, a procurement researcher, a project coordinator, a sustainability specialist, a rural advisor and the person who usually answers the phone first. Their bios are below. First, here’s how we work together, because the process protects you more than any one résumé does.

How our team of solar consultants in Lexington, Kentucky works

Two sets of eyes on every model

One person builds every financial model and production baseline, and a second person checks it before it reaches you. The checker doesn’t just proofread. They rebuild the numbers that drive the answer: first-year production, the export credit, the escalator, the year cash flow turns positive. If the two results disagree, we find out why before you see either one.

The most expensive mistake in a solar model is rarely a typo. It’s an assumption nobody wrote down.

The assumptions page

That’s why every report includes a single page listing the assumptions behind it, including utility rate escalation, panel degradation, how long you plan to stay, the export credit on your meter and the financing terms. Maren Holloway signs off on that page before a report goes out. If you’d assume something different, you can see what changes. Our sample reports show what the page looks like.

The “what we’d ask a licensed professional” list

Our work stops where licensed work begins, and we’re precise about that line. So most reports end with a short list of questions for the right professional: an electrician about panel capacity, an engineer about the roof, an attorney about a lease clause, a CPA about depreciation. You walk into that meeting prepared. Our scope of services explains where the line sits.

Your first conversation will usually be with Jenna Morrow, who schedules fit calls and makes sure the right advisor leads your project. Nobody on the team earns a commission, as our independence pledge explains.

The people

Who you'll work with

Every engagement has a lead and a second reviewer. Here is who sits around the table.

Illustrated portrait of Maren Holloway, Principal Advisor

Maren Holloway

Principal Advisor

Maren leads every engagement's financial model and signs off on the assumptions page before a report leaves the building. She has spent her career turning utility bills, tariff sheets and lender term sheets into plain cash-flow tables, and she is the person most likely to ask what happens to your numbers in year nineteen. She started Center For Solar because she kept meeting Kentucky homeowners and business owners who had been given a payment, not an analysis.

Focus: Financial feasibility, proposal reviews, ownership comparisons
Reach: service@center4solar.com

Illustrated portrait of Theo Okafor, Performance Analytics Lead

Theo Okafor

Performance Analytics Lead

Theo reads inverter exports and monitoring dashboards the way a mechanic listens to an engine. He builds the expected-production baselines we compare real systems against, and he has a soft spot for orphaned systems whose owners lost their monitoring login when the installer disappeared. His reports always end with a short list of what to ask a qualified technician, and what not to pay for.

Focus: Production data, monitoring platforms, system health checks
Reach: support@center4solar.com

Illustrated portrait of Lucía Brandt, Procurement and Vendor Research Manager

Lucía Brandt

Procurement & Vendor Research Manager

Lucía runs our requests for proposals and turns stacks of differently formatted quotes into one comparable table. She tracks equipment availability, warranty terms and the paperwork trail that commercial buyers now need for every major component. She believes the most valuable line in any bid is the one that isn't there.

Focus: Installer RFPs, bid leveling, equipment and supply-chain documentation
Reach: service@center4solar.com

Illustrated portrait of Calvin Rudd, Project Coordination Manager

Calvin Rudd

Project Coordination Manager

Calvin keeps the paper moving. He assembles application packets, maintains the document log, follows up with utilities, local offices and associations, and makes sure the licensed professionals on a project have what they need when they need it. He is the reason our clients get a status update before they think to ask for one.

Focus: Permit and interconnection paperwork, approval packets, deadline tracking
Reach: support@center4solar.com

Illustrated portrait of Priya Venkataraman, Sustainability Reporting Lead

Priya Venkataraman

Sustainability Reporting Lead

Priya translates electricity data into the emissions figures that customers, lenders and boards ask about, using published methodologies and showing every factor she relies on. She works most often with Kentucky manufacturers and suppliers who have just received their first sustainability questionnaire and need a credible, repeatable answer rather than a glossy one.

Focus: Scope 2 accounting, renewable energy tracking, supplier questionnaires
Reach: service@center4solar.com

Illustrated portrait of Wes Caudill, Rural and Agricultural Advisor

Wes Caudill

Rural & Agricultural Advisor

Wes grew up around tobacco barns and poultry houses and still thinks in terms of planting windows and fan schedules. He helps farm families compare land lease offers against their own operations, map farm loads against solar production, and prepare the questions to bring to their attorney and accountant. He knows which co-op serves which hollow.

Focus: Farm energy use, land lease offer comparisons, co-op territories
Reach: service@center4solar.com

Illustrated portrait of Jenna Morrow, Client Experience Coordinator

Jenna Morrow

Client Experience Coordinator

Jenna is usually the first person you'll talk to. She schedules fit calls, sends the document checklist, keeps your files organized and makes sure the right advisor is on your project. If you are not sure where to start, start with her.

Focus: First conversations, scheduling, document intake
Reach: welcome@center4solar.com

How we work

Four habits that hold no matter who leads your project.

01

One lead, one checker

Each project has a named lead and a second reviewer who rebuilds the key numbers independently before anything reaches you.

04

Updates before you ask

While work is underway, you hear from us on a set day each week, even when the update is that we're still waiting on a utility.

Next step

Talk to the team

Your first call is free, takes about 20 minutes, and ends with an honest answer about whether we can help.

Related

Keep exploring

Call Start a project