The same sunshine that reaches the Hudson Valley also warms the Adirondacks. And now the same businesses that harvest that sunshine for consumers and businesses there will provide the opportunity to benefit from one of the region”™s most experienced solar electric system design and installation company.
Hudson Valley Clean Energy (HVCE) of Rhinebeck has acquired Albany-based Adirondack Solar, taking a leap into the north country from where it was founded in 2002. Terms of the merger were not revealed.
“Joining forces with Adirondack Solar enables us to expand our territory from the Capitol District north into the Adirondacks,” said John Wright, vice president of HVCE. “We”™ve merged two well-experienced solar companies that have proven track records.”
Wright said that in teaming with Adirondack Solar, HVCE has “effectively doubled our service area.” And it will operate another office, in addition to its state of the art zero net energy headquarters in Rhinebeck, HVCE will now also operate the Adirondack Solar portion of the business out of its new office at 125 Wolf Road in Albany.
“The merger of Adirondack Solar and Hudson Valley Clean Energy brings together a synergy in offering customers an unsurpassed solar experience,” said Michael Cellini, director of marketing for Adirondack Solar. “This new relationship creates a benefit to customers from Westchester County up to Lake Placid and from the Massachusetts and Vermont borders out to Utica.”
Their collective knowledge gives customers of the newly joined companies access to an in-depth understanding of the energy needs of New York State customers, said Wright.
“Unlike other out-of-state solar companies who have merged because of financial reasons, Adirondack Solar and Hudson Valley Clean Energy have merged to reach a broader base of customers in bringing clean renewable energy to the masses,” said Cellini. “No other solar company can offer this strength and experience in knowing the upstate residential and commercial needs.”
HVCE has installed over 600 solar systems including most recently the installation of a roof-mounted solar electric system at the Village Green Apartments in Rhinebeck, which will provide 100 percent of the electricity for all of the complex”™s common meters, including common lighting and laundry rooms.
HVCE also just completed a 50-kilowatt solar installation at the First Baptist Church in Rhinebeck, and earlier this year the business completed its biggest project to date: An 80-kilowatt solar energy system at Garelick Farms dairy company in Rensselaer.
The company”™s Rhinebeck headquarters is the first and only zero-net energy building in New York State and the entire Northeast. The carbon-free building generates more energy than it consumes with systems using solar electricity, geothermal heating and cooling and solar hot water.
