Solar Works and SolarWrights acquired and merged by Riverside Partners

Solar Works, Inc., a SunPower Premier Dealer, and SolarWrights, Inc. have been acquired and merged by Riverside Partners, a Boston-based private equity firm. The new company brings together the region's leading designer and installer of commercial solar systems with the region's largest residential solar energy provider. In addition to solar PV expertise, the company will provide its customers with wind energy and solar thermal solutions through the integration of WindWrights, the wind division of SolarWrights. Combined, Solar Works and Solar Wrights will leverage more than 30 years of renewable energy expertise with a staff of 110 employees to provide sales, service and support to residential and commercial customers in the northeast. Founded in 1980, Solar Works is a full service renewable energy systems integrator and project developer providing solar electric (photovoltaic) and solar thermal solutions for commercial, education and institutional clients. SolarWrights is a residential solar energy company in the Northeast with over 85 employees and over one thousand solar installations. In 2008, the company acquired Kosmo Solar and SunchSearch.