Implemented project
Southern Current and Coastal Carolina Flea Market
The Coastal Carolina Flea Market installation brings Andrew’s commercial solar experience into focus: site work, early engineering, customer economics and coordination with the teams responsible for delivery.
Project Workflow
- Customer requirements
- Site & project economics
- Design coordination
- Licensed installation
The work in detail.
Southern Current and Coastal Carolina Flea Market
A completed commercial installation
Completed in Ladson in 2016, the rooftop system comprised 737 panels and 18 inverters. The project took approximately six months from inception to completion. Contemporary Live 5 News coverage documents the installation and ownership approach. The reported generation was equivalent to the needs of roughly 45 homes. At the time, SCE&G identified it as the largest privately owned, self-financed solar installation on its grid using the bill-credit incentive.
Projected energy savings
At completion, the project was projected to offset approximately 82% of the property’s electricity costs and provide approximately $45,000 in annual value. These were projections reported at the time, not independently verified long-term savings.
The broader delivery experience
Andrew joined Sustainable Energy Solutions in Charleston in 2013 as its third employee, bringing prior California solar experience. He helped build and lead residential, commercial and industrial sales teams, including the team responsible for larger behind-the-meter distributed-generation projects. The broader platform developed systems ranging from approximately 5 kW to 5 MW, and his teams worked on multiple commercial and industrial projects in the 1–2 MW range. During his experience with the business, the organization grew from three to more than 120 employees.
Leadership and customer delivery
Andrew’s work combined commercial leadership, site visits, customer requirements, project economics, pre-engineering, design coordination and delivery-team coordination. The company’s broader utility-scale portfolio and later acquisition provide organizational context; his contribution centered on building the behind-the-meter business and supporting customer projects.