About Us
For solar energy to have a sustainable future, mutually beneficial business relationships need to blossom, thrive, and grow. That's why we treat each and every one of our clients with the same professionalism and respect with which we would want to be treated.
It means being responsive, open, and honest. Paying attention to details, without taking ourselves too seriously. Taking pride in our work, as though we were designing, financing, and constructing solar energy systems not just for ourselves, but for our children, and their children. It means caring enough to always expand the definition of "doing our personal best". It means sharing our client's goals, and working together to help reach them.
It means being responsive, open, and honest. Paying attention to details, without taking ourselves too seriously. Taking pride in our work, as though we were designing, financing, and constructing solar energy systems not just for ourselves, but for our children, and their children. It means caring enough to always expand the definition of "doing our personal best". It means sharing our client's goals, and working together to help reach them.
Advisory Board of Silver Lining Solar
Ian Diamond
Ian is our newest Advisory Board member, with more than 30 years of business management experience, including 10 years of solar energy business and project development. Ian’s solar business experience covers a range of perspectives and requirements, including over 40 MW of solar generation. At ConEdison Solutions, a subsidiary of ConEdison, Ian was part of a team that focused on solar generation from a long-term utility perspective. At Solar City, as part of the commercial project development team, he focused on providing economically attractive solar and energy storage solutions for commercial and public sector clients. At Syncarpha Capital, a private equity firm, working with solar developers and EPC companies, Ian actively acquired solar projects for long term ownership.
Barrett Silver
A fifteen-year veteran of the solar industry, Barrett has helped clients in the residential, commercial, and utility scale sectors of the industry employ over 5 MW of solar energy.
He started Silver Lining Solar in 2015 to focus on the needs of local businesses and nonprofits so that they could fully realize the benefits of solar technology for their bottom lines and their communities.
Barrett has helped commercial solar clients as diverse as Regeneron, The Tarrytown Music Hall, The Jacob Burns Media Lab, among many others, and has worked for the solar industry’s leading panel and racking manufacturers. He graduated cum laude from Duke University and holds a Master’s Degree in Philosophy from Brown University. He currently serves as a member of the New Castle Sustainability Advisory Board and lives in Chappaqua, New York in a home that makes its own solar domestic hot water.