Clean Energy Advisory & Development
Utility-scale renewables (solar, wind, storage), project development, project finance, and the M&A/advisory ecosystem around renewable assets.
Experts
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6Lynn Jurich
Executive Co-Chair, Co-Founder
Sunrun
Defined the residential solar TPO model and remains one of the most credible operator-investors in distributed clean energy.
Edward Fenster
Co-Founder, Vice Chair
Sunrun
The person inside Sunrun who actually built the structured-finance plumbing. Uniquely deep on capital stacks for distributed energy.
Nat Kreamer
Founder
Fairtide
Rare operator-investor with both deep solar lineage and an active portfolio in industrial-decarbonization adjacencies.
Mary Powell
CEO
Sunrun
One of very few executives who has run both a forward-thinking utility and a distributed-energy public company. Sees the grid from both sides.
Scott Strazik
Chief Executive Officer
GE Vernova
CEO of the largest U.S. listed pure-play grid + power-equipment company. Single most important grid-OEM operator perspective.
Amit Narayan
Founder & CEO
Climate-AI Ventures
Authored the modern VPP / DERMS playbook; now a thesis-driven early-stage investor with deep operating credibility.
Strategic Advisor
8Jon Wellinghoff
Chief Regulatory Officer (Voltus); CEO (GridPolicy); Partner (Stoel Rives)
Voltus / GridPolicy / Stoel Rives
The most influential living former regulator on distributed-energy and grid-edge market design. Uniquely placed to advise on regulatory risk in DER, VPP, and transmission investments.
Cheryl LaFleur
Chairman of the Board (ISO New England); Adjunct Senior Research Scholar (Columbia CGEP)
ISO-NE / Columbia Center on Global Energy Policy
Singular dual perspective: as ISO-NE Chair she shapes how a major U.S. RTO actually integrates clean-energy resources at scale, while as FERC veteran she knows what's actually possible regulatorily.
Richard (Rich) Glick
Founder & Principal
GQ New Energy Strategies
The most recent former FERC Chair, now running an active D.C. consulting practice. Current pulse on what FERC under Christie is and isn't likely to do.
M. Susan Hardwick
Board Director (Tetra Tech); Former President & CEO (American Water)
Tetra Tech / Previously American Water
Most recently sitting CEO of the largest U.S. publicly-traded water utility. Top-tier advisor for any water-utility-adjacent thesis.
Ernest (Ernie) Moniz
President & CEO (Energy Futures Initiative); Co-Chair of the Board (NTI); Board Advisor (Angeleno Group)
Energy Futures Initiative
Most credible cross-domain advisor in US energy: ex-Cabinet secretary, working academic, active board member, and policy architect. A call with Moniz contextualizes any clean-energy or grid thesis.
Hal Harvey
Founder Emeritus (Energy Innovation); Senior Fellow (Paulson Institute, U Chicago)
Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology
The dean of U.S. clean-energy policy philanthropy. Most-quoted independent voice on what energy policy interventions actually move emissions and costs.
Jigar Shah
Partner (Powerhouse Ventures); Senior Fellow (World Resources Institute); Co-Founder (Multiplier*); Advisory Chair (Deploy Action)
Powerhouse Ventures; multiple advisory roles
Most operationally-versed voice in U.S. climate finance: built one of the seminal clean-energy businesses, then ran the largest single block of clean-energy financing in U.S. history.
Christine Tezak
Senior Director, Research (Managing Director, retired from active coverage 2024)
ClearView Energy Partners
One of the most respected independent energy-policy analysts in Washington; her transition out of daily coverage means she's available for senior-investor conversations she wouldn't have had bandwidth for before.
Investment Banker
4Samuel Scroggins
Head of Renewables & Sustainable Infrastructure
Lazard
Leads the bank with the most U.S. power-M&A volume in 2024. The most informed banker on actual transaction comps.
Enrique Namey
Managing Director, Co-Head European Power Energy & Infrastructure
Lazard
The leading European renewables M&A banker. Essential coverage for any [Firm] European-asset thesis.
Tyler Miller
Partner; Global Co-Head, Power, Utilities & Infrastructure
Goldman Sachs
Top-of-market power-and-utilities banker at the most-prestigious U.S. bank. The first call for large-cap M&A in the sector.
