There Is No North American Solar Manufacturer at This Scale. Until Now.
Canadian Energies is building the platform North America needs: 10 GW of domestic solar manufacturing, vertically integrated with EPC and storage, headquartered in Toronto and built for the continent.
TORONTO, ON, May 1, 2026
North America has spent years talking about the energy transition. Canadian Energies is building it.
Headquartered in Toronto, Canadian Energies is a vertically integrated cleantech platform combining solar module manufacturing, EPC delivery, and battery energy storage under one roof. The company’s flagship initiative a 10 GW solar module manufacturing facility in Canada has already secured purchase orders from buyers in the United States and Mexico, and the platform is now in active conversations with utilities, developers, and institutional investors across the continent.
The bigger story, however, is not a single factory. It is the strategic question Canadian Energies has been built to answer: as North America moves to onshore its cleantech supply chains, who will actually build the energy transition, and where?
A Different Kind of Cleantech Company
“For years, North America has been financing the energy transition while letting other parts of the world build the things needed to deliver it,” said Mark Garvin, Founder and CEO of Canadian Energies. “That is changing fast. The companies that matter from here will be the ones that own their supply chain, control their delivery, and stand behind every megawatt they put on the grid. That is what we are building, and we are building it from Canada because Canada is exactly where it should be built.”
The timing is deliberate. Several forces are converging at once:
- Tariff and trade pressures are making overseas module supply less attractive than it looked even a year ago.
- Canada’s Investment Tax Credits and the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act now work together to reward continental, domestically made content.
- AI and hyperscale data centers are driving electricity demand higher, and faster, than utilities have planned for.
- Canadian pension funds and global infrastructure investors are looking for serious domestic cleantech opportunities they can actually back.
Canadian Energies is positioned at the intersection of all four.
One Platform, One Accountability
What makes Canadian Energies different is how the pieces fit together. Module manufacturing, utility-scale and C&I EPC, grid-scale and behind-the-meter battery storage, and module distribution all sit on a single platform, which means utilities and developers get one partner instead of five.
“There is a real cost to fragmentation in this industry,” said Richard Wilson, Chairman and President of Canadian Energies. “Developers and utilities have spent years coordinating between module suppliers, EPC contractors, storage vendors, and O&M providers, each with different incentives and different risk appetites. We have taken that off the table. With Canadian Energies, you get one platform, one team accountable end-to-end, and one balance sheet behind the project. That is what serious buyers want.”
The team behind it brings real operating experience. Canadian Energies’ leadership has built and scaled solar manufacturing and EPC delivery in some of the most demanding markets in the world before bringing that discipline home to Canada.
Open for Conversations
As the platform scales, Canadian Energies is opening conversations with a focused set of partners:
- Institutional and strategic investors looking for serious cleantech exposure
- Utility and corporate offtake partners ready to lock in long-duration clean power
- Landowners with interconnection-ready sites in Canada and the United States
- EPC, O&M, and module supply collaborators who want to build alongside the platform
The leadership team:
- Mark Garvin – Founder & CEO
- Richard Wilson – Chairman & President
- Russ Johnson – Chief Financial Officer
- Rory Woods – Director, Business Development
“Capital is everywhere right now. Real execution is not,” Mr. Garvin said. “What investors and offtakers actually want is a team that can deliver gigawatts on time, on budget, and on spec. That is the bar we are built to clear.”
The Bigger Picture
The energy transition is not really a climate story anymore. It is an industrial story, about who builds the factories, runs the supply chains, delivers the projects, and connects the megawatts. The countries and companies that can do all of that will define the next decade.
“The transition will not be imported,” Mr. Garvin said. “It has to be built. We are building it.”
About Canadian Energies
Canadian Energies is a vertically integrated solar and energy storage platform headquartered in Toronto, building North America’s next generation of cleantech manufacturing, EPC, and storage capability. The company is advancing a 10 GW solar module manufacturing facility in Canada, alongside utility-scale and commercial & industrial solar EPC, grid-scale and behind-the-meter battery energy storage deployment, and high-efficiency solar module distribution including TOPCon and bifacial technologies.
This press release contains forward-looking statements regarding Canadian Energies’ planned manufacturing capacity, project pipeline, partnerships, and strategic initiatives. Actual results may differ materially from those projected. Canadian Energies undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements except as required by applicable law.