CBRE Solar will provide services to the company’s clients, initially in the United States and Canada, including solar energy solutions for clients, solar power purchase agreements, roof leases, advisory services, project development services, project management services and solar project investment opportunities.
“As the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm, we will play a leading role in the solar distributed generation market. CBRE Solar puts us in an ideal position to assist our corporate services and asset services clients in understanding and navigating the complexities of the solar market to efficiently maximize their real estate and achieve their sustainability and energy-cost reduction goals,” CBRE president of the Americas Mike Lafitte said.
CBRE Solar will work with Smart Energy Capital, a solar finance, development and advisory firm. The principals of SEC have a deep background and successful track record in structuring and arranging innovative financing solutions for solar related projects and developing renewable energy projects.
They have managed a portfolio of over 300 megawatts of solar projects and raised in excess of $200 billion of innovative financings.
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