About Us

BUILDING THE GRID'S NEXT CHAPTER

Who We Are

Clean Grid Development was founded in 2020 to bring better tools and better execution to the front end of renewable energy development. What started as a land acquisition firm has grown into an AI-powered origination platform serving developers, IPPs, and utilities across every major US market. We combine proprietary market intelligence, automated diligence, and a 1,000+ landowner agreement track record to deliver sites that are ready to take to the queue.

What We Do


Clean Grid runs a vertically integrated origination operation built on in-house tools and a senior team with deep utility-scale solar and battery storage experience. We screen infrastructure and land across the country, analyze interconnection capacity, validate zoning and environmental constraints, and execute landowner outreach at scale — all from a single platform we built ourselves. Whether developers want to acquire a fully diligenced portfolio or embed our origination engine in their process under a DSA, we deliver projects, not leads.


We're building the origination infrastructure renewable energy needs to scale.

Our Team


A senior team that has spent careers on the front end of utility-scale solar and battery storage development — site origination, landowner relationships, and execution.

Our Team

Michael Lahris

Michael Lahris

Managing Director

Pete Aamoth

Pete Aamoth

Managing Director

Jeff Plangman

Jeff Plangman

Senior Project Developer

Shelley Spore

Shelley Spore

Senior Project Developer

Brett Tortorici

Brett Tortorici

Senior Project Developer

Cody T. Shadley

Cody T. Shadley

Senior Project Developer