Our client is a multinational leader in bakery products, known for its commitment to quality, operational excellence, and sustainability. With a strong internal sustainability team and a history of clean energy initiatives, our client is working to meet ambitious climate goals while continuing to serve communities across the country with trusted brands and baked goods.
As corporate sustainability becomes increasingly prioritized by leadership, investors, and consumers alike, our client is actively pursuing its decarbonization targets. The organization already has a solid foundation in place—an experienced internal team, strong partnerships, and existing solar installations.
However, they began to encounter a recurring obstacle: several of its solar partners were limited in where they could operate, often avoiding specific markets due to profit margins or permitting complexity. This left key sites across our client’s portfolio without viable clean energy pathways, making it difficult to maintain consistent progress toward emissions reduction goals across all locations.
This challenge underscores a common theme among large enterprises: even well-resourced organizations benefit from collaborating with adaptable partners who can fill strategic gaps and operate where others won’t. To overcome market and geographic limitations, our client partnered with ESA—an experienced and flexible clean energy provider with the ability to operate in regions where other solar partners had declined to engage. ESA stepped in to bridge the gap, bringing years of expertise across all segments of solar and a deep understanding of diverse, often complex markets.
Together with our client’s internal sustainability team, ESA is conducting a comprehensive evaluation of the company’s entire U.S. portfolio, including sites previously considered too challenging or unprofitable by past partners. This includes introducing creative financial structures, such as customized ownership and third-party models, as well as site-specific design adaptations that account for operational, regulatory, and utility-specific variables.
What sets this collaboration apart is the tailored approach ESA brings to each location—ensuring that every facility, regardless of market complexity, can contribute meaningfully to our client’s decarbonization goals. The partnership remains active, with both teams aligned in their pursuit of practical, scalable clean energy solutions that advance their broader emissions reduction and utility cost-saving targets.
Through this ongoing collaboration, ESA is empowering this manufacturer to close strategic gaps in its portfolio and accelerate progress across all sites—demonstrating that even the most well-established organizations benefit from adaptable, market-savvy partners to fully realize their sustainability vision.
While the partnership is ongoing, ESA has already helped this client unlock new opportunities across previously untapped locations—bringing the company closer to a cohesive, portfolio-wide sustainability strategy. This collaboration is strengthening our client’s ability to pursue consistent emissions reductions and utility cost savings across all markets, not just the easy ones.
Together, ESA and this client are actively building a clean energy strategy that is scalable, resilient, and responsive to the real-world challenges of national operations. As the work continues, both teams remain aligned in their shared commitment to climate action and operational excellence.
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