Powering the Energy Transition
We partner with clean energy business leaders to deliver sustainable, reliable, affordable energy to all.

Who We Are
Modern Energy® is a distributed energy company dedicated to providing affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy for all.
Our businesses deliver distributed energy solutions, including energy efficiency, energy storage, distributed generation, and demand management, to customers and markets in the United States and Brazil.
Modern Energy’s agile capital and industry-leading core infrastructure enable us to rapidly scale new distributed energy asset classes.
Four Stages of the Energy Transition
Increase Energy Productivity
Decarbonize Electric Power Generation
Electrify Everything Possible
Decarbonize What’s Left
What We Do
We make investments to accelerate the clean energy transition, by both building businesses ourselves and partnering with innovative energy entrepreneurs.
We execute on these investments via a playbook and platform that were tailor-made to accelerate clean energy businesses from seed to maturity.
Trust Our Partners
We trust that giving our partners room to run leads to better business outcomes, because talented business leaders know best when it comes to running their business.
Accelerate Growth
Our platform provides access to low-cost growth capital from seed to maturity, leading institutional, policy and regulatory knowledge in energy, and company-building support for a number of additional general and administrative functions.
Align Incentives
We offer a quicker path to liquidity for founders via profit sharing, and meaningful upside retention upon joining the Modern Energy family. Relative to other capital partners, this means you can receive meaningful compensation without needing an exit.
Our Team

Our Founders
Modern Energy was founded by Mark Laabs and Benjamin Abram, friends since 2007 with a shared aspiration to help tackle some the world’s biggest challenges. Mark and Ben have common roots in North Carolina’s Triangle.
Modern Energy is built on their foundational partnership: Ben acquired and incubated American Efficient, one of the leading managers of energy efficiency resources in the United States. Mark co-founded Faro Energy, one of the leading distributed solar companies in Brazil. Since establishing Modern Energy in 2016, initially as a combination of 100% of their ownership in those two firms, Mark and Ben have worked together to create an exceptional platform for people to contribute their time and talent to driving the energy transition.