3Phases, Inc. announces a new partnership with electrical contractors to serve large private clients build megawatt-sized solar projects.

The company helps contractors market, finance, guarantee and build large solar development projects that drive benefits for clients over 15-20 year periods as fossil fuel prices escalate. A co-development partnership with 3Phases facilitates all the marketing, financial, legal, administrative and management requirements for large and successful solar projects.

3Phases offers a suite of services including:

Marketing:

• Develop branded materials for contractors
  
• Identify and track key incentive regimes and tariff structures
  
• Define target areas for prospecting
  
• Analyze customer electric load, requirements and solar potential
• Perform building energy efficiency analysis; create reports that drive potential additional (non-solar) electrical work
• Perform all contract negotiations and development
  
• Client Proposal Development:
  
• System sizing and drawings
  
• Financial analysis (escalation rates, cash flows and payback, depreciation, incentives, full net cost detail analysis)
  
• Manufacturing specifications
  
• Procurement research
  
• Energy monitoring options
  
• O&M options

Project Build Services:

• Project oversight and onsite quality assurance
  
• Equipment purchases of major system components and balance of system requirements
  
• Filings for required permits, rebates and incentives with appropriate agencies
  
• Scheduling and completion management

Why work with 3Phases?
Working with an experienced developer, electrical contractors benefit by:

• Getting up the learning curve rapidly in a growing industry
  
• Leveraging underutilized financial and personnel resources
• Strengthening relationships with clients, banks, vendors and labor
• Helping to educate a new workforce and transition to a green collar economy
  
• Creating O&M service contracts to continue servicing clients
  
• Gaining greater market access in rapid fashion

With a 35% compounded annual growth rate through 2013 expected for photovoltaic solar systems, it is time for large electrical contractors to take advantage of an opportunity to build multiple megawatt-sized projects in a co-development partnership with 3Phases.

As the price of solar drops and state and utility incentives grow in the U.S., the economics look more attractive for large corporate customers to own, instead of rent their solar power systems. Large electrical contractors who have the ability to guarantee megawatt sized builds are well positioned for this large potential marketplace.