Todd Giardinelli
Head of Natural Resources & Energy Transition (Investment Banking)
Bank of America
Just moved from Morgan Stanley to Bank of America to lead BofA's natural resources / energy transition push. Pivotal banker whose new mandate is being built right now.
Legal / Service Provider
5Eli Katz
Partner, Tax
Latham & Watkins
Top tax-equity lawyer at the firm that wrote the playbook. Definitive counsel for any clean-energy investment thesis with a tax-credit component.
Kelly Cataldo
Partner, Project Development & Finance
Latham & Watkins
Lead project-finance counsel on some of the largest U.S. renewable closings of 2024-2025; sees deal economics from the closing-document level.
Scott Cockerham
Partner, Tax
Latham & Watkins
D.C.-based tax counsel. Closer than NY-based partners to Treasury guidance and IRA implementation specifics.
Catherine (Cathy) McCarthy
Partner; Chair, Power & Renewables Regulatory Department
Bracewell
Top-ranked FERC-side power regulatory counsel; essential advisor on every transmission and large-scale renewable transaction with regulatory complexity.
Paul F. Wight
Partner; Lead, Energy Regulatory
DLA Piper
Pure-play FERC litigation and electric-power regulatory partner, now anchoring DLA Piper's D.C. energy practice; the lawyer for high-stakes regulatory disputes.
Peer Fund / Dealmaker
8Adebayo (Bayo) Ogunlesi
Founding Partner, Chairman & CEO; Senior MD, BlackRock
Global Infrastructure Partners (BlackRock)
The most consequential infrastructure capital allocator in the world post-BlackRock combination. Sets the gravitational center for the entire space.
Connor Teskey
CEO, Brookfield Asset Management
Brookfield
The single most credible energy-transition fund-manager voice globally; now running the entire $1T+ Brookfield Asset Management platform.
Sachin Shah
CEO, Brookfield Wealth Solutions
Brookfield
Connor Teskey's predecessor at Brookfield Renewable. Deep emerging-markets renewables knowledge plus a current view from Brookfield's wealth-channel capital formation.
Anthony Borreca
Senior Managing Director & Co-Head of Energy
Stonepeak
Leads Stonepeak's energy-transition deployment. Directly comparable peer with the most relevant deal velocity in the mid-market.
Benoit Allehaut
Managing Director, Global Infrastructure
KKR
Active KKR principal in North American renewables development partnerships. Useful pipeline-share or co-bid counterpart.
Tim Short
Founder & Managing Partner
Acadia Infrastructure Capital
Second-mover but rising principal on KKR's renewables team. Likely to be a more accessible counterpart than Bayo Ogunlesi or Raj Agrawal for active deal dialogue.
Sadek Wahba
Founder & Managing Partner
I Squared Capital
Mid-large-cap infrastructure GP with the most public conviction on U.S. grid build-out as a multi-decade investment thesis.
Andrew N. Pike
Partner, Co-Head Infrastructure & Power
Ares Management
Co-leads one of the most active infrastructure-and-power funds in the mid-large-cap market. Directly comparable peer.
Companies
Ranked by edge depthSunrun
U.S. leader in residential solar, battery storage, and energy-services subscriptions. Public on NASDAQ as RUN.
Latham & Watkins
Global law firm with the leading tax-equity and project-finance practice in U.S. renewable energy.
Brookfield Renewable Partners
One of the world's largest pure-play public renewable-power platforms; subsidiary of Brookfield Asset Management.
KKR
Global alternative investment firm; KKR Global Infrastructure has deployed ~$20B and ~12.5 GW into renewables over the past decade.
Lazard
Independent investment bank; #1 financial advisor for U.S. power-sector M&A in 2024 ($22.8B / 23 deals).
Origis Energy
U.S. solar developer with active tax-equity-financed pipeline across the Southeast.
Global Infrastructure Partners
World's largest dedicated infrastructure-fund manager (>$100B AUM); acquired by BlackRock in October 2024 for $12.5B.
Stonepeak
Alternative-investment firm focused on infrastructure and real assets, ~$84B AUM.
BlackRock
World's largest asset manager (~$11T AUM); acquired GIP in October 2024 to anchor its alternatives platform.
