Company history
Our commitment to solving problems has never changed
In 2014, Ampacity’s founding team launched an innovative business model: bringing the first turnkey solar tracker solution to market and delivering world-class support to distributed generation and utility-scale projects across the country. What started as a specialized solar supply chain partner has grown into one of the leading equipment distributors and solutions providers serving the clean energy infrastructure sector.
Over the past decade, Ampacity has delivered results for customers on individual projects and across national portfolios—expanding our capabilities, facilities, and market reach every step of the way. Today, Ampacity is headquartered in Monterey, California, with distribution facilities in Mississippi, Kentucky, and Iowa, and offices in California, Georgia, Florida, and Vermont. Our projects span the United States and Canada, and our product and solutions offerings now extend beyond solar into wind, battery energy storage systems (BESS), EV charging infrastructure, data centers, and utilities.
The problems we solve have grown more complex, but our commitment to solving them hasn’t changed.
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 electrical goods procurement with a unique 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.
Ampacity Opens 300,000-Square-Foot Distribution Center in Des Moines, Iowa
Ampacity’s new distribution facility represents the company’s commitment to serving the construction firms, developers, and utilities building solar, wind, battery storage, and data center infrastructure projects across the United States. The facility functions as an operational hub carrying out the stocking, fulfillment, logistics, kitting and prefabrication, and material storage functions that keep large, complex projects running smoothly.
Ampacity expands to serve all electrical markets
Ampacity formalizes its expansion beyond solar into wind, BESS, EV charging, data centers, and utility power transmission markets—bringing the same depth of structural expertise, electrical supply capabilities, and logistical precision that defined its solar leadership to every segment of the energy transition.