ABOUT US
We built Kriya Partners because we've been inside the industry long enough to know where projects get stuck.
We started Kriya because we saw that the pre-construction side of solar - design, engineering, permitting, interconnection - was consistently the bottleneck slowing installs down and eating into margins.
We work directly with each customer, one-on-one.
No call centers, no ticket queues. We know the AHJs, we know the utility portals, and we know how to move projects through them - across markets nationwide.
If your projects are taking longer than they should, that's the problem we solve.
Kris Sipe
Kris Sipe has spent 25 years in the renewables industry across Australasia and the US - as an energy trader in Australia, where he helped grow Origin Energy into one of the country's largest energy retailers, and as the founder and CEO of SunBadger, the largest residential solar installer in the midwest. That combination of market-level thinking and ground-level operations gives him a firsthand understanding of what developers and installers are actually up against.
Kris co-founded Kriya Partners to address the part of the solar process that consistently slows everything else down - and leads business development while serving as the technical resource for projects that need a deeper look.
Joey Cardella
Joey Cardella has spent his career building systems that make complex things work - from water infrastructure in rural South Africa with the Peace Corps, to building the operational foundation at High Five Solar Permits from the ground up. That work taught him what it takes to get a service business functioning at scale across multiple markets.
The gaps he kept seeing in the solar industry - the miscommunication, the delays, the things that fall through the cracks between sale and installation - are what led him to co-found Kriya.
Sharon Hansen
Customer, customer, customer. That's Sharon's mantra with over two decades transforming operations across some of Australia's toughest regulated sectors - water, energy and agriculture, she is now taking on the US market.
Sharon is the rare operator who designs the customer experience strategy, builds the system that delivers it, and works directly with customers to make sure it lands.
Sharon has steered more than $1 billion in project delivery and built ISO-aligned quality systems that turn good intentions into repeatable, "first time right" results.
At Kriya, she brings that same strategic insight and operational grit to scaling clean energy project services and brings radical transparency and accountability to customer service.
Need to Get things moving?
Tell us what you’re working on. We’ll tell you how we can help.
No lengthy onboarding. Just a direct conversation about what your project needs and whether we’re the right fit.