A four-year-old energy company that supplies wind and solar power has expanded to Baltimore County's Catonsville.
Clean Currents LLC opened an office at 813 Frederick Road this month.
Company execs chose Catonsville after holding a town hall meeting on green energy at the Catonsville library in 2007, Clean Currents President Gary Skulnik says. More than 300 households signed up for Clean Currents. Catonsville is a "green-minded community," Skulnik says. "It's great to be there. We have so much energy on that side."
After that meeting, Clean Currents started a residential program. "I thought, maybe we are onto something here," Skulnik says. Today, it has 6,000 residential customers.
Based in Rockville, Clean Currents employs 20. It is starting out small at the Catonsville office, with just two workers and less than 1,000 square feet of space, but the company has ambitious goals. If all goes well, the business could add as many as 30 employees in the next 18 months as it adds more customers in Pennsylvania, Skulnik says. The firm wants to become the dominant green energy company in the mid-Atlantic region.
He says the company also chose Catonsville because because the downtown area contains numerous restaurants and services. It's also convenient to Interstate 95 and 695 and minutes from downtown Baltimore.
Skulnik declined to say how much the company spent on the move.
Source: Gary Skulnik, Clean Currents
Writer: Julekha Dash