The GIRS Team
With the help of our extensive network of renewable-energy experts, GIRS has conducted extensive research into the entire renewable industry. After carefully evaluating many companies in each sector of the industry, along with the quality of their products and services, pricing, support, warranties, honesty, and reputation, we selected the
best company in each sector to be our permanent partner. This team of companies works with us on every project we do. It makes IRS the first
fully integrated renewable company in the world.
Why Were the World’s Leading Companies So Eager to Join the GIRS Team?
While the best renewable companies have done a bit of business in the Middle East, American companies have mostly been shut out. They are eager to get back in, if terms permit. Our close relationships with prominent public and private individuals and organizations throughout the Middle East allow us to negotiate the favorable terms needed. Therefore, these leading American companies see our opportunities as having great potential for them. They give us lowest possible pricing and priority delivery. These low prices often make their top-quality products less expensive than the cheapest alternatives.
Our partner companies have long suffered from the segmentation and immaturity of the renewable energy field. They always have to work with different companies on each project, usually not the companies they would choose to partner with, but based on the lowest bid for a project. This leads to arguments about scopes of work, costs, control, and quality. They rarely get the chance to work with another company often enough to develop a good working relationship or effective means of collaboration. GIRS gives them the chance to do their best work under ideal conditions with partners of equal caliber, with confidence that their good products and work will not be spoiled by poor quality from other companies.
As part of the GIRS team, they no longer need go through expensive and usually futile competitive bidding processes. The projects are brought to them. The overall integration, coordination, and management of the projects is handled professionally by GIRS, whom they trust because of our long working and personal relationships with their senior management. The result is that our partner companies all think it’s about time somebody formed a comprehensive integration company like GIRS. It’s just what they’ve been waiting for.
As a result of this permanent partnership and its advantages, they are able to give us priority in availability and the lowest possible pricing. These low prices often make their top-quality products less expensive than the cheapest alternatives.
Team Members
Solar Modules by Maxeon (SunPower)
The solar manufacturing member of the GIRS team is Maxeon. It manufacturers SunPower solar modules worldwide. Since 1985, SunPower modules have been the world’s premier solar panels, ranked #1 in commercial solar since 2017. Maxeon’s annual sales are $2B.
Because Maxeon is a member of the GIRS team, we receive their special design and engineering services, plus preferential production and pricing. Please see the presentations for our partnership with Maxeon for further details.
Maxeon manufactures the world’s highest efficiency, most reliable, and longest-lasting solar panels, featuring SunPower® Maxeon® cell technology. It has received more than 1,000 patents for solar innovation. It is the industry leader in solar sustainability and social responsibility. It offers the only risk-free, comprehensive warranty on solar modules.
As the oldest solar company in the world, with solid financial backing from French oil giant, Total Energies, they will be here for decades to come to honor warranties. maxeon.com
Solar Inverters by SMA
Our solar inverter manufacturing team member is SMA, headquartered in Germany, with a major American subsidiary called SMA-America. Since 1981, SMA has been the acclaimed world leader in inverter technology, with $1.9B in annual sales.
As a full member of the GIRS team, SMA provides GIRS with its special design and engineering services, as well as preferential production and pricing. Please see our SMA partnership presentation for details.
SMA has more than 3,000 employees in 18 countries. SMA Middle East has had offices in Abu Dhabi and Dubai for 12 years. It services 22 countries and with installations of over 2GW.
SMA has over 10 years of operational history under desert conditions, with facilities in Kuwait, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, and Egypt. Its technicians speak Arabic and have years of experience doing projects in Kuwait, where they have installed over 21MW of inverters that have operated without problem for over five years.
Their innovative solutions for all photovoltaic applications and our unsurpassed service offer customers worldwide greater independence in meeting their energy needs.
