Helio Grid/Services

Six phases. One owner. From a section of desert to a 30-year asset.

Most clean energy developers hand the project off three or four times. From origination to permitting to EPC to operator. Each handoff loses information. We don't. The same team that wins the land owns the asset through year 30.

7-yr median dev time 100% in-house origination PLA across CA + NV
Project lifecycle

The six phases. Explained for the people who buy from us.

Phase 1 → Phase 6 · ~84 months
01

Origination

Months 0–12

Identify a section of land near existing transmission with the irradiance and slope to host a 100+ MW project. Sign exclusive option agreements with landowners, secure title work, run preliminary glare and biological studies.

Recorded option agreement
Title commitment + ALTA survey
Preliminary technical site report
02

Interconnection

Months 6–36

Submit the project into the cluster study at CAISO or the applicable WECC balancing authority. Run system impact study, facilities study, then sign the Large Generator Interconnection Agreement.

Cluster study application
System Impact Study (SIS)
Signed LGIA + network upgrades scope
03

Permitting & entitlement

Months 12–48

CEQA or NEPA review, depending on land ownership and incentive program. County conditional use permits, biological resource permits (USFWS, CDFW), tribal consultation under Section 106. Glint and glare analysis for nearby airports.

CEQA EIR or NEPA EA/EIS
County CUP + grading permit
Section 106 tribal concurrence
04

Offtake & financing

Months 30–60

Win a PPA through a utility RFO, bilateral negotiation, or as part of a CCA portfolio. Close project-level debt with a syndicate of infrastructure lenders. Secure tax equity through a partnership flip.

Signed PPA (15–25 year)
Construction debt facility
Tax equity commitment letter
05

Construction

Months 54–78

Notice to Proceed. Mass grading and civil works. Pile-driving and tracker installation. DC and AC electrical, MV collection system, BESS pad and integration. Substation buildout under tap agreement with the local utility. Mechanical completion → backfeed → commercial operation.

NTP + project labor agreement
Mechanical completion
Commercial Operation Date (COD)
06

O&M + asset management

Years 1–30+

Performance monitoring 24/7 from the Reno operations center. Quarterly preventive maintenance. Module washing on a 6–9 month cycle. Inverter and BESS warranty management. Annual P50/P90 performance reporting to lenders and the PPA counterparty. Repowering and decommissioning planning beginning year 25.

99.2% target availability
NERC + WECC compliance reporting
Decommissioning bond filed annually
PPA structures

Three ways to buy power from us.

Counterparties: IOUs, CCAs, munis, corporates
Most common

Fixed-price energy PPA

15–25 yr term

A flat price per MWh for all energy produced, with escalators tied to CPI. The utility or corporate offtaker takes the volume risk; we take the production risk.

  • Best fit: regulated IOUs filing IRPs, large corporates with sustainability targets
  • Settles at the project node or at a hub like SP15 / NP15
  • Includes RECs, capacity attributes by default
  • Standard CAISO IBR settlement
Highest revenue

Hybrid PPA + RA capacity

10–20 yr term

A bundled product. Flat energy price plus a separate resource adequacy capacity payment for the storage portion. Best for portfolios that need both energy and capacity to clear an IRP.

  • Splits energy and capacity revenue streams
  • RA contracts run shorter than energy. Common to roll annually
  • Storage dispatch rights split between offtaker and Helio Grid
  • Settles against CAISO RA framework
Newer · growing

Tolling agreement

10–15 yr term

The offtaker pays a fixed capacity charge and controls dispatch of the storage system. Helio Grid retains the asset and handles all O&M. Best for sophisticated buyers running their own merchant book.

  • Offtaker dispatches into CAISO DA + RT markets
  • Predictable cash flow for us, upside for them
  • Common with large corporate hyperscalers
  • Round-trip efficiency guaranteed at 85%
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Landowner program

Stable income. Decommissioning bonded. No upfront cost.

Active in CA · NV · AZ · NM

If you own a contiguous block of 200+ acres within a few miles of a transmission line, your land may be worth more as a solar host site than as an active range or row-crop operation.

Here's how the math typically works. A 500-acre lease in San Bernardino County paying $1,200/acre/year. Common for projects within ~5 miles of a 230 kV line. Generates $600,000 of annual income, escalated annually by 2%. Over a 30-year lease, that's roughly $25 million per landowner, with no capital outlay and no operational responsibility on your side.

We handle every interaction with the county, the ISO and the utility. You keep livestock grazing rights where they're compatible (we encourage agrivoltaics on our sites where soils permit). At end-of-lease, we restore the land to baseline conditions. Funded by a decommissioning bond filed and renewed every five years with the county.

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Typical terms · CA / NV

What a Helio Grid lease looks like.

These are starting points. Every deal is negotiated to the specifics of the parcel, transmission proximity, soil type and your operating needs.

Lease price $1,000–1,500 /ac / yr
Annual escalator 2.0–2.5%
Term 30 yr + extensions
Option period 3–5 yr · paid
Decom bond $25k /ac · refiled q5yr
Grazing rights Retained where compatible
Additional services

Built for sophisticated buyers and partners.

Available to PPA counterparties + JV partners
A / CO-DEV

Co-development

Bring your land position and queue rights; we bring permitting, financing and construction execution. Common with strategic JV partners and tribal nations.

B / EPC

Third-party EPC

Our construction team builds projects for other developers on a fixed-price, date-certain basis. 1.2 GW delivered for outside clients since 2021.

C / O&M

Outsourced O&M

Our Reno operations center monitors and dispatches 580 MW of third-party assets. Particularly attractive for tax-equity-owned portfolios.

Utilities + IPPs

Looking for shovel-ready capacity?

We have 1.6 GW with executed LGIAs available for offtake between 2026 and 2029. Get the current project list, refreshed monthly.

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Landowners

200+ acres near transmission?

A no-cost land assessment from our origination team will tell you in two weeks whether your parcel is a fit for our development pipeline.

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