Drake Plastics, a specialty plastics manufacturer, serves the aeronautics industry with a technology-focused and innovation-driven approach. As an industry leader in developing and manufacturing ultra-high-performance polymer stock shapes, injection-molded parts, and precision-machines components, Drake runs a highly sophisticated operation that consumes substantial amounts of energy. That reality made energy strategy a broad-level priority as the company planned its next phase of growth.

So when the company decided to build a new headquarters and manufacturing facility in Cypress, Texas, just outside of Houston, leadership saw an opportunity to align the building's design with its values. Drake set an ambitious, measurable target: offset 30% of the new facility's electricity consumption with an on-site commercial & industrial (C&I) solar PV system. But as the company that operates at the cutting edge of materials science, Drake also wanted its facilities to match, and a simple rooftop C&I PV system wouldn't suffice.

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