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 the development of solar projects since 2014. She works directly with landowners, engineers, government agencies, utility staff, and pre-construction teams, taking projects from site visits through interconnection and regulatory approvals.
Her prior experience includes business development for FLS Energy, personnel management, client relationship management, project management, editing, and communications. Veronika grew up in East Tennessee. She graduated from UNC-Asheville. Veronika is a lifelong volunteer, including serving as a Big Sister, on nonprofit boards, and for 10+ years with the National Ski Patrol Southern Division. |