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Distributed US solar asset owner and operator Spruce Power has hired Richard DiMatteo as senior vice president, head of Spruce Pro.
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Brazilian renewables developer 2W Ecobank has appointed Ricardo Levy as chief executive officer.
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Brazilian utility Copel has appointed Felipe Gutterres as chief financial and investor relations officer.
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Timo Hellwig has taken over as the head of KfW IPEX-Bank North America and will lead project financing transactions in the US and Canada.
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Apollo Infrastructure-backed Apterra has hired Ashish Gupta as managing director of its core infrastructure business, effective immediately.
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Law firm Barclay Damon has opened a power and energy construction practice area following a merger with Washington DC–based Shapiro, Lifschitz & Schram (SLS).
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Voltera, a developer, owner, and operator of charging infrastructure for EV fleets, has hired Sylvia Hendron as the company’s first chief development officer.
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American Electric Power (AEP) has hired William Fehrman as president and chief executive, effective 1 August (2024).
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Norway’s NorSun is investing $620 million in a 5GW solar manufacturing facility in Oklahoma, its first US-based factory.
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Kimmeridge subsidiary Kimmeridge Texas Gas has closed on its follow-on control investment in Commonwealth LNG and hired David Lawler as chief executive to lead the venture.
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8 Rivers Capital, the decarbonisation technology developer, has hired Asheley Kinsey as the company’s chief financial officer.
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The Pacific Northwest Hydrogen Association (PNWH2) has hired Chris Green as its first president.
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The UK's Octopus Energy Group has continued to push into North America with the hire of Nick Chaset as executive vice president.
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Charles River Associates, the financial and management consultants, has expanded its US energy practice by hiring Christine Oumansour as vice president.
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Tax advisory firm Leo Berwick has hired Colin Schmidt as of the firm's infrastructure, renewables, and energy transition financial group.
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Create Energy and RECOM Technologies have formed a joint venture to develop a 5GW solar PV manufacturing plant in Tennessee.
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Baker Donelson has hired Stephen Luttrell in the firm’s corporate group, based in Baltimore, Maryland.
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PEI Global Partners has hired Eric Berlinger, the former head of US renewables and energy transition at RBC Capital Markets, as the managing director of its investment banking team in New York.
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Con Edison has appointed former Evergy executive Kirkland Andrews as CFO as Robert Hoglund transitions toward retirement.
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Solaris Energy has appointed Nick Perugini as chief executive while current CEO, Alex Blackmer, will become president.
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Sunnova Energy International has hired Eric Williams as executive vice president, chief financial officer.
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The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) has named 3 regional heads to cover Europe and North America for its sustainable energies team.
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Brazilian utility Copel has hired Rodolfo Lima to head its energy trading and commercialization business.
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Goldman Sachs has hired a vice president for its energy tax investing group in New York City.
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Canadian power provider Hydro One has hired Harry Taylor as executive vice president and chief financial and regulatory officer, effective 10 June (2024).
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The investment team behind the Aegon Climate Capital strategy at Aegon Asset Management has launched CurvePoint Capital, an independent firm dedicated to advancing climate finance.
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EDPR NA DG's head of capital markets, Sam Egendorf, has left his role at the firm.
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Real assets investment management firm Versus Capital Advisors has hired Alicia Chen as director of investments.
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Sunrock Distributed Generation, a commercial solar and distributed generation developer and asset manager, has hired Alan Robertson as head of development.
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Renewables development and repowering company PivotGen has named former GE executive Dennis Ford as its senior vice president (VP) of operations.
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Energy storage company Peak Energy will see its co-founder Liam O'Connor take on the chief operating officer (COO) role.
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Adapture Renewables has made several additions to its team, including Donald Brown as general counsel.
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Advantage Capital has hired Steven Lichtin as chief executive and managing director of Advantage Capital Renewables.
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Battery storage provider Powin has hired Kirk Fleischhauer as its chief operating officer.
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MUFG has hired the former project finance director of syndications at Crédit Agricole CIB, PFR has learned.
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Investment and asset management firm Exus Management Partners has hired former Crédit Agricole CIB director as head of project finance for North America.
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Hydropower redeveloper Relevate Power has added 2 executives to its leadership team with Ian Finlay joining as CFO and Antonio Zarrella as VP of engineering and operations.
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Carey International Group (CIG) has hired Christopher Kane as its chief investment officer as the company grows its US renewables and real estate portfolio.
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Former Ørsted executives have merged their independent development companies, Cold Water Renewables and Greenbelt Renewable Energy, to create a utility-scale wind, solar, and storage company.
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Atlas Energy Solutions has appointed Blake McCarthy as its chief financial officer, effective 13 May 2024, PFR has learned.
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Cemvita green hydrogen spin-out Gold H2 has hired former NextEra executive Prabhdeep Singh Sekhon as its chief executive.
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Independent power producer Atlas Renewable Energy has hired Carlos Freitas as chief financial officer, based in Miami, US.
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Great Bay Renewables has appointed Peter Leahey as its chief financial officer and Josh Levine as chief commercial officer.
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Clean power developer Vesper Energy has appointed co-founders Mark Rostafin and Juan Suarez as co-chief executive officers.
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Tax credit transfer platform Crux Climate has secured a partnership with the American Clean Power Association (ACP), connecting more than 800 CPA members to its platform.
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Troutman Pepper has hired a renewable energy partner to its Capital Projects and Infrastructure Practice at its Los Angeles office.
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Carlyle-backed solar and storage developer Copia Power has hired the former Arevon head of project finance as its managing director and head of capital markets.
