GARYSBURG, NORTH CAROLINA
Meet: Reginald Parker
Reginald Parker is the CEO and founder of Optimal Technology Corporation, a hardware-as-a-service company that provides products and processes to reduce energy costs in commercial buildings. Optimal is an award-winning, venture-backed energy solutions provider lowering the energy bills of customers with proprietary hardware and software products. The team has developed over twenty-five commercial and utility scaled solar projects, installed over a thousand cell towers annually, and developed over thirty unique clean technologies.
Dr. Parker has more than twenty-five years of experience in technology design and management. He developed a nanobiocomposite which can be used as a semiconductor, solar material, conductive paste, and a structural enhancer. Moreover, as a former university professor at Morehouse, FAMU, FSU, and UND for eight years, Dr. Parker has distinguished himself as a thought leader in business, engineering, and commercialization.
Solution: High Efficiency Solar Farm Development ft. VIA™Solar Technology
Dr. Reginald Parker and his team at Optimal Technology developed the first African American utility scaled solar farm in the country. 510 REPP One, located in 510Nano Inc. in Garysburg, North Carolina., is a seven acre 1.4 megawatt facility generating, transmitting, and distributing renewable electric power.
Reginald seeks to expand the environmental and community benefits provided by the facility in order to accelerate the usage of more efficient energy sources. This year, Optimal Technology Corporation will build a five acre, three megawatts solar facility called 510 REPP Two, using its innovative solar technology, VIA™. VIA™ is a new type of solar module designed to yield unprecedented efficiency in solar energy production while delivering the lowest cost solar energy amongst existing modules.
For the first time in history, two neighboring African American utility scaled solar farms will demonstrate the most innovative and efficient solar module to date, providing clean renewable energy, and delivering electricity at five cents per kWh or less. Completion of the new facility is set to make record time, cutting construction time from two months to an astounding 3 eight hour days.
The generation of energy will be a part of a solar energy solutions plan for Enviva, a company that produces sustainable wood pellets manufactured from a mix of untreated raw wood, waste wood, and residuals.
