Enabling commercial industrial clean energy: An interview with Drew Torbin of Black Bear Energy

This interview focuses on strategies to promote clean energy adoption in commercial and industrial sectors, highlighting the roles of innovative financing, technology integration, and supportive regulations.

Black Bear Energy (BBE) is a firm led by two former Wal-Mart and Prologis executives who built and scaled the two largest onsite corporate solar programs in the US. It has a client base of 30 institutional property owners, all of whom have made their way to Black Bear by word of mouth, and over 3 billion square feet of real estate assets under management. The company recently announced three new solar, storage, and LED retrofit projects – commercial solar systems in Somerville and Cambridge, Massachusetts; a 2.4 MW solar rooftop array in Cranbury, New Jersey; and storage projects in California, Arizona, Colorado and Nevada.

REM talked to Black Bear Energy CEO Drew Torbin to find out more about the company, the projects it is currently involved in and where it hopes to go from here.

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