Inside the Solar Executive MBA Data Room

We just published a new course, and there’s nothing else like it in the world: Inside the Solar Executive MBA Data Room.

Keith Cronin opened up actual data room documents and models he uses to develop, finance, and sell solar projects, and turned it into a course. You get the documents, the financial model, and the walkthrough of how it all fits together, from the deals he’s closing right now.

Real Documents for Diligence, Financing & Contracts

This isn’t a course that talks about contracts in the abstract. You get the contracts. That includes:

• EPC Agreement (Engineering, Procurement, and Construction)
• DSA (Development Services Agreement)
• MIPA (Membership Interest Purchase Agreement)
• O&M Agreement
• PPA/SSA (Power Purchase Agreement/Solar Services Agreement) with site license
• A full financial model for evaluating a development deal or an acquisition
• An intake form that shows you what finance parties actually look for
• A data room template for organizing project documents
• A project screening tool with a risk matrix covering site control, permitting, power offtake, interconnection, engineering, and construction

If you’ve ever tried to get your hands on documents like these, you know they’re not something you find with a Google search. Companies pay real money to lawyers and consultants to draft and refine agreements like this. You’re getting instant access to all of it, updated as of July 2026, plus two full case studies (California and Rhode Island) where you apply everything to real project scenarios and get feedback from Keith directly.

The real value isn’t the paperwork, it’s knowing what to do with it

A contract template is a great start. But that’s not the hard part.

The hard part is knowing which terms in an EPC agreement actually matter, what a finance party is really evaluating when they look at your intake form, how to read a financial model and know if a deal pencils out, and where the risk hides in interconnection or site control before it blows up your timeline. That knowledge lives in a pretty small number of heads — the people who’ve actually closed these deals, more than once, in more than one market.

This course is Keith walking you through how he thinks about a deal, step by step, quadrant by quadrant: economics and financial modeling, real estate and site control, interconnection and utility, and EPC and construction. By the end of the course you will know how to screen a project, spot the gating items, and think about a deal the way an investor or acquirer would.

Taught by someone who does this for a living

Keith Cronin has spent two-plus decades developing and financing solar projects across the U.S. This is what he does every day — this course is built directly from his own data room experience, not a generic curriculum. He’s also taught the Solar Executive MBA on HeatSpring for more than ten years, so he knows how to translate real deal experience into something you can actually learn and apply.

Talk deals directly with Keith and other students

Keith runs optional monthly calls where you can bring your own assignment questions, talk through deal specifics, and get context and strategy for whatever you’re navigating in your own project pipeline. It’s a chance to work through real situations with someone who’s actually closed deals like yours, and to hear how other students in the course are approaching their own projects.

Discount for the first students

Use the code “SummerMBA” to enroll before September 1st and you’ll get 30% off.

You get instant access as soon as you enroll, and your access lasts a full year, so you can move through the material at your own pace and come back to the documents and financial model whenever you’re working a live deal.