Neville Williams

Founder and former CEO of Standard Solar Inc. and Author of SUN POWER (Forge, NY, 2015)

Neville Williams is the founder and former CEO of  Standard Solar Inc., a Maryland-based solar energy services company that installs residential,  commercial and utility-scale solar power systems which he launched in 2005. He is the author of  SUN POWER (Forge, NY, 2015), an account of his 30 years experience in the solar electricity business worldwide. Mr Williams first became involved with solar energy during the Carter Administration as a consultant to the U.S. Department of Energy.

Williams began his career as a journalist, working as a freelance war correspondent in Vietnam, and later as a writer-producer for WNBC-TV News, NY.  He has been a contributor to the NY Times Magazine, Outside, The Nation, The New Republic, Solar Today, Nature, and numerous other publications.

In 1990, Williams founded the non-profit Solar Electric Light Fund to bring solar electricity to unelectrified people in the developing world. The organization has assisted national governments and communities in a dozen countries to implement “solar seed” projects. He later launched the Solar Electric Light Company (SELCO) and co-founded SELCO-India, a profitable  commercial venture in India that has brought household solar power and light to over 250,000 families. He is currently a co-developer of mid-size solar farms in New Mexico to serve rural electric cooperatives. He lives in Naples, Florida with his wife, Patricia Forkan.