A local developer for local infrastructure.
Ohmic Solar is a California-owned, California-operated renewable energy company. We were founded on a simple idea: California's clean energy transition shouldn't only happen at gigawatt scale.
The niche.
California has a clean energy mandate, an aging grid, and a lot of empty desert. The state's largest developers are building gigawatt projects on federal land. Residential solar installers are putting panels on roofs. In between sits a category of project that almost no one is building well — small utility-scale solar farms, in the 1 to 10 MW range, on private parcels next to existing distribution lines.
These are the projects that bring real generation to local circuits, deliver competitive power, and keep development dollars in the communities they serve. They're also the projects where local knowledge, careful permitting, and patient capital matter most.
That's the niche Ohmic Solar was built for.
Two founders. One Goal.
Four convictions.
- 01
Local development is better development.
People who live in a community make better decisions about its land than developers flying in from out of state.
- 02
Small projects have real value.
A 2.5 MW solar farm on a vacant parcel doesn't make headlines, but it puts clean power on a local circuit and rent on a local landowner's check. Multiply that across the desert and the math gets serious.
- 03
Transparency is non-negotiable.
With the county, with neighbors, with biological consultants, with the utility. The shortcuts that some developers take are the reason others can't get permits.
- 04
Environmental review is a feature, not a hurdle.
Protocol-level desert tortoise surveys, cultural resource studies, drainage analysis — these are how you build something that lasts.