Define the decision
Define the decision or challenge.
Energy consulting / Solar Data Pros
Complex energy questions need more than a data point.
Solar Data Pros combines energy data, modeling, industry experience, and business strategy to help organizations evaluate complex energy decisions with greater context.
From project development and storage to solar service strategy and energy efficiency, we help turn available information into a clearer path forward.
Data, context, and direction for decisions that cross traditional energy lines
From inputs to informed direction.A decision framework for complex energy questions.
Consulting view
Energy dataAvailable source information
Project variablesTechnical and operating context
Market contextPolicy, utility, and industry conditions
Business objectivesThe decision in front of the organization
Informed direction
→Organize the variables before choosing the path.No fabricated project metrics shown.
Illustrative consulting framework. Inputs and outputs vary by engagement and available project information.
Project Developers
Investors & Financiers
Solar Providers
Energy Service Companies
01 / Start with the question
Start with the decision that needs to be made.
Energy projects rarely hinge on a single number. Technical requirements, consumption patterns, project economics, available technologies, market conditions, and business objectives can all affect what deserves consideration. Solar Data Pros helps organize those variables around the decision in front of the client.
Identify the information
Identify the information available to inform it.
Consider the variables
Consider operational, market, and project variables.
Evaluate relationships
Evaluate relevant scenarios and relationships.
Turn analysis into action
Turn the analysis into a useful next step.
The objective is not analysis for analysis's sake. It is better information for the decision that follows.
02 / Project & infrastructure modeling
Model the variables before committing the capital.
Complex energy infrastructure decisions can involve generation, storage, facility demand, equipment requirements, operating assumptions, and project economics. Solar Data Pros brings those variables into a structured analytical framework so clients can evaluate scenarios before determining the appropriate path forward.
Coordinate the relationships inside the project model.
Evaluate the relationship among generation, electrolyzer requirements, storage, operating assumptions, and project objectives within a coordinated project model.
- Solar generation and production assumptions
- Electrolyzer and storage relationships
- Scenario and project-variable analysis
- Decision support for developers and financial stakeholders
Bring facility demand into the storage question.
Evaluate facility energy use alongside potential storage applications to provide better context for project planning and further technical evaluation.
- Facility consumption and demand patterns
- Storage scenario analysis
- Solar and storage relationships
- Project context for owners and installation partners
03 / Solar business strategy
Turn energy data into a stronger service strategy.
The customer relationship does not have to end when the installation is complete. Solar Data Pros works with solar organizations exploring ways to use performance and consumption information across service, customer retention, system expansion, storage conversations, and recurring-revenue models.
Read the conditions around the business.
Policy, utility programs, customer expectations, technology, and business models continue to reshape the solar industry.
Find useful customer touchpoints.
Consider where performance data, consumption information, monitoring, follow-up, and additional energy services can create useful customer touchpoints.
Translate the opportunity into execution.
Translate the opportunity into processes, service models, customer workflows, and an approach the organization can actually execute.
The SolarFax® platform can support this strategy by bringing solar production and available consumption information into the customer relationship.Explore the SolarFax® platform for Professionals ↗
Property energy picture
Solar generation
Electricity consumption
HVAC & major loads
Energy storage
Facility operations
Efficiency opportunities
04 / Beyond solar
Energy decisions increasingly cross traditional industry lines.
Solar, storage, HVAC, efficiency, facility operations, and utility consumption increasingly intersect. Understanding those relationships can help organizations identify where additional analysis, professional evaluation, or customer services may be useful.
Where we collaborate
- HVAC & home comfortUse energy information as additional context when serving solar-enabled properties.
- Commercial & industrialBring facility consumption, demand, generation, and storage questions into a broader analytical view.
- Clean energy projectsSupport early-stage evaluation and scenario development for emerging energy applications.
05 / From question to direction
From complex question to actionable direction.
A consulting engagement brings the relevant information into view, examines the relationships that matter, and gives the client a usable next step.
Start with the business or project question.
Clarify what decision needs support and what information is required.
Bring the relevant information together.
Review available energy data, operating information, project variables, and other relevant inputs.
Examine relationships and scenarios.
Use analysis and modeling appropriate to the question rather than relying solely on averages or assumptions.
Turn the work into a usable next step.
Provide findings and context the client can carry into planning, investment, technical, or operational conversations.
Data is the input. A better-informed decision is the objective.
Solar Data Pros provides data analysis, modeling, business strategy, and decision-support services. Consulting work does not replace project-specific engineering, electrical evaluation, licensed contractor work, legal or financial advice, utility determinations, or other qualified professional services where required.
06 / Experience behind the work
Experience across energy, operations, and business strategy.
Solar Data Pros was founded in 2016 to bring greater clarity to energy information through data and analysis. The company's consulting work combines that analytical foundation with practical experience across solar, operations, business development, leadership, and emerging energy applications.
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Energy-industry experienceExperience across California solar, energy data, customer services, and evolving energy applications.
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Business and operational perspectiveStrategy is considered alongside implementation, customer experience, operations, and commercial realities.
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Data-centered analysisAvailable source information and project-specific inputs provide the foundation for analysis rather than relying solely on generalized assumptions.
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Leroy Coffman
Co-Founder & CEO, Solar Data Pros
Leroy brings decades of leadership experience across multiple industries and more than a decade of experience in California's solar industry, including operations, installation, manufacturing, business development, and executive leadership. He later co-founded Solar Data Pros to help bring greater clarity to energy decisions through data.
B.S. Finance & Entrepreneurship
University of Southern CaliforniaEMBA
Craig School of Business, CSU Fresno
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University of Southern CaliforniaEMBA
Craig School of Business, CSU Fresno
Start with the question
Bring us the complicated question.
Tell us what you're evaluating, what information you already have, and where the uncertainty begins. We'll start there.