About Rundle Energy Advisory
An independent advisory firm founded by Peter Rundle. We are advisory only: no ownership, development or construction interest in the projects we review.
About Peter Rundle
PRINCIPAL, RUNDLE ENERGY ADVISORY
Peter Rundle is the principal of Rundle Energy Advisory, an independent advisory firm. He brings 12 years of hands-on solar and battery storage development to every review. As founder and principal of Solar Smart LLC, established in 2014, he has advanced projects from site evaluation through permitting, interconnection, procurement, and financing preparation.
His projects are distributed and community-scale solar and battery energy storage systems (BESS) of 1 to 10 MW in Massachusetts, New York, and Maryland. He understands the linked decisions behind a financeable project: utility studies, schedules, equipment selection, EPC scope and pricing, incentives, and capital requirements.
A developer building AI for developers
Peter works with a network of specialist advisers and is building the AI platform that supports every REA review. Shaped by real project work rather than generic software, the platform brings project records, utility correspondence, EPC proposals, and financial models into one place. From there it can flag duplicate or missing scope across bids, surface interconnection schedule changes buried in email, keep the risk register current, and compare scenarios side by side. The team is proving the platform first on active solar and storage projects in Massachusetts, so every feature answers a problem developers actually face.
Advisory backed by the platform
Through Rundle Energy Advisory, Peter works with developers, lenders, investors, and companies entering the market. He reviews projects the way an owner would: spotting weak assumptions early, reconciling competing estimates, and focusing diligence on the issues that change cost, timing, or value. The platform speeds the review, and his development experience checks every finding before it becomes a recommendation.
Tax credits and program changes
Federal tax rules and state programs now change faster than most development schedules. Peter brings construction-start and placed-in-service deadlines, safe harbor documentation, investment tax credit eligibility, domestic content, foreign entity of concern (FEOC) sourcing rules, and state programs such as Massachusetts SMART into development planning. He helps teams frame the right questions for tax and legal specialists and see how the answers affect financing, schedules, and returns.
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Independent. Confidential. Experienced.
REA is operated separately from Solar Smart LLC, the development company Peter founded in 2014. We will not take an engagement on any project in which Solar Smart has or seeks an interest, we are paid only by our clients, and every engagement starts with a mutual NDA.
Track record
Experience behind the advice
Peter and his partners have invested over $55 million to develop and/or construct twelve community solar projects in Massachusetts and Maryland totaling more than 22.7 MW, including Maryland’s first two community solar projects and one of the first Massachusetts community solar projects paired with battery storage.
Case Study #1
Amesbury Line Solar — Haverhill, Massachusetts
Peter developed a community solar project paired with a battery energy storage system in Haverhill, Massachusetts, interconnected to National Grid’s distribution system and structured to participate in the Massachusetts SMART program, including a Low-Income subscriber allocation.
The project’s interconnection process illustrates exactly the kind of risk our advisory services are built to catch early. After the initial interconnection agreement was signed, the utility’s system impact study identified the need for additional protection equipment, requiring a formal amendment to the interconnection agreement and a meaningful increase in interconnection-related costs. The project’s scope also evolved during development as engineering and program requirements were refined — a common but underappreciated source of financing risk on community solar projects.
Peter carried the project from origination through to a turnkey EPC agreement, tax equity financing, and a multi-year interconnection process to substantial completion — the project is now in final commissioning and utility witness testing — before successfully selling the completed project to an investment entity.
I think it’s one of the most professional plans we’ve received.
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