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Former Fengate Asset Management director Vince Castranovo has been hired by Calpine as vice president, corporate development.
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Enel has confirmed Giuseppe Turchiarelli as chief executive for its Chilean operations, effective 1 May 2024.
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Colorado-based Humble Midstream II Partners has hired Brian Newmarch and John Shefchik as CFO and VP, engineering and construction, respectively.
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Houston-based independent power producer WattBridge Energy has hired Steven Sneed as commercial director.
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Altus Power has named Gregg Felton as sole chief executive after Lars Norell resigned as co-CEO and director.
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The Nordex Group and has appointed Manav Sharma as chief executive, North America to lead the wind turbine maker’s expansion in the US.
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Ocean Power Technologies’ corporate controller, treasurer, and principal accounting officer, Joseph DiPietro, has left the company, PFR has learned.
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Alternus Clean Energy CFO, Joseph Duey, has resigned effective 30 April 2024, PFR has learned.
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Sunpower has closed business units and made layoffs as part of its efforts to secure long-term financial sustainability amid restructuring and refinancing initiatives.
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Clifford Chance has hired Joclynn Marsh as counsel in its energy and oil and gas related infrastructure practice.
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BP has made significant shifts in its leadership structure as its head of natural gas and low carbon energy, Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath, steps down.
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ForeFront Power, a commercial and industrial solar energy and storage developer, has hired Ruben Fontes as chief executive.
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Battery storage developer Spearmint Energy has hired four senior executives to its project finance, capital markets, regulatory affairs, and commercial operations teams.
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Lightshift Energy, a utility-scale energy storage developer, has hired Robert Greskowiak as chief commercial officer.
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US-based manager Galway Sustainable Capital has made 4 hires across its business following investments from Macquarie Asset Management (MAM) and Aware Super.
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YPF Luz, the power generation arm of oil and gas company YPF, has appointed Pedro Kearney as chief financing officer, based in Buenos Aires.
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Arevon Energy has appointed the former co-president of Starwood Infrastructure Finance as its chief investment officer, based in New York.
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Renewable infrastructure firm Schroders Capital has hired Jason Kezelman and Loren Sageser as head of US sales and senior product strategist in its private debt and credit alternatives (PDCA) team, based in California.
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FuelCell Energy executive vice president and COO Michael Lisowski has resigned from his position, effective immediately, PFR has found.
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Latham & Watkins has hired Daniel Sinaiko as a partner in the firm’s project development & finance practice and the energy & infrastructure industry group, based in Los Angeles, California.
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Colombian oil company Ecopetrol has made 3 changes to its senior management team.
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Renewable energy infrastructure fund manager Excelsior Energy Capital has launched Lydian Energy, an independent power producer (IPP) specialising in the development, construction, and operation of utility-scale solar and battery energy storage projects in North America.
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Grid-scale battery company Energy Vault has selected Michael Beer as its chief financial officer.
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Tri-State Generation will replace retiring chief operating officer (COO) Billy Ingold with 2 internal promotions, PFR has learned.
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TortoiseEcoFin has hired Courtney Gengler as the chief executive of Tortoise's closed-end funds effective 1 April, 2024, PFR has learned.
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Law firm Akin has hired Ian Goldberg, a former Hunton Andrews Kurth energy transactions lawyer, as a partner at its Houston, Texas, office.
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Renewables focused-asset manager Greenbacker Capital Management (GCM) has expanded its team with the hire of Evan Sherman as head of real estate acquisitions.
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Maxeon Solar Technologies US has appointed Vikas Desai as its chief financial officer in the San Jose, California office.
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Renewable energy and decarbonisation platform Origis Energy has promoted Vikas Anand to chief executive.
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Clean power developer Leeward Renewable Energy (LRE) has appointed Nate Graham as chief technology officer.
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Northland Power has begun the search for a chief executive with incumbent, Mike Crawley, set to leave the firm in September.
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Ørsted continues leadership changes after suffering significant impairments in 2023 from US offshore wind projects with the hire of Rasmus Errboe as deputy chief executive officer and chief commercial officer.
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Baker Botts has hired a partner to join its energy, projects, and transactions practice of the firm’s global projects department.
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King & Spalding has hired an energy-focused tax partner for its New York-based corporate practice group.
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Duke Energy has made a series of executive leadership changes as executive president and chief commercial officer Steve Young retires.
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Spanish renewable developer Solarpack has appointed José Luis García Pérez as chief executive for Latin America, based in Santiago, Chile.
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Residential solar technology and energy business SunPower has hired Tony Garzolini as executive vice president and chief revenue officer (CRO).
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Microgrid and microturbine manufacturer Capstone Green Energy Holdings has hired Vince Canino as its president and chief executive.
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Renewable real estate investment fund SolaREIT has hired 3 senior vice presidents to its corporate and business development teams amid company expansion.
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WEC Energy Group has hired the president and chief operating officer of Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO), Michael Hooper as president of WEC’s We Energies and Wisconsin Public Service divisions effective 1 April, 2024.
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Law firm Sheppard, Mullin, Richter, & Hampton has hired tax attorney Julie Marion to the energy, infrastructure, and project finance team as partner in Chicago.
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EnCap Energy Transition Fund (ETF) has launched Bildmore, a platform company that invests in minority tax equity stakes in solar, battery storage, and energy transmission projects.
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Miami-based financial advisory firm Atlantico Capital Partners has hired Juan Francisco Toro as managing director and Juan Pablo Hernández as vice president of its Mexico City office.
