About Us
Our Mission
Our mission is to transform our energy future by creating freedom to choose a smarter, cleaner, more flexible way forward. We do this by investing in our clients, our landowners, and our partners who create energy projects, technologies and companies that better the human condition, as well as the communities where our projects are located.
Our Values
Integrity:
We do business the right way, every time. Our personal integrity, our mission and our impact is more important than any monetary gain.
People:
Our business is a collection of people that can do more together than any of us can do alone. We challenge and help improve each other. We search out clients who share our values and that we can genuinely and positively impact.
Passion:
We are passionate about giving our customers the freedom to choose, solving each client’s challenges, the environment and getting the future of our energy economy actualized in a smart and clean way.
Focus:
Our team demands a privilege of focus, only taking on projects and opportunities that we can execute at the highest level and with the greatest success. We turn down projects and opportunities that stretch our bandwidth or distract from our focus.
Fun:
We enjoy the work we do, we enjoy our clients and we make sure to have fun along the way. Our mission is as much about creating happiness for us all as it is about transforming the energy industry.
Balance:
Our team is a group of recovering workaholics who understand the importance of balancing work and life in a meaningful way. Balance allows us to be present with our clients and also allows us to want to stay engaged with each other and our mission for the long term.
Our History
Formed in 2014, TurningPoint Energy is a privately held company with some of the lowest overhead and profit requirements in the energy industry. This lean approach gives TurningPoint Energy the ability to make decisions quickly, and to customize projects to the unique needs of each client. Our team of seasoned energy industry professionals have collectively originated, developed, financed and/or built over 2 Gigawatts (GW) of the solar projects operating in the U.S. today.
Independent and Self-Funded
TurningPoint Energy has been completely independent and self-funded since day one. It has no equity investors and no requirements to use others’ products or services. It is structured as a greenfield development company that brings in investors to purchase and take it out of projects once portfolios of projects are ready for construction.
Adaptable Approach
Our team understands that solar development requires more than a cookie-cutter approach. TurningPoint Energy adapts its approach to the custom needs of each project. Part of its flexibility is its independence: TPE is not bound to a particular technology or financing structure. Instead, TPE sources the right technology and financing for each project. Utilities tell TPE that no other company is more reasonable with which to negotiate or build projects than TurningPoint Energy.
As executive vice president of development, Adam Beal oversees all real estate, land development and permitting activities for the company. Prior to joining TurningPoint Energy, Mr. Beal founded Lighthouse Advisers, a Colorado-based real estate development consultancy specializing in the renewable energy industry. In addition to its consultancy work, Lighthouse Advisers co-developed and maintained an equity stake in 19 operational solar facilities in the Northeast U.S. Before forming Lighthouse Advisers, Mr. Beal was employed by SunEdison, overseeing land development and site acquisition processes for 80+ distributed generation solar project sites throughout the U.S. and its island territories, and handling land acquisition functions for dozens of utility-scale solar projects in the desert Southwest. He has lent his expertise to over 1,500 MW of now-operational or under-development photovoltaic solar projects. Mr. Beal has also worked as a commercial real estate broker – licensed by the Colorado Real Estate Commission for over a decade – and has additional experience in retail and mixed-use development. He is an active real estate investor, and holds a Bachelor of Science from Western Michigan University. 
As executive vice president of project operations, James Marshall is responsible for the full development, engineering, procurement and construction aspects of solar and related clean tech generation projects.
Michelle Carpenter has more than 12 years of project development, financing and technical expertise within the renewable energy industry in the Northeast. She has been involved in the origination, development and due diligence on more than 150MW of solar projects. Before joining TurningPoint Energy, Mrs. Carpenter was C.O.O. at a Rhode Island renewable energy company where she helped grow the business from a single operational project to one of the largest developers in the state. She also ran the Northeast distributed generation division for NextEra Energy Resources, helping to spearhead the company’s entrance into the DG space. Her expertise ranges from site identification, qualification and permitting to contract negotiation and regulatory analysis. Prior to her experience in the renewable energy industry, Mrs. Carpenter spent five years in the estimating department of a multimillion-dollar electrical contracting firm. She has a B.S. in Environmental & Natural Resource Economics with a minor in Environmental Science from the University of Rhode Island. 
As managing director of development for TurningPoint Energy, Franny Yuhas performs all aspects of solar project origination including site identification, energy off-take agreement negotiation and other due diligence activities to ensure project implementation success. She works closely with engineering, project finance, real estate for land acquisition, operations and the legal team to ensure project feasibility and that project economics align. 
