SOLON Signals Expansion Plans, Taps Jared Schoch as VP and GM of Power Plants

SOLON Corporation, one of the largest providers of turnkey solar power plants and photovoltaic (PV) products in the U.S., announced the hiring of Jared Schoch as vice president and general manager of the Power Plants business. Schoch will oversee the company’s commercial and utility-scale power plants and focus on expanding SOLON’s power plant business in the Americas.

“Jared’s demonstrated leadership in developing and expanding energy services markets makes him the ideal person to lead SOLON’s power plants unit at a time when we are highly focused on our national expansion plans,” said Dan Alcombright, president and CEO of SOLON Corporation. “SOLON is aggressively hiring, with open positions to support its business expansion throughout the U.S.”

Prior to joining SOLON, Schoch spent four and a half years dramatically growing SunEdison’s commercial and utility-scale solar development businesses throughout the U.S., most recently as a managing director. Previously, he spent nearly six years as a leader in business development at Johnson Controls in energy efficiency services, and prior to that as a marketing consultant launching various products and services in the high tech space during the 1990s. He has managed more than 1 GW of solar project opportunities working with utilities, school districts, cities, counties, hospitals, federal agencies and industrial clients throughout the U.S.

“I relish the opportunity to help expand on SOLON’s success in the Southwest and chart a path to become one of the top solar developers in the country,” said Schoch. “SOLON has delivered the right solutions at the right time for the last 15 years. Not many companies have done that consistently, and I believe we will continue adding the right ingredients to keep doing that for years to come.”

SOLON has built nearly 100 MW of commercial and utility-scale solar power plants mostly in the sun-drenched states of Arizona, California and Colorado. Its power plant business offers turnkey solutions including development, design, finance, engineering, procurement, construction, monitoring and operations and maintenance services.