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The former co-founder and chief financial officer of OKRA Finance has been appointed as the head of transactions and finance at renewable energy tax credit marketplace Reunion.
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Houston-based Royd Warren has been appointed as chief operations officer at US-based power plant owner and operator IHI Power Services Corporation (IPSC). He will assume the post on 25 March (2024).
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Energy and commodities-focused lawyer Don Macbean has joined Willkie Farr & Gallagher as a partner in the firm's corporate and financial services department based in New York.
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Community solar and storage developer REC Solar has hired the former chief operating officer of Distributed Solar Development (DSD) as chief executive.
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Elda River Capital Management, a real assets-focused investment firm, has spun off from private equity fund Magnetar Capital with $1.5 billion in assets under its management.
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Baker Botts has hired a partner for the energy, projects, and transactions team of the law firm's global projects department in the Washington, DC, office.
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Renewable fuels company Global Clean Energy founder Richard Palmer will retire from his position as the company’s chief executive.
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Enel Chile has appointed Giuseppe Turchiarelli as interim chief executive following the resignation of Fabrizio Barderi, effective 1 March 2024.
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Utility company Exelon has promoted Jessica Hart to senior vice president and chief investment officer after incumbent Doug Brown retires after 15 years in the role.
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Investment bank Moelis & Company has hired Stephen Trauber, formerly Citi's global head of energy transition, as chairman and global head of its energy and energy transition team.
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Vertically integrated distributed energy (DG) platform and financing provider Scale Microgrids has selected Nuno Gonçalves as its new chief financial officer.
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Mercedes-Benz HPC North America has hired several executives in a push to create a network of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations across the country.
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Residential solar technology and energy services provider SunPower Corp’s chief executive officer (CEO) Peter Faricy has left the company, effective 26 February 2024.
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PJM Interconnection has appointed Eversource Energy's senior vice president of engineering as its executive VP of operations.
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Sunrock Distributed Generation, a commercial solar and DG developer and asset manager, has hired Sunlight Financial co-founder Wilson Chang as its chief executive officer.
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North American energy and water industries consultancy firm Concentric Energy Advisors has added Mark Karl as an executive advisor.
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Mitsubishi Power Americas' battery energy storage systems (BESS) division has been spun into a standalone business — Prevalon Energy.
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Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added Jason Selfe to its power & utilities team in a business development role.
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Independent power producer (IPP) Urban Grid has hired Eivind Osterhus as chief financial officer and Erica Engle as chief commercial officer.
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Law firm Skadden has rehired the former commissioner, chairman and general counsel of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC).
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Developer and grid-scale energy storage operator Jupiter Power has hired former Invenergy executive Jesse Campbell as its chief financial officer (CFO).
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New Energy Equity, a solar developer subsidiary of Allete, has appointed Jackie Chambers as chief investment officer.
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Industrial power company One Energy Enterprises has appointed Tom Russell as its chief financial officer (CFO) ahead of its New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) listing.
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Infrastructure investment manager Homecoming Capital has hired former AB CarVal investor Shaya Greenberger as vice president.
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Renewables company BrightNight has made 2 senior-level appointments to its asset management and construction teams.
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Clifford Chance has hired 2 US energy and infrastructure partners, Ty'Meka Reeves-Sobers and Marcia Hook, to join the law firm's Houston and Washington, DC offices, respectively.
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Standalone energy storage systems developer, owner and operator GlidePath Power Solutions (GlidePath) has hired former NextEra executive Vijay Singh as its chief commercial officer.
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Independent power producer and asset manager Greenbacker has continued to add to its leadership team with appointment of Christopher Smith as chief financial officer and Carl Weatherley-White as head of capital markets.
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NET Power has hired former Nikola Motor Company managing director Brian Rappaport as its head of origination, PFR has learned.
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Enchanted Rock, a microgrids developer, has appointed Paul Froutan as its chief operating officer (COO).
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Energetic Capital has hired Steven Varady as senior vice president in the company's tax and transactional practice, PFR has learned.
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Law firm Akerman has announced the formation of 3 energy and infrastructure sub-practices.
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Giora Salita has joined the executive team of TPG-backed global renewable energy platform Matrix Renewables as chief operating officer based in Miami, Florida.
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Quantum Capital Group has partnered with Humble Midstream II to fund the company’s continuing development and operation of US-based energy infrastructure projects.
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JP Morgan-backed independent power producer Onward Energy has hired the former chief executive of the California Independent System Operator (CAISO) to replace president and CEO, Steve Doyon, who has retired.
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Emre Erkovan has been appointed as CIBC Capital Market’s global investment banking director, overseeing energy, infrastructure and transition sectors.
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Nuclear company Westinghouse has hired former vice president of strategy and innovation at Kairos Power, Lou Martinez Sancho, as its chief technology officer.
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Enel Chile’s chief executive officer Fabrizio Barderi has resigned from his position, officially leaving the company on 29 February 2024.
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Michael Peist, managing director of project and structured finance in Investec's power and infrastructure team has stepped down, PFR has learned.
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Utility-scale solar developer Volt Energy Utility has appointed Jean Nelson-Houpert as chief financial officer (CFO).
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Commercial energy developer Green Lantern Solar has named Dave Carpenter as vice president of development.
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Solar real estate investment fund SolaREIT has launched a battery energy storage systems (BESS) lending platform, to be led by recently hired senior vice president of business development, Nicole Wolf.
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Community solar provider Nexamp has named its Chicago, Illinois office as its second national headquarters, alongside its established headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts.
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Renewable developer Atlas Renewable Energy has appointed Iván Jara Carrasco chief operating officer (COO).
