Vision and Experience: the Headwaters Solar Team
Vision and Experience
Our mission at Headwaters Solar is to partner with businesses, organizations, landowners, and communities to plan and implement great solar projects. We work on projects ranging in size from the roof-tops of small businesses to utility-scale ground-mounted solar farms. Headwaters Solar handles everything necessary to make a solar project shovel-ready, from design, engineering, environmental due diligence, permitting, land use approvals, and interconnection approvals to Power Purchase Agreements with electric utilities.
Headwaters Solar was founded by Brownie Newman and Veronika Gunter in 2015.
Headwaters Solar was founded by Brownie Newman and Veronika Gunter in 2015.
Brownie Newman, Partner
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From 2007- 2015, Brownie served as a partner at FLS Energy. Brownie’s roles at FLS Energy included Project Finance Director, member of the board of directors, and VP of Business Development.
Brownie’s team developed more than 100 commercial and utility-scale solar projects totaling more than 300 MW which are all operational today. FLS Energy has been consistently ranked as one of the fastest growing solar energy companies in America. Brownie Newman is a native of Pickens, South Carolina, where he grew up on a working farm. Brownie is a graduate of Warren Wilson College. |
Photo credit: Kelly Giarrocco
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Veronika Gunter, Partner
Photo credit: Mike Belleme
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Veronika has initiated and managed solar project development since 2014. She works with landowners, engineers, government agencies, utility staff, and pre-construction teams to take projects from site visits through interconnection and regulatory approvals.
Her experience includes utility-scale solar business development for FLS Energy, client and relationship management, community organizing, and communications. Veronika is an East Tennessee native. She earned a bachelor's degree from UNC-Asheville and a master's degree from East Carolina University. |