
Before he became CEO of Pine Creek RNG, Kevin Orchard developed solar projects and built relationships with energy buyers. Now his work connects the gas beneath landfills to the pipelines, contracts, and capital that give it somewhere to go.

The lawyer-turned-developer learned that solar runs on statutes, queues and trust as much as sunshine. At Arena Renewables, that education became a near-1 GW pipeline and an acquisition before the company’s third anniversary.