Green Lightning Energy Becomes a Certified B Corporation
- Jason Plant
- Jul 10
- 3 min read
Solar Provider Recognized for Social and Environmental Leadership
Sanbornton, NH, July 10, 2025 – Green Lightning Energy, a New Hampshire based solar installer has been designated as a Certified B Corporation. With this milestone, Green Lightning joins a global movement of people using business as a force for good. Certified B Corporations meet high standards of verified social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency. The certification is administered by B Lab, a global nonprofit organization.
“Founding and operating a Certified B Corporation has been a long-time dream of mine. The certification validates our passion for a sustainable future and our commitment to provide our customers an affordable path to the incredible opportunities solar energy presents,” said Jason Plant, a Co-Founder of Green Lightning Energy and UNH alumnus.
“We committed to this path from day one. Being a Certified B Corp is about going beyond selling goods and services. The rigorous, multi-year process we took to achieve certification involved deep introspection on who we want to be as a company and how we want to pursue our mission to make quality, sustainable solar products affordable for everyday homeowners. It inspired action across every department of the business, ranging from adopting industry-leading ethical marketing policies to serving low socioeconomic status (SES) people and US military veterans in our community.”
Miles Drum, Director of Sales at Green Lightning and UNH alumnus, oversaw much of the work required to meet the B Corp Certification’s intensive standards for social and environmental performance, transparency, and accountability. “As a solar installer, the work we do every day has a very direct positive impact on our environment. The B Corp Certification process gave us a clear, values-driven framework to drive us to do more. We consciously designed our business to benefit our customers, our employees, our local communities, and our environment – beyond the inherent advantages of ‘going solar.’ As we grow the business, we aim to increase our impact every year.”
Franklin NH resident and Co-Founder of Green Lightning, Kadin Burns, reflects on the business’s trajectory: “Jason and I founded Green Lightning because both of our mothers wanted access to the financial and environmental benefits of solar energy, but couldn’t afford the burdensome upfront cost. By reworking the traditional solar installer model, we saved them $35,000 and $20,000 respectively on systems identical to what competitors had quoted. Making solar financially accessible to families like ours is core to our mission.”
“The B Corp Certification process helped us brainstorm new and exciting ways to advance our mission, such as our Solar Horizons Program. The more people that can afford solar, the more our collective carbon footprint can be reduced – a win-win scenario for everyone.”
About Green Lightning Energy:
Green Lightning Energy is a solar installer on a mission to make clean energy affordable for everyday homeowners. The company designs and builds solar systems, including residential, commercial, carports, and ground-mounts. Green Lightning’s consultative, stress-free, and educational approach as well as their affordable, high quality solar solutions have won the goodwill of customers throughout New Hampshire, and they are fast-expanding across Vermont, Maine, and Massachusetts.
For more information, please visit https://www.greenlightningsolar.com/.
About Certified B Corporations:
Certified B Corporations are leaders of a global movement of people using business as a force for good. They meet the highest standards of overall social and environmental performance, transparency and accountability and aspire to use the power of business to solve social and environmental problems. They must also adopt a Benefit Corp or Benefit LLC legal structure, safeguarding their impactful missions for generations to come. There are more than 9,500 Certified B Corporations, collectively employing over 930,000 workers, in over 160 industries and 102 countries with 1 unifying goal – to redefine success in business.
For more information, visit: www.bcorporation.net and www.benefitcorp.net.
Media Contact:
Jason Plant
Green Lightning Energy
603-393-1159
Having been off-grid for about 30 years now, I am passionate about the benefits of solar. Businesses like Green Lightning are instrumental to helping people become energy independent from power losses and unsustainable energy sources. In addition, every person who gets solar is helping all of us from having to be inconvenienced by mandatory black-outs and brown-outs, both of which are currently expected to become a reality without more sources of renewable energy. Green lightning helped one of my neighbors earn an annual check of about $1600 form the NHEC for excess electricity produced by their panels. This is a great company to support, because their business practices are also forward thinking and mindful that we have one plan…