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RWE Clean Energy has promoted Andrew Flanagan, the company's former chief development officer, to chief executive.
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Crowell & Moring has hired Ruta Kalvaitis Skučas as partner in the law firm's environment, energy, and natural resources practice group.
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King & Spalding has hired energy and construction lawyer, Terra Mareck Cothran, to become a partner at its Houston office.
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Morgan Stanely-backed SolMicroGrid, a microgrid company focused on commercial and industrial (C&I) end markets, has hired a former Safari Energy executive as its chief executive.
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Renewable developer EnfraGen has established its regional headquarters for Central America in Panama City, Panama.
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Clifford Chance announced today, 16 January 2024, the hiring of counsel Joshua Bernard to its corporate M&A practice in Houston.
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Financial services firm Barclays has launched a new Energy Transition Group in its corporate and investment bank, focusing on renewable and energy transition deals.
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Macquarie-backed Galehead Development has hired Dru Steubing, the former vice president of development at Apex Energy, as chief development officer.
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Cubico Sustainable Investments has hired Ramon Salcedo as head of origination and execution for Latin America, based in Mexico City.
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Renewables company BayWa r.e. has appointed the former executive vice president of Soligent, Ken Lima, as its new chief executive officer of the company's US solar distribution business.
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Solar development company TurningPoint Energy has announced the appointment of Salar Naini as president, as former president Jared Schoch moves into a chairman role.
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Investment firm ArcLight Capital Partners has formed a new division to oversee the commercial and operational activities of ArcLight's power infrastructure funds.
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Brazilian renewable developer Echoenergia has appointed Liu Aquino as chief executive, based in Sao Paulo.
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Spire has named Scott Doyle its executive vice president and chief operating officer, effective January 15, 2024.
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Point-of-sale finance firm Sunlight Financial has named current chief operating officer (COO) Timothy Parsons as the company’s new chief executive.
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Canadian-based carbon capture business Svante Technologies (Svante) has appointed Justine Fisher as its new chief financial officer (CFO).
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Community-solar and storage developer REC Solar has appointed former ForeFront Power chief executive as its executive chairman.
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Canadian power provider Hydro One will commence an internal and external search this summer for a chief financial and regulatory officer as incumbent Chris Lopez leaves June 30, 2024.
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Allianz Capital Partners' former head of renewables, Americas, has been hired by Greenbacker Capital as the fund manager's head of infrastructure.
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Former Riverstone Credit Partners founders have launched energy credit investment manager Breakwall Capital.
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Goldman Sachs has promoted Emily Hashimoto to managing director of the infrastructure investment banking team in New York City.
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Southwest Gas Holdings has appointed William “Bill” Fehrman as president and chief executive of Centuri Group, effective January 12, 2024.
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Energy storage business Convergent Energy and Power has appointed Donald Jenkins as its new chief operating officer (COO).
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Transaction risk insurance broking and advisory firm Birch Risk Advisors has taken on former NovaSource Power Services chief executive officer Troy Lauterbach as renewable energy advisor.
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BP-funded Advanced Ionics is growing its executive team with two green hydrogen professionals as the company plans its generation pilot programs launch for next year.
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Renewables and utility project developer Invenergy has opened a regional office in Montreal, becoming the company’s Quebec-based hub for Eastern Canada.
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Generate Capital has hired William Sonneborn as the firm’s new president, bringing his several decades of asset investment experience to the company.
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Mona Dajani has joined Baker Botts as a partner in the law firm's global projects department in New York.
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Battery storage developer Key Capture Energy (KCE) has hired former EDP Renewables executive Brian Hayes the company’s chief executive, effective January 8, 2024.
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Andrea Lucan has joined Sidley Austin’s Los Angeles office as a partner in the firm’s energy, transportation, and infrastructure group.
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Waste management and renewable fuel developer Dynamic Renewables has hired the former president of renewable natural gas (RNG) at Kinder Morgan as its chief executive.
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US-based utility-scale solar and battery storage developer Mission Clean Energy has hired John Richardson as vice president of finance.
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BW Solar has sold two battery energy storage (BESS) projects with a combined capacity of 525MW to renewable energy storage company Spearmint Energy.
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Deloitte's former ESG Tax Leader has joined RBC Capital Markets as a managing director.
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US-based lithium-ion battery developer and energy storage systems manufacturer KORE Power (KORE), has named industry veteran Michael Canada as its chief operating officer.
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The former chief executive of FirstLight Power, Alicia Barton, will join Vineyard Offshore as chief executive on January 1, 2024.
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Rubicon Capital Advisors has hired Justin Snyder as senior director in its New York office where he will focus on advisory opportunities across the North American renewable energy, energy transition and infrastructure sectors.
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Calibrant Energy, a joint venture established in 2020 between Siemens and Macquarie, has continued to add to its headcount with the hiring of Sean Rheuben as managing director, strategic origination with business development.
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Spanish law firm Cuatrecasas has hired Michel Diban to join its M&A and corporate practice in the Santiago, Chile office.
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Global law firm Vinson & Elkins has added a number of lawyers with energy expertise to its partnership and promoted others to counsel, effective January 1, 2024.
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Former DLA Piper US head of energy and natural resources Vanessa Richelle Wilson has joined international law firm Akin’s Washington, DC. office as a partner in the projects and energy transition team.
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Linklaters has hired Michael Rodgers – formerly of White & Case – as partner in its energy & infrastructure and tax practices in Washington, DC.
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Boston-based Álvaro Ortega has joined innovative floating offshore wind (FLOW) company Gazelle Wind Power as chief financial officer.
