March 3, 2015

First National Solar Company Comes to NC

Sungevity, Inc., a solar-energy company co-founded by a UNC alumus, will become the first national solar company to operate in North Carolina, according to a Feb. 19 announcement from the company. 

 
Alec Guettel, a Morehead-Cain scholar who graduated from UNC in 1991, co-founded Sungevity with two friends in 2007.
 
“Like most new companies, we were trying to fill a hole in the market,” Guettel said. “We knew the public’s mindset on solar energy wasn’t extremely positive, and we sought to change that.”