NEWS: ReNew Petra Awarded Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise Certification

February 14, 2019, Huntersville, N.C. – Today, ReNew Petra, a renewable energy investment and construction company based in Huntersville, North Carolina, proudly announced its new North Carolina Minority and Women-Owned Business Enterprise (MWBE) certification. This certification was awarded by the North Carolina Department of Administration Office for Historically Underutilized Businesses.

“Our team is comprised of talented individuals of all backgrounds and skill sets. This diversity is what makes us so good at what we do,” said Richard Payne, managing director of ReNew Petra. “With this new certification, we hope to widen our customer base, increasing our number of renewable projects for North Carolina and the region, and providing more clean energy for local communities.”

The Office for Historically Underutilized Businesses facilitates business growth and provides new opportunities for historically underutilized businesses. As a result of the new certification, ReNew Petra is now listed in the Statewide Uniform Certification (SWUC) Program database. The MWBE certification will help ReNew Petra increase access to contract bids for government projects at both the state and local level. This current MWBE certification will be in effect for the next four years.

ReNew Petra began with two projects in 2016 and now manages a total of 16 projects across four states consisting of solar, landfill-gas-to-energy, and bioenergy. As a licensed general contracting company with more than 100 years of combined industry experience among the leadership team, ReNew Petra provides engineering, procurement, and construction services. ReNew Petra also provides operations and maintenance services for all their own projects and for third parties.

For more information about ReNew Petra, please visit thinkrenew.com.

About ReNew Petra

ReNew Petra is a vertically-integrated, renewable energy investment and licensed general contracting construction company involved in the engineering and construction of solar, landfill gas, and biomass facilities across the country. ReNew Petra also has the technical expertise to provide their own internal operations, maintenance, and asset management, as well as provide these services to institutional capital partners. For additional information, please visit thinkrenew.com. To stay updated, please follow us on Twitter and LinkedIn.

MEDIA CONTACT: Samantha Gilman, 707-486-5344, sgilman@renewpetra.com