About us
Bithenergy AI develops, finances and builds clean energy for the people and places the grid keeps waiting. More than 500 megawatts of experience, from military bases and city campuses to island microgrids, now paired with AI that matches generation to real demand.
We started in Baltimore in 2009 with five solar panels and a conviction that clean energy should be built with communities, not just near them. Since then the team has developed, financed and delivered more than 500 MW of renewable generation and storage across the U.S., the Caribbean and Africa, structured the PPAs and debt behind it, and trained hundreds of people to build and run it.
Today the hardest problem in energy isn't generating clean power. It's getting it to the load. Interconnection queues stretch for years, AI and electrification are adding demand faster than transmission can follow, and the people who most need lower bills are usually last in line. Bithenergy AI exists to close that gap.
The moment we're building for
Demand
Data centers and electrification are adding gigawatts of new demand faster than transmission can be built. In Texas alone, nearly 200 GW of large-load requests landed in a single quarter of 2026, and PJM is projecting a capacity shortfall by 2030. Waiting on the grid is no longer a plan.
Storage
The U.S. installed a record 20 GWh of storage in one quarter this year and crossed 50 GW of battery capacity. Solar plus storage can now serve a facility, a campus or an entire island around the clock, on-site, without a multi-year interconnection wait.
People
The solar industry is short more than 53,000 qualified workers this year. Every project we build carries a training pipeline with it, because the fastest way to add capacity is to add people who know how to build it.
What Bithenergy AI does
We take projects from a parcel of land or a utility bill all the way to a commissioned, monitored system: site selection, interconnection, PPA and debt structuring, engineering, construction and long-term operations. Then our AI layer does what the grid can't: it matches clean generation and storage to the real load profile of the off-taker, so the power you pay for is the power you use.
That same stack is how we approach the newest load on the grid. Clean data center campuses, sited and powered on dedicated renewables and storage, energized in months instead of years.
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Capabilities
Rooftop, canopy and ground-mount solar, wind and hybrid systems, from 10 kW community installs to multi-phase 10 MW plants.
Battery systems that firm solar, shave peaks and keep critical facilities and whole islands running through outages.
Siting, dedicated power and AI-enabled operations for compute campuses that can't wait on the queue.
Real-time platforms that track thousands of utility accounts, catch billing errors and turn usage data into decisions.
LED, HVAC, building automation and Level 2 / DC fast charging that cut consumption before we add generation.
Pre-apprenticeships, NABCEP and OSHA pathways, and boot camps that put local residents on our own job sites.
How we work
Technical excellence, cost control, regulatory compliance and community benefit, in that order at every step.
Site evaluation, load analysis and stakeholder alignment. We identify technical options, funding (grants, PPAs, debt) and the delivery model that fits.
In-house engineers model the system against site constraints, code, interconnection requirements and lifecycle cost, and produce every drawing and submittal for permitting.
Local, state and utility permitting, competitive bidding, local participation plans and vendor alignment with performance and warranty standards.
Experienced field supervisors, rigorous safety protocols, and careful sequencing of staging, utility shut-offs and subcontractors to minimize disruption.
Full testing and walk-through, operations manuals, training, warranties and completed interconnection.
Ongoing performance monitoring through our EIS platform, maintenance, annual reporting and tuning against savings targets.
What we believe
Solving the climate crisis takes more than technology. It takes intentional partnerships, community-centered design and economic pathways for the people historically left out of the energy economy. Our "whole community" approach means every project reflects the needs and strengths of the place it's built: local hiring, transparent construction updates, public input and real-time project portals.
We measure success in kilowatts installed and dollars saved, and also in lives improved, communities strengthened and futures transformed.
Meet our team
Chief Executive Officer
Engineer, entrepreneur, author and internationally known keynote speaker. Founder of Bithenergy, BITHGROUP Technologies and EntreTeach Learning Systems. MBA from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics from the University of Pennsylvania. Has chaired the State of Maryland Information Technology Board, the Governor's Advanced Technology Commission and the Minority Business Task Force, and served on the Greater Baltimore Committee, Kennedy Krieger Institute, Presidents Roundtable and the BRAC Commission.
President
B.A. in Mechanical Engineering and Public Policy from Dartmouth College. Over nine years in energy and infrastructure finance and project management at Bithenergy and Alvarez & Marsal, delivering structured financing for public-private partnerships, municipal infrastructure and renewable energy developments for clients including the U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, the State of Louisiana, Travis County and Howard University. Six years as an analytics lead at Meta and Capital One. Board member of Global Vessels and Chairman of the Board at The HiBU Foundation.
Chief Administrative Officer
Day-to-day responsibility for human resources, benefits, payroll, physical infrastructure, recruiting and staff augmentation. More than twenty-five years of experience across manufacturing, design engineering, R&D, human resources, high-performance team implementation, Total Quality and executive leadership. B.S. in Mechanical Engineering with a focus on Biomedical Engineering.
VP of Project Management
Energy analyst, quality specialist and data systems manager with more than fifteen years in systems and process management. Leads the Energy Information Systems (EIS) team. B.S. in Industrial Engineering and Master of Engineering in Engineering Management from Morgan State University, with a background in data analysis, process improvement, measurement and verification, and project management.
VP of Project Development
More than fifteen years of global experience as an electrical and energy engineer, project manager and business consultant across North America, Africa and the Caribbean. Has developed and built more than 200 MW of solar and wind projects and worked in the power market on frequency response, energy arbitrage and battery storage. Master's studies in Electrical Engineering at Johns Hopkins APL and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. SMA Solar Academy graduate, certified Wind System Design Specialist and certified EVSE installer.
