In 2012, Cliff Kaehler left his New York City job in renewable energy finance because of his desire to make energy cheaper, cleaner, and more accessible for rural communities back home. Along with his parents Ralph and Mena, Cliff started Novel Energy Solutions at his family's 130-year-old farm in Saint Charles, Minnesota.
Growing up as a fifth-generation farmer, Cliff saw friends and family experience rising electricity costs eating away at already slim agricultural margins. Clean energy, like solar, required up-front investment that made for slow adoption, and financing options were sparse.
Growing up as a fifth-generation farmer, Cliff saw friends and family experience rising electricity costs eating away at already slim agricultural margins. Clean energy, like solar, required up-front investment that made for slow adoption, and financing options were sparse.
Services
Your Energy-Solutions Partner ENERGY Novel Energy delivers solar energy solutions helping provide sustainable options to meet evolving energy needs. We also offer a variety of energy-related products and services. Equally important, we are dedicated to quality, committed to environmental stewardship, and care about our communities.
Whether you are ready to own or lease an affordable solar energy solution, Novel Energy offers peace of mind. We provide options that are a good fit for you and benefit your bottom line. Solar projects are a great way to successfully integrate renewable energy as part of your energy portfolio. Whether you're ready to own, lease or just explore your options - our relationship with you is at the center of everything we do.
A Community Solar Garden (CSG) is a large solar electric array, located off-site, which generates bill credits for participating subscribers. This is a great solution for anyone wanting to support solar but unable to do so on their own. Save money on your energy with fixed savings, no upfront cost, no onsite construction and flexible terms.
Novel Energy Solutions contracts for land rights from landowners to build renewable energy projects. Our goal is to be good stewards of the land and work in partnership with landowners to meet their goals. Landowners benefit financially from partnering with Novel Energy. Leasing your land to Novel increases your profitability for your land as a whole with guaranteed income for at least 25 years.
We make it easy and affordable to power your business in an efficient way. By gathering utility customer data, we can determine the average annual usage of your facility. We will use this information to create a savings analysis to accurately estimate your savings by working with us. Conservation strategies can bring you ten years of energy-cost savings, with a payback time of under three years.