Company history
Our commitment to solving problems has never changed
In 2014, the founding team of Ampacity launched an innovative business model offering the first turnkey solar tracker solution on the market and providing world-class support to projects across the country. Since then, Ampacity has grown into the leading equipment distributor and solutions provider serving the renewable energy market.
Since its inception, Ampacity has delivered results to customers on both individual projects and across national portfolios. Headquartered in Monterey, California, Ampacity maintains facilities in California, Mississippi, Kentucky, Iowa, Atlanta, and Florida, with projects completed and underway throughout the United States and Canada.
Timeline
RP Construction Services (RPCS) founded
- Eben Russell founds RPCS to bring solar trackers to the emerging DG market
RPCS innovates
- RPCS gives early-stage commitments for design, budgeting, scheduling, and workmanship guarantees
RPCS becomes the leading expert and service provider for tracking technology
- 85% market share 2018—2020
- Emerging market needs solutions and services
- Establish national mobile workforce to accelerate solar deployment
- Onboard key players; offer single scope work to alleviate pressure under tight schedules
Established leader
- Design-build expertise allows for supply scalability
- Streamline formula for project delivery
- Increased customer base and continued long-term relationships
- Named Inc. 5000 Company; No. 10 solar contractor in the US
- 900+ projects, 2.5GW completed
- Resume and reputation for safety, quality, reliability
- Partnerships span all US regions and into Canada, and deep pipelines
RPCS expands
- Opens a new sales and marketing operations office in Tampa, Florida
- Achieves 4GW and 1,000+ project milestone
RPCS becomes part of the Quanta Services family of companies
- RPCS becomes an independent operating unit under Quanta Services
- RPCS opens distribution and logistics facility in Brooks, Kentucky
- Quanta Services Named the No. 1 solar contractor in the U.S., an achievement made possible by the collaborative work of three Quanta operating companies: Blattner Company, RPCS, and The Ryan Company
- RPCS establishes vendor relationship to Nextracker, the global market leader in solar trackers
RPCS expands offerings to include electric balance-of-systems solutions
- New partnerships allow RPCS to extend focus on design, constructability, and customer success to the electrical balance of plant
- RPCS streamlines eBOS procurement with a “one-stop-shop” approach to electrical supply
- On-hand inventory reduces lead times and provides certainty to customers with tight construction schedules
- RPCS becomes the exclusive US distributor supplying Huaxing Cable USA’s cable and wire solutions to utility-scale solar projects
RPCS evolves, becoming Ampacity
Ampacity is born to reflect the company’s expanded scope of solutions and with a mission to accelerate the clean energy transition.
