SOLV Energy is a utility-scale solar and power-infrastructure contractor headquartered in San Diego, built out of Swinerton’s renewables arm and trading on Nasdaq as MWH. Since 2008 it has built more than 500 power plants totaling roughly 22 gigawatts and now services 152 plants and more than 23 gigawatts under operations and maintenance contracts, with about 2,600 employees. Work covers engineering, procurement and construction for utility-scale solar, battery energy storage, and high-voltage substations, alongside repowering, commissioning, and SCADA and operational technology services. The company reported second-quarter 2026 revenue of $951 million, up 77% year over year, with backlog of roughly $8.9 billion — about $2.5 billion of it attached to projects carrying a battery storage component. It closed its acquisition of Roberson Waite Electric on July 1, 2026. George Hershman is chief executive.
Scale is the filter SOLV Energy applies to EPC work. It targets utility-scale solar projects of 200 MWdc and above and reports more than 22 GW built across every major U.S. ISO. Within that threshold the scope is deliberately end to end: custom site layouts, energy modeling, value engineering and environmental compliance on the engineering side; sourcing critical equipment, negotiating with multiple suppliers and managing logistics on procurement; then self-performed groundwork, foundations, posts and racking, tracking, skids and inverters, EBOS, batteries and transmission and distribution.
That self-perform posture explains the headcount mix. Of roughly 2,600 employees, close to 1,950 are skilled craftworkers, spanning civil, structural, electrical and high-voltage crews, commissioning specialists for solar, storage and substations, SCADA and network engineers, and field O&M technicians.
Testing and commissioning is handled as its own discipline, covering equipment and utility testing, NETA acceptance testing, system integration and SCADA setup, and NERC/CIP certification support. The handoff from construction into operations is the stated differentiator: the company positions itself as one of the few top-five EPCs also running O&M at scale, and lists itself as the number two U.S. O&M provider.
The operations business covers more than 23 GW across a portfolio of over 200 renewable energy facilities, built on more than ten years in the field. Day to day that means 24/7 remote monitoring, diagnostics and dispatch, routine inspections, vegetation management and module cleaning, plus warranty preservation and compliance monitoring. Corrective work runs from rapid-response teams for equipment repair and weather damage through major inverter and transformer replacement, battery storage augmentation, site expansions and technology upgrades. Reporting goes through a proprietary analytics platform called Vitals, alongside aerial thermography and integration with customer SCADA systems. The Operations and Control Center in San Diego is NERC-registered at medium impact and ingests roughly two million data points per second.
Performance engineering sits next to the field work, covering data analytics and degradation studies as well as design support, energy modeling, commissioning and testing, all with an in-house team rather than outside consultants.
The company traces its start to 2008 and some of the earliest large-scale solar plants built in the United States. Headquarters is at 16680 West Bernardo Drive, San Diego, California 92127, and it carries California contractor license number 1083907. Beyond chief executive George Hershman, the leadership bench includes Kevin Deters as chief operating officer, Chad Plotkin as chief financial officer, Eric Valleton as chief technology officer, Helena Kimball as chief revenue officer, Dave Grubb Jr. as chief commercial officer, Brandi Pearson as chief people officer and Adam Forman as chief legal officer and secretary.
