Board Member since 2020, Advisor since 2015
PI Energy is the future of clean energy: affordable solar energy with the flexibility to provide power just about anywhere, enabling solar energy that is low-cost, non-toxic, and globally scalable, with the potential to accelerate developing regions into sustainable modernity, creating a positive impact for billions of people.
Latest News: Mike Allman was hired as CEO and David Keogh as Technical Advisor.
In December 2023, our technical evaluation of the quality of our solar photovoltaic (PV) materials indicated that our semiconductor materials are performing significantly better than anticipated, boosting our confidence that our solar modules will be more competitive than previously projected.
Advisory Board Member since 2019
Artificial Intelligence for Smart Electric Vehicle Fleet Management and Charging.
Latest News: California Energy Commission approves a $3.3-million grant to MOEV Inc. to demonstrate an artificial intelligence-based fleet charging management system with DERs including electric transit buses, charging stations, a battery energy storage system, and solar PV
Co-founder, Chief Strategy Officer, est. 2020
Connect California’s mission is to enable electric customers to leverage energy assets they already have to provide safe, clean, and inexpensive resiliency.
The ConnectDER Solar Meter Socket Adapter (MSA) and EV MSA have been certified. The Solar MSA is generally available. The EV MSA is being shipped to select customers.
Advisory Board Member since 2020
UCAP Power™ is an exciting new startup that provides ultracapacitor-based solutions across a wide range of renewable markets.
Ultracapacitor systems use sustainable based products offering a long-lasting source of reliable power storage that can eliminate lead-acid or other hazardous batteries.
With our UP™ line of products, we are starting a power revolution.
Latest News: UCAP Power, Inc. Announces follow on Investment from Nabors Industries bringing Nabors total strategic investment in UCAP to $3.5 million.
Co-founder, Advisory Board Member, est. 2020
Trianon Renewable Grid Stability, LLC (Trianon Grid) is a technology commercialization and marketing firm whose product is a revolutionary control software that enhances the performance of power inverters, enabling solar and other renewable facilities to deliver high-quality electricity, helping to stabilize the grid and facilitate the implementation of a grid powered entirely with renewable energy.
Latest News: Trianon’s partner Synvertec is moving forward with a proprietary inverter with embedded software to create “synchronverters” that enable large-scale interconnection.
Advisory Board Member, est. 2021
Sinewatts enables the transformation of the electric vehicle charging infrastructure market, and in so doing, transportation electrification itself. By lowering the size, weight, and cost of the charging infrastructure, hundreds of billions of dollars of spending is avoided, transforming vehicle batteries into mobile energy transport devices, fueled by solar during the day and bring the power home at night.
Latest News: Plug And Play selects Sinewatts into their Summer 2021 Program, where it will receive unprecedented access to the Plug And Play corporate, VC, and mentor network.
Co-founder, Advisory Board Member, est. 2018
restorVault intelligent virtualization can free up over 80% of server storage for business data, reducing cost, hardware, and energy use, while increasing protection, compliance, sustainability, and access for your business.
Latest News: Startup restorVault reaches profitability in Q1 2024.
Board of Directors, Operations Chair, 2011 – 2014, 2018 – 2023
An advanced digital grid is the critical infrastructure component of a decarbonized economy.
The GridWise Alliance leads a diverse membership of electricity industry stakeholders focused on accelerating innovation that delivers a secure, reliable, resilient, and affordable grid to support the decarbonization of the US economy.
Latest News: White House recognizes the launch of the formation of the Grid Infrastructure Advisory Council (GIAC) to support the Alliance’s call for at least $50 billion in federal spending to modernize the nation’s electric power transmission and distribution systems.
Advisory Committee Member since 2019
DISTRIBUTECH International is the leading annual transmission and distribution event that addresses technologies used to move electricity from the power plant through the transmission and distribution systems to the meter and inside the home. The conference and exhibition offer information, products, and services related to electricity delivery automation and control systems, energy efficiency, demand response, renewable energy integration, advanced metering, T&D system operation and reliability, communications technologies, cybersecurity, water utility technology, and more.
Latest News: DistribuTECH in February in Orlando, Florida was awesome! The Climate Champions did a LIVE episode from the EXPO! Lee’s guest was Whit Fulton, CEO, ConnectDER.
Advisory Board Member 2018 – 2021
Sol Systems is a leading, national solar energy firm with an established reputation for integrity and reliability across its three distinct and complementary businesses: Sol Trading, Sol Fund & Asset Management, and Sol Customer Solutions.
Latest News: Sol Systems has surpassed 2 GW of solar projects developed and/or financed valued at more than $2 billion for Fortune 100 companies, municipalities, counties, utilities, universities, and schools.
Board Member 2012 – 2019
GridX is the leading provider of Business Operations Support (BOS) Cloud, a suite of cloud services to enable utilities, Retail Energy Suppliers, and Community Choice Aggregators (CCA’s) to streamline their customer operations and transform their businesses.
Latest News: GridX Announces $40 Million in Series C Funding and Appoints New CEO – Chris Black.