Hawthorne Energy Infrastructure LLC (“HEI”) is owned by Hawthorne World, the net-zero development platform Dr. Ganesan Visvabharathy founded in 1984. Over four decades the platform has developed, built, and restored multifamily, senior living, and commercial assets, with ground-source, solar, and integrated mechanical design in the original specification.
Platform established
This business takes that knowledge to buildings the platform did not build: plant inside facilities that cannot be taken out of service and will not be replaced by their owners. On new construction we participate at design stage, funding and owning the energy infrastructure within the project.
Reference assets
Hawthorne World platform
Asset
Location
Scope
Status
MERU Campus of Care
Alleghany County, Virginia
Net-zero elder care campus. Net-zero carbon and net-zero energy certified; solar generation; National Green Building Standard Gold.
Completed
Garden Station
Villa Park, Illinois
348-unit mixed-use residential community designed to Passive House principles and net-zero energy performance.
In development
Coco Palms Resort
Kauai, Hawaii
Restoration of a 350-room resort on 48 acres, targeting net-zero energy and net-zero carbon operation.
In development
Platform
Hawthorne World
HEI role
Affiliate reference only
Basis
As stated by the platform
Alleghany County, Virginia · Completed
Villa Park, Illinois · In development · Rendering
Kauai, Hawaii · In development · Rendering to follow
MERU is the completed, certified reference asset. Garden Station and Coco Palms are platform projects in development and are shown on that basis.
Hawthorne Energy Infrastructure does not claim these as its own transactions. They are the delivery record of the platform that owns it.
A long-duration owner of mechanical and energy infrastructure. We acquire it from asset owners, modernize it, and operate it under agreements measured in decades. Every engagement begins with an assessment and concludes in a document setting out what we own, what we warrant, and what happens if we fall short.
Scope, service levels, measurement, remedies, investment obligations, and end-of-term options are written into the agreement at execution, since a term of this length will outlast the people who negotiated it.
We are paid on the systems performing over the term, not on what is specified, installed, or delivered.
Systems that cannot be instrumented and reported against stay with the owner. So do operations, staffing, and program decisions, for the whole term.
Provided to the owner on completion.
