Dustin Markowski, CEO“Our goal is to give customers the most value while delivering the lowest total cost of ownership for the project,” says Dustin Markowski, CEO.
Underlying that approach is Power Solar’s focus on bringing energy generation closer to the facilities that consume it. For businesses facing limited grid capacity or rising energy-delivery costs, on-site generation can provide another way to address operating requirements.
Power Solar focuses on organizations where energy is a significant driver of business performance, including cold storage, data centers, commercial real estate, manufacturing and education facilities. It examines how energy costs influence profitability and asset value and whether available grid capacity can support future growth.
Finding the Cost behind the Meter
Before formulating a plan, Power Solar speaks with stakeholders across the customer’s departments, mapping the obstacles, opportunities and measures that matter to different parts of the organization. It examines load profiles, growth plans and current performance, then builds the energy strategy around those findings rather than a preferred technology.
Depending on the business, Power Solar connects energy costs to approximately 12 key measures across its customer base, including EBITDA and net operating income. In cold storage, for example, lower energy expenditure can improve NOI, which in turn can influence business valuation. A dashboard shows the impact against the metrics defined for each project.
Its 12-month energy-cost forecast starts with where the customer is today and where the business wants to go, then combines facility-specific information with lessons from similar organizations. The analysis compares the investment required with the cost of maintaining current arrangements, making the opportunity cost of waiting visible alongside projected savings.
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Our goal is to give customers the most value while delivering the lowest total cost of ownership for the project.
The company has deployed more than 300 megawatts of onsite capacity across over 200 facilities and 2,400 installed projects. It uses this accumulated experience to estimate the impact and evaluate systems for the lowest total cost of ownership. Power Solar offers a minimum 85 percent savings guarantee when comparing utility-sourced energy costs with the proposed solution where analysis supports that threshold.
In one case, a cold-storage and meat-processing facility had grown skeptical about further renewable investment. Its existing solar system saved about $12,000 annually against an electricity bill exceeding half a million dollars. Power Solar found that demand charges represented approximately 70 percent of spending, which the installed system did little to address.
It added storage and energy optimization measures, increasing the facility’s current annual savings run rate to over $220,000. The case showed how diagnosing what an existing system failed to address could create far greater value without replacing the original investment.
Generation at the Point of Use
A major source of energy costs form businesses today lies in transporting electricity from distant generation sites to the point of consumption. Power Solar prioritizes on-site generation closer to demand, reducing the distance between generation and use while limiting dependence on the pace of grid expansion.
Energy strategy also depends on site constraints. Data centers, for example, may lack the footprint to generate all the power they need. Power Solar evaluates technologies, including kinetic storage along with available sources to maximize useful power within those limits rather than relying on solar alone.
Markowski expects near-term efforts to prioritize renewable projects ahead of federal incentive changes. Longer-term growth in cold storage and data centers, along with returning U.S. manufacturing, increases the need for capacity.
Its next focus is helping more businesses generate power at the point of use, make energy spending predictable and bring capacity online without waiting for grid upgrades that can take many years. Power Solar’s recognition as the Top Enterprise Energy Solution 2026 reflects its ability to connect energy investments with measurable financial outcomes and business growth.