AES Corporation
U.S. global power generation and utility company; subject of $33.4B BlackRock/GIP + EQT take-private (2025).
Green Mountain Power
Vermont's largest electric utility; world's first B Corp utility under Mary Powell's leadership (2008–2019).
Fairtide
Industrial-decarbonization investment firm founded by Nat Kreamer; portfolio includes AMP Robotics, Highland Electric Fleets, Formic Technologies, Charge Robotics, Synop.ai.
Apex Clean Energy
Independent U.S. renewable-energy developer with utility-scale wind and solar pipeline.
rPlus Energies
Western-U.S. renewable-energy developer; closed $650M Blacks Creek Energy Center project financing (2024).
Energy Capital Partners
Energy-focused private-equity firm; sold 50% stake in Terra-Gen to Masdar in 2024 (Lazard advised).
Masdar
UAE state-backed renewable-energy developer; acquired 50% of Terra-Gen from Energy Capital Partners (Lazard advised, 2024).
Voltus
U.S. distributed-energy-resource (DER) aggregator and virtual power plant (VPP) operator; enrolls commercial and industrial loads into wholesale markets.
GQ New Energy Strategies
Energy regulatory and policy consulting firm founded May 2023 by former FERC Chair Rich Glick and former FERC chief of staff Pamela Quinlan.
ISO New England
Independent system operator (RTO) for the New England wholesale electricity market.
Inlyte Energy
Long-duration energy-storage company commercializing iron-sodium battery technology for grid applications.
Crossover Energy Partners
Clean-energy development platform partnered with KKR (announced 2024) to accelerate U.S. project development.
GE Vernova
Pure-play global power and grid equipment, software, and services company; NYSE-listed since 2024 spin-off from General Electric.
AutoGrid
VPP / DERMS software platform; acquired by Schneider Electric in May 2022. Deployed in 20+ countries managing 8+ GW of VPP capacity. Guidehouse-ranked #1 globally.
Macquarie Asset Management
World's largest infrastructure-asset manager and a major investor in renewable energy, transport, telecom, and water.
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I Squared Capital
Miami-based global infrastructure private-equity firm with $50B+ AUM. Founded 2012 by former Morgan Stanley Infrastructure executives.
Ares Management
Global alternative-investment manager; Ares Infrastructure & Power is one of the most active U.S. mid-large-cap funds in renewables and grid services.
SB Energy
SoftBank Group's U.S. renewables platform; received $600M strategic equity investment from Ares Management (2022).
Wright & Talisman
D.C. boutique law firm devoted exclusively to energy law and FERC-regulated industries for 70+ years; particularly noted for representing RTOs at FERC.
Tetra Tech
Global engineering and consulting firm focused on water, environment, sustainable infrastructure, and energy projects. NASDAQ: TTEK.
Energy Futures Initiative
Nonprofit energy-policy research and convening organization founded by Ernest Moniz in 2017.
Bracewell
U.S. law firm with one of the leading FERC and energy regulatory practices, particularly in transmission, power generation, and renewables.
DLA Piper
Global law firm; energy regulatory practice anchored in D.C. with new energy regulatory leader Paul Wight (2024).
Goldman Sachs
Global investment bank; Power, Utilities & Infrastructure franchise serves the largest U.S. utility and infrastructure M&A flow.
Bank of America
Global bank; Natural Resources & Energy Transition group built out under Todd Giardinelli (2025) as a strategic priority.
Morgan Stanley
Global investment bank with a long-tenured Power, Utilities & Renewables franchise; recently rebuilding after Todd Giardinelli's departure to BofA.
Citigroup
Global bank; Power, Utilities & Renewables franchise (Tyler Miller's former home) is now in re-build after his departure to Goldman.
Energy Innovation: Policy and Technology
Independent energy and environmental policy research firm; publisher of the U.S. Energy Policy Simulator used by federal and state policymakers.
Powerhouse Ventures
Climate-tech venture capital firm focused on the energy transition.
U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office
U.S. federal program that provides loans and loan guarantees to advanced energy projects. Under the IRA, the LPO was granted $400B+ in loan authority.
ClearView Energy Partners
Washington, D.C.-based independent research firm specializing in U.S. energy policy and electricity-markets analysis.