GIRS frequently uses string inverters instead of central inverters, for quicker and easier service and replacement, giving our facility even more reliability. However, we locate those string inverters centrally for even more efficiency, protection, and ease of service. sma-america.com
Battery cells and Modules by Kore Power
The GIRS team member for battery-energy-storage systems (BESS) is KORE Power, Inc. (“KORE”), headquartered in Coeur D’Alene Idaho, U.S.A. KORE provides the team with their special design and engineering services relating to lithium-ion battery and module-cell production, as well as offering us a strategic-customer status ensuring that GIRS projects are prioritized in KORE’s allocation of modules worldwide.
KORE is America’s only fully integrated Energy-Storage provider manufacturing battery cells, module packs, racking, and complete ESS systems, overseen by their KORE Solutions division.
KORE is presently completing one of the largest American-owned battery manufacturing facilities, in Buckeye, Arizona, U.S.A. This new two-million square foot facility will have a capacity of 12 GWh per year and will be one of the few installations producing both lithium LFP and NMC battery variants. The facility is striving to operate with a portfolio of clean-energy technologies, including strategic partnerships with solar generators and on-site battery storage.
This partnership enables GIRS to source batteries, their replacements, and ongoing service from a U. S. manufacturer, rather than the long delays and lack of support typically experienced when BESS equipment is supplied from Asia. korepower.com
Storage, wind, and microgrid Engineering by Kore Solutions
Kore Solutions, Inc. (“KSI”) of Vermont, U. S. A. (formerly Northern Reliability, Inc.) is the GIRS team member that provides custom design and engineering services for battery-energy-storage systems, wind generation, and microgrids, along with installation supervision, and full field-service support services worldwide.
KSI is the oldest engineering & EPC team in the microgrid and energy-storage industry, with over 50 years of continuous experience in this field to each solution they develop. Their engineering team has designed and deployed over 1100 energy storage systems on all seven continents. Their clients have included the U. S. government, the scientific community, the utility sector, and private institutions.
Because of their experience with remote, extreme locations, KSI systems required an extreme degree of reliability and autonomy. Deployments in the Arctic and Antarctic and in high desert climates presented numerous design challenges. Through a focus on system supervisory controllers and enclosure technology, this engineering team overcame a wide range of factors in order to ensure system operation of energy storage assets for long periods of time without human intervention.
KSI’s unique enclosure and controller design affordably protects the batteries and maintains a healthy operating environment to maximize system lifetime. Their team has five decades of in-the-field experience knowing what will, and more importantly will not, work for clients.
While KSI is a division of KORE Power, KSI is a technology and component-neutral integrator, because not all client situations require the use of KORE’s own batteries. With this in mind, KSI maintains ongoing relationships with a wide range of other providers in the market. They stay at the leading edge of the field by constantly investigating evolving storage technologies.
KSI has earned a reputation for providing high-quality solutions which save clients time and money over the lifetime of their energy storage assets. They stand by the units they deploy throughout their lifecycle and through the system’s replacement at end of life. korepower.com/solutions
Solar Design by Current Design Group
Our solar designers, engineers, and project managers are Current Design Group. They are a leader in the solar industry with over 60 years of collective experience in design, architecture, engineering, project feasibility cost analysis, project planning, and installation-management services.
Their team includes award-winning architectural design professionals and project management experts that ensure optimal project outcomes. Having worked with many solar clients, CDG has extensive experience as well as a proven project-management system in place. They have an excellent track record of meeting contract schedules and finishing within cost parameters. currentdesigngroup.com
Electrical Engineering by Enerlytic Engineering
Our electrical engineering for solar is provided by Enerlytic Engineering. They have over 20 years of electrical engineering experience in the power industry, focusing on system design, equipment design, transmission and interconnection planning, and power-system studies. Prior to forming the company, Priyantha Sirisooriya was SunPower’s Director of Engineering for EPC services for power plants, and his employees also worked for SunPower. So his company is uniquely experienced to engineer our SunPower projects.