As Managing Director of Development, Jordan Belknap leads project management and permitting of TPE’s community solar projects. Prior to joining TurningPoint Energy, Mr. Belknap founded HelioAmp Energy LLC, which specialized in solar energy project development, permitting, and construction management. 
John Kintz serves as Managing Director of Finance for TurningPoint Energy. Mr. Kintz has over 30 years of project finance, capital markets and development experience and has led, negotiated, and closed over 1GW of transactions in the C&I, utility, and community solar segments of the market. 
Nick Theisen drives origination and development of solar and energy storage opportunities at TurningPoint Energy, from policy implementation to project development and take-out financing. Over the course of his 11-year solar industry career, Mr. Theisen has held various roles in business development and project finance, supporting the successful development, implementation, and financing of more than 100MW and 25 MWh of battery energy storage systems across more than 100 projects spanning 13 states.
Caroline Belmont drives origination and development of solar and energy storage opportunities at TurningPoint Energy, from policy implementation to project development. She brings a wealth of experience in utility-scale solar development, energy market analysis, valuation and financing of a variety of power generation technologies across North America.
Scott Osborn brings over 24 years of experience in renewable energy development, including site selection, landowner identification, site acquisition, resource qualification/quantification, economic assessment and modeling, use permitting, and environmental study management. Prior to joining TurningPoint Energy, Mr. Osborn was Vice President of Disgen Development Services, where he managed development of portfolios of wind and solar projects and a team of eight developers and support staff.
As Senior Development Manager, Alex Mendelson is responsible for project management and the successful permitting and site feasibility of projects. 
In her role as Development Manager, Gloria Foxman manages project development including site feasibility and permitting.
As Director of GIS, Keith Jackson directs all geospatial (GIS) suitability analyses for the company, working closely with the company’s real estate and site acquisitions teams. Prior to joining TurningPoint Energy, Mr. Jackson has been employing GIS in multiple fields for 15 years. His career began at Microsoft, providing GIS analyses for their Virtual Earth (now Bing Maps) software. Mr. Jackson then worked in environmental consulting with Ocean Imaging, Inc. where he worked with multispectral imagery to map coastlines and kelp distributions over time as well as establish new methodologies to aid in oil spill response efforts. Following Ocean Imaging, he spent several years in the oil and gas industry providing GIS automation and web application development, primarily focusing on Regulatory and Land department needs. 
As Director of Development Engineering, Mr. Sanchez is responsible for managing development engineering in various markets across the nation. Luis comes with vast experience in both the utility and DG markets, with knowledge of the entire process of a project from land selection and interconnection permitting and execution. Prior to joining TurningPoint Energy, Sanchez spent nearly four years as an Engineering Manager at EnterSolar, a corporate solar developer. He managed the engineering and execution of large ground-mount projects for corporate customers, as well as helped create the Engineering, Procurement, and Construction (EPC) arm of the company focusing on the execution of projects for community solar developers. Prior to EnterSolar, Sanchez was an Engineering Manager at SunEdison’s Utility-Scale Division for nearly nine years, focusing on the development and execution of large-scale projects across the country; and an Operations Manager at GameChange Solar, an NYC-based racking company, managing the construction services. 
As Director of Development Engineering, Joe Philip is responsible for managing development engineering in various markets across the nation. He is a solar industry veteran with over 20 years of experience in the solar energy industry having worked in every aspect of the field from module manufacturing to design, installation, development, and maintenance of PV systems.
Peggy Paas oversees TurningPoint Energy’s pipeline of real estate acquisitions and is responsible for negotiating a range of deal structures nationwide. She identifies, proposes and implements creative or alternative new market site selection approaches that reduce exposure to permitting and development risks. She develops and manages relationships with internal and external key stakeholders to influence and collaborate on ongoing transactions and project development. She also manages all legal entity portfolios to successfully identify, execute, and monitor necessary governance and compliance activities. 
As Senior Manager of Real Estate, Steven Kratz supports the development and growth of the TurningPoint Energy real estate portfolio. He works to identify viable site locations, while cultivating positive relationships with landowners, and negotiating a variety of real estate contracts.
As Senior Manager of Real Estate – Title for TurningPoint Energy, Logan Sigmon manages title insurance services across the company’s multi-state portfolio, maintaining relationships with title insurers, agents and underwriters. She provides thorough risk analysis for real estate title, identifying problematic encumbrances, including surface and mineral rights. She then works to structure and negotiate title curative documents, removing title risks in preparation for start of construction and project financing. She collaborates with the site acquisition team, project developers, engineers, surveyors, and project finance to ensure that TurningPoint Energy’s projects meet all investor expectations.