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Paul Daily, president and chief executive of Southwest Gas subsidiary Centuri Group, will step down from his position when the utility business appoints a successor.
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Enel has appointed Antônio Scala as chief executive of the Brazilian branch, based in São Paulo, Brazil.
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Law firm Greenberg Traurig has added to its energy & natural resources practice in the US with the hire of a tax partner.
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Microgrid and microturbine manufacturer Capstone Green Energy Corporation hires Emer Higgins as its vice president of operations.
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Power distribution business FirstEnergy has appointed two new senior executives as part of the company’s initiative to expand its presence as an electric utility.
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Rabobank has expanded its banking team and made analyst hires dedicated to energy transition in the US.
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has launched a platform for the development and realization of renewable projects in Canada, Horizon New Energy, as part of the firm's expansion into the Canadian market.
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US-based power plant owner and operator IHI Power Services Corporation (IPSC) has taken on Glenn McCombs as the company’s chief development officer, effective immediately.
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Independent power producer NRG’s president and chief executive officer Mauricio Gutierrez has departed the company and resigned from its board, leaving Lawrence Coben in the role for the interim.
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International professional services firm Alvarez & Marsal has taken on former Chevron executive Jay Johnson as senior advisor to its energy practice.
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Clean power producer, developer, and energy storage company, FirstLight, has promoted current COO, Justin Trudell, to chief executive, effective December 1, 2023.
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Ørsted's chief financial officer and chief operating officer have left after the company announced $5 billion in impairments, canceling its 2.3GW Ocean Wind 1 and 2 offshore wind farms off New Jersey, and pulling out of a consortium due to bid on offshore wind projects in Norway.
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Quantum Capital Group, the energy-focused private equity firm, has hired David Altshuler partner and co-head of client solutions.
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Cubico Sustainable Investments has appointed Andrew Coffield as head of legal, US.
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Kenneth Ditzel has joined global consulting firm Berkeley Research Group’s (BRG) energy & climate team as a managing partner.
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HSBC has named Paul Snow as head of renewables in the Americas in the real assets finance team, promoting him from a director role.
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Finance advisory and investment banking firm Marathon Capital has launched an equity research group with Alex Kania as its lead analyst and Chandni Chellappa as the team’s vice president.
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Jean Francois Roberge has joined Abu Dhabi fund Mubadala as head of partnerships for the Infrastructure Americas division.
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Global financing group Macquarie has hired a former CohnReznick director as the senior vice president in the Infrastructure Advisory, Americas practice.
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International law practice Milbank has selected Jenna McGrath as a partner for the firm’s Project, Energy and Infrastructure Finance Group in the Washington, D.C. office.
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French bank Crédit Agricole has promoted one of its managing directors to the position of head of project finance for Latin America.
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US maritime and logistics company Crowley has hired a former GE Offshore Wind executive as vice president of business development for its Wind Services group.
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Spanish developer Grenergy has appointed Fabian Videla as chief financial officer for the Americas based in Santiago, Chile.
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Texas-based utility CenterPoint Energy has appointed Jason Wells to chief executive and board member.
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Sid Perkins, founder of ION Energy, and Ike Perkins, former Mercuria Energy portfolio manager, have jointly launched their traditional, renewable, and transitional energy market commodity brokerage, Snapper Creek Energy.
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Private investment giant Ardian has opened an office in Montréal, its first in Canada and third in North America.
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DIF Capital Partners has appointed Lorraine Becker as the company’s new head of ESG.
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Concentric Energy Advisors, a management consulting and financial advisory firm for the North American energy and water industries, is making changes to its c-suite.
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Commercial energy developer Green Lantern Solar has hired a director of real estate and director of development as it grows its team.
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Renewable natural gas producer OPAL Fuels has appointed Scott Contino as interim chief financial officer after Ann Anthony resigned from the role.
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Clifford Chance has hired corporate M&A partner Cephas Sekhar and counsel Kyle Kreshover to its recently opened Houston office.
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The New York Power Authority (NYPA) has created a senior leadership role to develop, own, and operate renewable energy-generating projects in the state.
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Skyline Renewables has hired Todd Wynn as chief executive, replacing interim CEO Tim Menzie.
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Battery storage developer Spearmint Energy has hired Yelena Kuznetsova as the director of sustainability and ESG.
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Braya Renewable Fuels has named former Delek executive, Todd O'Malley, as chief executive.
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Bluestar Energy Capital, the renewable energy investment platform founded last year (2022) by the former CEO of Ørsted Onshore, has hired Neil O’Donovan as president and COO.
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Greenbacker Capital Management has hired Rahul Bhalodia as the managing director of the Greenbacker development opportunity (GDEV) strategy. Bhalodia will lead origination, execution, investment management, and capital raising for his group.
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PJM Solar developer Geenex Solar has appointed Emily Williams as chief executive, succeeding Georg Veit, who will become the company's chairman.
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National Renewable Solutions (NRS) has hired Bill Whitlock to take over as chief executive as Patrick Pelstring begins retirement.
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Global infrastructure investment manager Wren House has appointed Anne McEntee as managing director in its New York asset management team.
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Dominion Energy is set to add 772MW of solar generation in Virginia through six Dominion-owned or acquired solar farms and 13 power purchase agreements (PPAs) with independently owned projects.
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SolaREIT, a battery storage and solar real estate investment fund, has hired Nicole Wolf as senior vice president of business development. The hire supports the company's expansion of its battery storage real estate financing projects.
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Xcel Energy has continued to make changes at the top, naming a new group president of utilities and chief customer officer.
