Renewable Power Perspectives Q&A with Katie Garza, Co-Founder and COO, Lyssy Energy

By Constance ThompsonOctober 7, 2021

In 2021, we have reintroduced ourselves to the world– no longer as an energy service business, but as eco-friendly energy designers with the hope of owning and operating utility-scale renewable energy projects.
Lyssy Energy Enterprises is an innovative, independently held, utility-scale designer of solar, wind and battery energy options. Lyssy Energy believes that by releasing wind, solar and battery storage, we can optimize our efforts and offer all kinds of sustainable energy services. Lyssy Energy is working with poor neighborhoods in rural locations, and we hope to make a distinction by bringing eco-friendly energy projects to areas with high rates of hardship and other vulnerable neighborhoods. It is crucial for the energy shift to not only change how we produce energy, but to bring the disenfranchised to the center of this technological evolution so everybody shares the advantages.

The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) is happy to share the next installation in our “Accelerating Renewables” blog site series.
Each installation features market leaders and subjects associated with speeding up a fair and just shift to a renewable resource economy. In acknowledgment of National Hispanic Heritage Month, ACORE is highlighting 3 Hispanic-owned member business that are growing in the renewable resource sector.
Today, we are including Lyssy Energy Enterprises, a utility-scale sustainable energy designer in Texas. The following is a Q&A with Lyssy Energy Co-Founder and COO Katie Garza and Constance Thompson, ACOREs Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Programs.
What inspired you to start Lyssy Energy?
Lyssy Energy Enterprises all started with a favor to my daddy. He asked me to assemble an energy lease that would protect his land for ranching and farming while supplying an additional source of earnings. Before we understood it, my partner and I were helping others in the exact same situation. We made it main, got and began a business to work.
A couple years later on, we began partnering with renewable energy developers. We used 2020 to rebrand Lyssy Energy into the company we had always dreamed about. In 2021, we have reestablished ourselves to the world– no longer as an energy service business, however as renewable energy developers with the hope of owning and operating utility-scale eco-friendly energy tasks.
Inform us about Lyssy Energy.
Lyssy Energy Enterprises is an ingenious, privately held, utility-scale developer of solar, wind and battery energy options. Our prime regulation is to contribute to the velocity of the energy industrys shift to sustainable energy. We concentrate our operations in Texas, where booming population and organization growth mean a rapidly growing demand for energy. Lyssy Energy believes that by deploying wind, solar and battery storage, we can maximize our efforts and supply all type of renewable resource solutions. This state is our house, and the energy crisis unfolding in our yard is individual. We want to be a part of the solution and help our next-door neighbors throughout the state establish much-needed sources of tidy power. We are well on our method, with 1.5 gigawatts (GW) of clean, reputable energy consisting of one wind and three solar tasks currently in development and a prospective portfolio of 15 GW.
What challenges do you deal with? Why?
Capital is one of the greatest challenges we deal with at the moment. The sun and the wind provide electrical power, however capital is what moves whatever and everybody else. We require capital for everyday operations, and to establish, construct and run our jobs.
Protecting development capital early is necessary in supplying land control and interconnection studies to get jobs off the ground. We are striving to establish relationships with large financial investment firms that have a strong interest in renewables and can provide the capital essential to produce a successful renewable resource project.
How can prospective partners do organization with you?
Lyssy Energy Enterprises is open to partnerships or joint endeavors. We are offered to discuss the need for all types of capital stack with different equity, tax and financial obligation companies that run in this market and those interested in investing in eco-friendly energy tasks and companies.
How are you making an effect through Lyssy Energy?
Lyssy Energy Enterprises strives to continue constructing a diverse business. We intend to help stabilize the inequalities in our society by connecting to individuals that are traditionally neglected and passed over. Ladies and people of color are crucial to our success, and it is essential to promote their development to positions of management and management.
Lyssy Energy is working with poor neighborhoods in rural areas, and we hope to make a distinction by bringing eco-friendly energy jobs to locations with high rates of hardship and other vulnerable neighborhoods. It is essential for the energy shift to not only change how we produce energy, however to bring the disenfranchised to the center of this technological advancement so everybody shares the advantages.
How has your Accelerate membership helped your company?
Having the ability to take part in ACOREs Accelerate subscription program is a delight and a benefit. This program has actually supported our efforts to be a part of the option during this unpredictable time in our lives. The Accelerate Program has connected us to some of the most significant and most influential business on the planet, and these connections assist offer us the power to make a distinction. Someday, we intend to return the favor.
To find out more about or contact Lyssy Energy Enterprises, check out https://www.lyssyenergy.com/.
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