Dillon Lewis

Dillon has successfully developed, underwritten, and structured various financial vehicles designed for the medium to large scale commercial solar PV markets. He also has created multiple special purpose entities for the origination of renewable energy assets by successfully getting site control, PPA offtakes, and approved utility Interconnection Agreements (ICA) with the largest project totaling 1GWdc.

Dillon has a considerable experience with diverse types of clients, including Tribal land, Tribal Utilities, for-profit, non-profit 501(c)3s, public sector; Municipality / Universities / Schools / Hospitals (MUSH Markets), brownfields, useable/unusable farmland, and fallowed farmland.

Dillon also has extensive experience with many different project types including standard C&I distributed generation, commercial roof leasing, portfolio electrification, utility scale solar land leasing, island and parallel micro-grids, utility Rapid Response Systems(RRS) with capacity payments, urban farming, MMJ cultivation, algae based agri-voltaics, green / blue hydrogen and NH3 creation. His projects have had various financing options, such as sourcing debt, tax liability, construction financing to structure PPAs, capital leases, operating leases, sales lease backs, partnership flips, REIT structured finance, and credit facility creation.

Dillon has won awards for federal funding opportunities for Tribal and non-profit projects leading to yield enhancing developments through cash injections with TRECs, SRECS, Federal Loan guarantees and grants such as; USDA, DOE, EDA, and Mother Earth Foundation funds. Dillon’s interfacing with tribal leadership, town, cities, engineers, manufacturers, GC’s, land owners, utilities and financial institutions allows for a blueprint for project development that walks partners through the MIPA, development / EPC contracts, and Authority Having Jurisdiction processes to have the project ready for sale prior pre or post NTP and through commissioning at COD.

He has a vast knowledge of the process and documentation to proceed with
various off takers including utility, corporate, and virtually net metered clients looking for pre-commissioned power.