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Calibrant Energy, a joint venture established in 2020 between Siemens and Macquarie, has hired Matt Walz as its first chief executive.
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Energy giant American Electric Power has appointed Charles Zebula as its executive vice president and chief financial officer, effective immediately.
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International law firm Willkie Farr & Gallagher has hired 3 green energy lawyers to join its Los Angeles and New York offices as partners. The three attorneys, Eric Pogue, Samantha Leavitt, and Amanda Rosenberg, previously served as partners at Mayer Brown.
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Atlas Renewable Energy has promoted Luis Pita as chief commercial officer, based out of Miami.
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ArcLight Capital Partners has appointed Curt Morgan to a senior adviser role. Morgan will work to find new investment opportunities for ArcLight and oversee the firm's portfolio companies.
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Distributed energy company Scale Microgrids has hired Neil Maguire as its chief technology officer.
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Eversource Energy has hired Paul Chodak as executive vice president and chief operating officer, effective November 13, 2023.
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Equinor has hired former operations and maintenance executive at Vestas Wind Systems, Samuel Byrne.
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Distributed energy company Correlate Energy has appointed Johan Themaat as the vice president of finance.
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Hawaiian Electric has appointed Paul Ito as interim CFO to replace the retiring Tayne Sekimura as succession planning was upended in the wake of the August 8 deadly wildfires on Maui.
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Venture capital and private equity firm Voyager Interests has hired Robert Trainer as a partner. The company focuses on investments in the energy services and equipment (ES&E) sector.
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Moelis & Company has appointed Philip Holder as the new managing director of the investment bank's power and utilities unit.
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BC Utilities Commission, the regulator of British Columbia’s public energy utilities, has named Mark Jaccard as its chair and chief executive.
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Power management company Eaton has made a $150 million investment in electrical power distribution manufacturing, bolstering its manufacturing presence in North America.
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Renewable energy development and financing company Empower Energies has appointed Patrick Corr to the role of chief operating officer (COO).
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Moelis & Company has appointed Jugjeev Duggal as managing director of the firm's newly launched clean technology unit.
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Utility scale independent power producer Onward Energy has named Patrick Welch as its chief financial officer.
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Tara Young, former deputy general counsel at Plus Power, has joined Spearmint Energy as its general counsel, effective immediately.
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The head of project finance at EDPR North America Distributed Generation has left the firm to launch a consulting business. Christopher Rittenhouse has worked in role since 2018 and is now consulting under Gates Rittenhouse LLC.
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Investment bank Moelis & Company has formed a clean technology group and hired former Citi banker Arash Nazhad as a managing director in Houston to co-lead the new unit.
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Former Barclays investment bankers Robyn Underwood and Jason Kivett have joined the Pickering Energy Partners’ (PEP) investment banking practice to lead a newly formed team.
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GreenTechnologies has launched a renewable natural gas (RNG) production subsidiary GreenEdge Renewables.
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Aethon Energy, an onshore energy focused investment firm, has made a string of senior hires.
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Senior Guggenheim Securities bankers have transitioned to Jefferies’ new energy transition banking team.
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Former Whitehall & Company vice president Ted Barrett has founded Carnyx Holdings, a New York-based infrastructure investment fund.
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Pillsbury Winthrop has appointed tax attorney Don Lonczak as a partner in its global energy transition team, based in its Washington DC office.
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The latest banker to hand in his notice at the New York real assets and structured finance team of HSBC is causing a stir as a leading figure from the bank flown in to steady the ship.
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AC Power, a brownfield solar developer, has hired Christy Searl, former Leyline Renewable Capital managing director, as chief revenue officer.
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Greenbacker Capital Management (GCM) has launched its fourth sustainability driven investment strategy, focusing on acquiring commercial and residential property wherever the company might reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce energy use intensity, and add additional renewable power sources.
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Milbank has promoted Jaime Ramirez to co-head the firm’s Latin America practice, based out of New York.
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International battery developer Powin Energy has hired Jeff Waters, former chief executive of Maxeon Solar Technologies, as CEO, replacing Geoffrey Brown.
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Wilson Ferreira Junior has resigned from his position as chief executive of Eletrobras after a year in the role.
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Origis Energy has appointed Vikas Anand as chief operating officer and chief financial officer.
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Clean energy provider Onyx Renewable Partners has appointed Jamie Weber as senior vice president of finance.
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NuScale Power Corporation, a small, modular nuclear reactor technology provider, as hired Robert Ramsey Hamady as chief financial officer and promoted Clayton Scott as chief commercial officer in a wave of leadership changes. The new hires will advance the manufacturing and development phase of its VOYGR small, modular reactor power plants.
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A search has commenced for the next Lightsource BP Americas chief executive, PFR has learned.
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Arevon Energy has named former Lightsource BP Americas boss, Kevin Smith, as its chief executive.
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GridStor, Portland, Oregon-based a battery storage system developer and operator, has appointed Frank Burkhartsmeyer as the company's chief financial officer.
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The New York-based ANZ Bank power and infrastructure team has been boosted by 2 recent arrivals, 1 of whom started last week.
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ArcLight Capital Partners has appointed Gerry Anderson, former DTE Energy chairman and chief executive, to senior advisor and ArcLight Power Infrastructure board member. Anderson will guide the search to identify new investment opportunities for ArcLight across the renewables utility, and CCS sectors.
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North America-focused fund manager Energy Power Partners’ senior executive, Suresh Vasan, has left the firm to join the Department of Energy’s Loan Program Office (LPO) as senior investment advisor.