They have decades of experience in utility-scale windfarm and solar facility engineering, having worked on the design and construction of several hundred utility and commercial-scale solar, wind, and storage projects. enerlytic.com
Structural Engineering by KPFF Consulting Engineers
Founded in 1960, KPFF Consulting Engineers is one of the largest civil and structural engineering firms in the U. S. They have offices all over the U. S. and are headquartered in Seattle, Washington. Their engineers work directly and independently with clients and partners, like IRS, while still able to draw upon the vast experience and resources of other professionals in the firm. kpff.com
Automatic Soil Prevention by Ruth Agriculture
Ruth Agriculture Systems & Chemicals is the GIRS team member that manufactures TAL – the world’s only truly effective solar-panel, soil prevention system.
TAL is a fully automated, remote-controlled system that keeps solar panels from accumulating soil. It uses a tiny amount of purified, softened water without any chemicals. It is touchless, so there is no abrasion of the glass, unlike waterless robotic systems that grind the sand into the glass like sandpaper.
Since it has no moving parts and uses no machinery or electrical power, it is maintenance free, unlike robots that break down frequently in harsh desert conditions. Since it does not require putting any holes or screws in solar panels, it does not void manufacturers’ warranties.
Once significant soil builds up on solar panels, it is too late to clean them. The damage is already done, and cleaning will have to be harsh on the panels to remove the soil. Soiling will cause hot spots, the main cause of panel failure. Occasional cleaning will mean the panels are dirty most of the time, so production will drop severely.
The TAL system is by far the most effective and economical way to prevent solar-panel soiling. It prevents the most soil, avoids hot spots, and is safe for panels and the environment. It doesn’t break down, costs next to nothing to operate, and is ideal for severe, hot climates. ruth-agri.com
Installation by KSG Solar Services
KSG SOLAR SERVICES, INC. is our solar installation partner. KSG’s management team possesses combined experience of over 20 years of hands-on PV and battery storage installation and over 40 years of general construction experience in all venues, from residential support systems to custom homes, to utility-scale projects. KSG is known for its thoroughgoing attention to detail and impeccable installation work. KSG’s line technicians consist of Certified and Master Electricians as well as experienced installation personnel whose expertise is especially well utilized on the larger and utility-scale ground-mount projects. In solar installation, worker and site safety are of utmost importance. All KSG worksites are staffed with OSHA-trained safety personnel.
The Company also has extensive experience hiring and training local workers and bringing new career opportunities to inexperienced and remote labor pools in the arena of solar installation. The Company also has long experience working collaboratively with PV system stakeholders, including facility owners, managers, investors, utilities, local municipal building departments, and other governmental agencies and bodies. ksg-solar-services-inc.ueniweb.com
Structured project-Financing by JLS Capital Strategies
JLS Capital Strategies, headed by John Schuster, works with GIRS on structuring and financing all its projects. It has helped finance over $53B in more than 161 projects in 70 countries on 6 continents.
It specializes in complex transactions to meet the credit criteria of equity and debt providers and provides support throughout all the steps of the capital-origination process. It is one of the most highly regarded structured-project-finance firms in the U.S. jlscapitalstrategies.com
Needs Analyses, Feasibility studies, & finance by K&M Advisors
K&M is highly regarded in U. S. and international project-finance circles. It specializes in Needs Analyses, Feasibility Studies, Due Diligence, Project Development, and Structured-Project Finance.
K&M is owned by the Dorado Group, a privately-held company specializing in development, investment, and ownership of clean and reliable power generation projects. K&M’s projects for private investors and governments have been valued at over $50B. It works with GIRS on all its areas of specialization, greatly broadening GIRS’ range of financing options. km-advisorsllc.com
Tax incentives and Tax-Equity investments by Novogradac
Novogradac, with 25 offices throughout the U. S., is famous in financial circles as America’s foremost expert in tax-equity investment. It works closely with banks and investment groups throughout the U. S. to structure project financing that takes full advantage of all tax benefits.
Novogradac provides GIRS with expert financial and economic modeling for its renewable-energy projects. novoco.com
