Solar Land Partners Announces Team Expansion with Proven Professionals

Online, November 22, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Solar Land Partners (SLP), a leading solar project development services provider for solar enterprises, project developers and solar land owners in California and throughout the United States today announced the company is expanding its management team.

To address the rapidly expanding demands by utilities, institutions and municipalities for clean energy, Solar Land Partners welcomes experienced professionals VP of Finance & CFO John Vidal (MBA, MSEE, BSEE), VP, General Counsel & Secretary John Spilman (J.D.), VP of Business Development Sy Richardson, VP of Project Development & Land Services Philip Millenbah (M.A., AICP), and as VP of Project Development & EPC Services Stephen Smith.

Solar Land Partners specializes in creating shovel-ready solar land sites. By providing a one-stop-shop for pre-construction project development services, Solar Land Partners offers the solar industry a more predictable path to project bankability for projects from 3MW up to 50MW and even larger. Every facet of the ever more complex utility solar project development phase is directly managed by one of Solar Land Partners proven professionals.

"Our expanded management team enhances our in-house expertise and our ability to address the fast-growing market for shovel-ready solar land sites," said SLP's President and CEO, Dr. John Barnes. "With ever increasing hurdles created by the Project Viability Calculator, we will be able to even better address the developer's needs for effectively creating a bankable solar project," said SLP's Co-Founder and Director Alexander von Welczeck. "It's a race and our best-in-the-business team has the know-how to get projects across the finish line".

About Solar Land Partners
Solar Land Partners (SLP) is a professional services company made up of energy, utility, interconnection, real estate, permitting, solar, finance and legal professionals formed to get land sites "shovel ready" for solar EPC construction. We partner with solar enterprises, project developers and solar land owners to get their development projects faster and more reliably to bankability. For more information please see www.solarlandpartners.com