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Kimmeridge, an energy-focused investment firm, has hired Max Warburton to lead a renewable energy and carbon solutions platform as senior managing director.
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Energix Renewables will procure 5GW of solar modules from First Solar. The modules will power solar projects in Israel, Poland, and the US, delivered to the Energix sites between 2026 and 2030.
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CPower Energy named Michael Smith as chief executive following the retirement of former company leader John Horton.
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Green hydrogen producer, Ohmium International, has teamed up with seawater treatment business, Aquastill, to use desalinated seawater as an input for green hydrogen production.
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Canadian Solar is hiring in its c-suite after the retirement of Jianyi Zhang as chief legal officer, chief compliance officer, and corporate secretary after seven years with the company.
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The International Finance Corporation has appointed Manuela Adl as senior country manager for Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay.
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RWE has announced Amanda Lefton, former tenured director of the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), as the vice president of development, East, a position that will see Lefton in the driver’s seat of RWE’s offshore development on the east coast of the US.
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Generate Capital has added to its sustainable infrastructure investment team. Christian Chong, previously a senior associate at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), is joining as a sustainable infrastructure senior analyst.
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London-headquartered DLA Piper has hired an energy partner to its finance group in Seattle. Lindsay MacLeod joins DLA Piper from Amazon, where she served as senior corporate counsel for sustainability for almost three years.
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Aker Carbon Capture has named Egil Fagerland as its new acting chief executive officer effective July 11, 2023.
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AES has appointed Rogério Pereira Jorge as chief executive of the company’s Brazilian operations, based in São Paulo.
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NuScale Power Corporation, a provider of small modular reactor (SMR) nuclear technology, has named Carl Fisher as its chief operating officer starting July 24, 2023. Fisher will head the operations engineering, project management, quality assurance, information technology, and regulatory affairs functions.
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Law firm Akin has hired Sam Guthrie as a tax partner in its Washington DC office to focus on projects and energy transition.
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Schneider Electric, the energy management business, has appointed Xavier Biot as vice president, Power Distribution & Digital Energy in Canada.
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Bluestar Energy Capital, the renewable energy investment platform founded last year (2022) by the former CEO of Ørsted Onshore, has hired a chief executive for its US business.
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OYA Renewables, the clean energy developer and independent power producer, has struck a strategic partnership with OpConnect, an electric vehicle (EV) charging business, to broaden its scope into EV charging infrastructure and management.
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Anaergia has appointed Andrew Spence as CFO with effect from 12 June (2023).
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Pine Gate Renewables, the renewable energy independent power producer, has expanded its leadership by adding three to its C-suite.
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Distributed generation platform Aspen Power has named Andrew Blevin as its new chief risk officer.
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Accelergen, solar and storage developer, has appointed Adam Foltz as senior vice president of grid and commercial analytics.
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Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) has named Jesus Enriquez Torresdey as a director of project finance credit approval in New York.
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The credit platform Apterra Infrastructure Capital continues growing their team with a second hire.
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Baker Botts has hired an energy-focused corporate partner, Clay Brett, to its Houston office. The hire reflects a steady rise in energy and infrastructure deals and investment for the law firm.
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Qualitas Energy, the Spanish renewable energy-focused investment platform, is opening a new office in Chile.
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Stonepeak Partners, a leading infrastructure and real assets investment manager, has appointed Michael Leitner as senior managing director of the credit space.
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Danish wind turbine manufacturer Vestas Wind Systems has secured a 72MW wind project supply order with an undisclosed customer in Argentina.
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Apterra Infrastructure Capital, the credit platform launched in March (2023) by Investec’s former co-heads of power & infrastructure Ralph Cho and Michael Panetlogianis, has made its first hire.
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Kane Kiester has joined sustainable energy consulting group Insight Energy as vice president of energy procurement and management, based out of Louisville, Kentucky.
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Grupo Energía Bogotá (GEB) has appointed Andrés Baracaldo and Walter Sciutto as country managers for Brazil and Peru, respectively.
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Multinational law firm Winston & Strawn has appointed Rodney Moore and Sam Peca as partners and as members of the transactions department's private equity transactions practice.
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Perkins Coie has hired Buck Endemann and Elizabeth Crouse as partners in the firm’s renewable energy practice based in the US West Coast.
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Spearmint Energy, the battery energy storage specialist founded in May 2022, has added two senior hires to its growing development team.
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Brazilian transmission company Taesa (Transmissora Aliança de Energia Elétrica) has hired Rinaldo Pecchio Jr. as chief financial and investor relations officer.
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BP Energy has appointed Starlee Sykes as chief executive of Archaea Energy, which the fuel retailer acquired in December (2022).
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Law firm Holland & Knight is growing the firm’s energy practice in Mexico with the addition of Gerardo Prado Hernández.
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Clifford Chance has promoted energy and infrastructure lawyer Mariana Estévez to partnership, effective May 1.
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Gabriel Salinas has rejoined Mayer Brown as a partner in the firm’s Houston office. He will be a part of its corporate and securities practice, where he will focus on M&A transactions and energy transition projects across the Americas.
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Rainer Kraft has joined CIBC Capital Markets as managing director, head of syndications after leaving BBVA.
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Multinational law firm Linklaters has hired Lauren Bachtel as senior counsel in the Energy and Infrastructure Group, based out of its New York office.
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Marathon Capital, the sustainable-energy-focused investment bank and financial advisor, has named Iain Watson country manager of its Canadian operations.
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Avina Clean Hydrogen has named Tom Linebarger (former CEO of Cummins), Susan Dio (former president and chair of BP America) and Warren East (former CEO of Rolls-Royce) to the Avina Advisory Board (AAB).
