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One of the largest single-site commercial renewable energy projects in the United States — a fully integrated energy platform combining generation, storage, and electric vehicle infrastructure across 637,000 square feet of solar carport canopy.
The site operates one of the most thermally and electrically intensive entertainment loads in North America. Roller coasters, water rides, lighting, refrigeration, and food service combine to produce a load profile that peaks in the summer afternoons, exactly when grid electricity is most expensive and least clean.
The mandate was straightforward in concept and complex in execution: deploy enough on-site renewable capacity to offset the site's full annual electricity consumption, integrate energy storage to shift production into the evening peak, build EV charging across guest and employee parking, and complete every phase of construction without taking the site offline.
Energy Optimum's affiliated EPC partner, Solar Optimum, led design, engineering, and construction. Energy Optimum structured the capital and contracted the long-term offtake under a Power Purchase Agreement — no upfront capital required, no asset on the offtaker's balance sheet, and a guaranteed energy cost trajectory for the contract term.
The economic structure mirrors the platform's standard institutional model. Energy Optimum owns the assets for the contract term. The offtaker purchases the energy generated at a contracted rate — structured as an operating expense, not a capital outlay. There is no equipment financing on the offtaker's books, no maintenance contracts to manage, and no performance risk allocated to the offtaker.
This is the model the platform extends across the commercial and institutional book: deploy capital, build the infrastructure, operate it, bear the performance risk, and price the energy as a predictable operating cost for the offtaker. The same discipline applies whether the offtaker is a Fortune 100 manufacturer or a public-sector school district.
The project transforms existing parking infrastructure into a revenue-generating energy asset. Steel carport canopy structures span 637,000 square feet of guest and team-member parking, shading vehicles during operating hours while producing clean power at scale. Beneath the canopy, the storage and EV systems convert solar generation into dispatchable energy and consumer-facing infrastructure.
Tier-1 module deployment across approximately 637,000 sq ft of engineered carport canopy. Covers 3,544 guest spaces and 771 team-member spaces.
Integrated lithium-ion battery system enabling time-shifting of midday solar production into the evening operational peak and providing demand-charge optimization.
100 EV dispensers deployed across guest and employee parking, integrated with the storage and generation system — powered directly by the project's own clean-energy output.
Carport-integrated LED lighting and security infrastructure improving the guest experience while reducing the site's ambient electrical load.
The system is sized to produce approximately 20.8 million kilowatt-hours of clean electricity annually — sufficient to offset the entire metered electricity consumption of the site's operating year. Over the project's 30-year operating period, the system is projected to generate roughly 517 million kWh of renewable electricity.
Environmental equivalencies calculated using EPA conversion factors applied to projected annual and lifetime generation.
Six Flags Magic Mountain is the platform's hero project not because of its size alone, but because of what its structure demonstrates: a creditworthy commercial offtaker, a long-duration contracted revenue stream, fully bundled generation-plus-storage-plus-electrification, and zero capital exposure to the offtaker — all delivered without disrupting a single operating day at one of the most schedule-sensitive entertainment venues in North America.
The installation is part of a broader multi-site initiative spanning several entertainment destinations across the United States. Combined on-site generation across affiliated installations exceeds 42 megawatts — one of the largest portfolios of on-site photovoltaic systems deployed at any U.S. multi-venue operation.
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Energy Optimum works with commercial, municipal, and institutional offtakers to structure on-site infrastructure that mirrors the discipline applied at Six Flags Magic Mountain — tuned to your offtaker profile, balance-sheet posture, and procurement reality.
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