Yellow Dwarf Energy | Community Solar and Battery Storage

Who we work with

What working with Yellow Dwarf involves.

Landowners

We lease roofs and buy or lease land, including small parcels and corners of industrial lots. You receive payments from the day you sign, and we pay for everything it takes to get the project approved and built.

Discuss an offer for your land →

Statement of qualifications available on request.

Municipalities

We buy or lease vacant municipal land for solar and battery storage. The municipality receives a purchase price or rent, and we meet with the fire department and residents before anything is built.

Have your vacant parcels screened at no cost →

Statement of qualifications available on request.

Developers

We bring developers sites and serve as a certified Equity Eligible Contractor on Illinois projects.

Discuss sites or EEC work →

Statement of qualifications available on request.

Community and workforce partners

We will post construction jobs on our projects through local workforce programs. Sidney Owens sits on the Chicago Cook Workforce Partnership's CEJA Employer Advisory Group.

Founder

Sidney Owens

Founder & Principal

Yellow Dwarf Energy is led by Sidney Owens, a licensed Illinois attorney with five years of experience in renewable energy transactions: the site control, real estate diligence, and project work that takes solar and wind projects from raw land to financing.

Illinois-licensed attorney; J.D., Northwestern Pritzker School of Law
Trained at Norton Rose Fulbright and Husch Blackwell on site control, title and financing for utility-scale wind and solar
Experience across solar, wind, and battery storage development
Site control and title curative for a 150 MW Texas solar project
Real estate diligence for the $415 million financing of a 200 MW Texas solar project
Wind energy leases for projects in ten states, including Illinois

What we do

Solar and battery storage

Community solar

Solar arrays on land and roofs. Nearby households sign up and receive a discount on their electric bills every month.

Battery storage

Battery systems on small parcels, some as small as a quarter acre.

We review your property at no cost.

We agree on a price or rent.

We get the approvals.

We build the project.

Get in touch

Speak with Sidney Owens directly.

We would like to hear from landowners, municipalities, developers and workforce partners interested in community solar or battery storage in Illinois.

(312) 339-2850
sidney.owens@yellowdwarfenergy.co
444 W Lake St, Suite 1700, Chicago, IL 60606

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