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Vision RNG has hired Brian Martz as chief operating officer (COO), based in Arizona.
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Infrastructure investment manager Morrison & Co has hired Brookfield Asset Management’s former head of infrastructure project management, Melissa Richards.
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Buckeye has launched a diversified energy company that will focus on the development, construction and operation of energy transition projects – BAES Infrastructure.
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The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) has teamed up with Brazilian investment business Votorantim to launch a company in Brazil focused on investing in the energy transition globally.
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CenterPoint Energy has appointed Christopher Foster executive vice president and CFO, effective 5 May 2023. He replaces Jason Wells, who took over as president and COO earlier this year.
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Battery energy storage developer GridStor has appointed Jason Burwen VP of policy and strategy.
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US Clean Energy (USCE) has launched a clean energy platform to address the growing demand for clean energy infrastructure, capital and technology to support the US clean energy transition.
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St,-Louis-based renewable energy utility Birch Creek Energy has announced the launch of its two independent power producer (IPP) entities. The IPPs are:
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Law firm Linklaters has added two partners and senior counsel to its energy and infrastructure group.
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Chilean renewables developer Latin America Power (LAP) has named a new chief executive, based in Santiago.
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SB Energy, the US renewables platform of Japanese multinational SoftBank Group, has hired Gaetan Frotte as chief financial officer.
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Greenberg Traurig has hired Noah Pollak as a shareholder and a member of its energy project finance and development practice in Washington, DC.
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Shearman & Sterling has hired Mona Dajani as the global head of renewables, Americas head of hydrogen and ammonia, and global head of energy and infrastructure, based in its New York office.
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Apollo Global Management has launched a standalone credit business following the first close of its acquisition of the bulk of Credit Suisse’s Securitized Products Group.
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American Electric Power has appointed Emily J. Duncan senior vice president of federal affairs in the company's Washington, D.C. office.
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Altus Power, the independent developer, owner and operator of commercial-scale solar facilities, has named Sophia Lee as its chief sustainability officer.
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Boston-headquartered energy company Advanced Power has hired a new vice president of asset management.
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Investec has promoted Fred Petit and Hans Beekmans as co-heads of its North America Power and Infrastructure team.
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Spanish law firm Cuatrecasas has appointed Iván Libenson as managing partner of its Mexico City office.
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Cahill Gordon Reindel has hired Emeka Chinwuba as a partner in the firm’s New York office.
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Spearmint Energy, the battery energy storage specialist founded in May 2022, has added Peter Rood as chief development officer to its growing team.
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Korean renewable energy business Qcells is set to invest more than $2.5 billion to build a complete solar supply chain in the US.
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California-based Arevia Power has opened a new office in Las Vegas and recently hired Chris Brooks as senior vice president (SVP) of external relations.
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Brazil has landed a new minister of Mines and Energy following the re-election of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, who assumed office on January 1.
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Energy lawyer Tyler O'Connor has re-joined Crowell & Moring as a partner in its energy and government affairs practice, based in Washington DC.
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Green energy company Greenbacker has hired power and renewables investment expert Jerome Briens based in its New York office.
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Jeffrey Mathews has been promoted to managing director at Barclays, based in New York.
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K&L Gates has hired Martha Groves Pugh as a partner in its Washington DC office.
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Alternative asset management firm, Apollo Global Capital, is set to launch an infrastructure credit platform, PFR understands.
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French bank CIC has added to its project finance team in New York with the hire of Stefano Di Genua.
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Macquarie Capital has appointed Kevin Nobels as a managing director in its infrastructure and energy capital group.
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Miami-headquartered renewables firm, Enfinity Global, has hired Julio Fournier Fisas as chief growth officer to accelerate the company's execution across various strategies, including storage and the commercialization of energy.
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Spearmint Energy, the battery energy storage specialist founded in May (2022), has added four more to its growing team.
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JLL has hired Kristy David as a senior vice president for its clean energy and infrastructure advisory team, based in Washington DC.
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Spanish law firm Cuatrecasas has promoted M&A and private equity lawyer Oscar Trelles to managing partner of the Lima office.
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Brookfield Asset Management has selected Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a preferred cloud provider to accelerate its digital infrastructure and become a more data-driven company.
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Nova Scotia-based financial advisory firm Northgreen Capital has appointed Philip Bassil as managing director and head of global offshore wind M&A.
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Italian energy company Enel expects to exit Peru in 2023 according to its latest strategic plan, in a bid to reduce debt and finance new investments in other markets.
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HSBC has added to its power, renewables & infrastructure team with the hire of Georgios Kalpias.
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PivotGen, a renewable energy development and repowering company, has appointed Lucas Michelini as vice president of finance.
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Enel North America is set to build an industrial-scale production facility in the US for manufacturing solar photovoltaic (PV) modules, following the Inflation Reduction Act’s (IRA) incentives for domestic production.
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Brazilian power generator Eneva has appointed a new chief executive following the resignation of Pedro Zinner.
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Linklaters has expanded its US practice with the hire of Ron Erlichman as partner and head of Energy and Infrastructure in the Americas.
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Solar technology manufacturer First Solar has promoted Elie David Villeda Orozco to head its Latin American activities, based out of Mexico.
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Francis Slingsby has been appointed chief executive of Mayflower Wind – a JV between Shell New Energies US and Ocean Winds North America.
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EDP Renewables North America has hired renewable energy industry veteran Sybil Cioffi as director of finance.
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Renewables company Low Carbon has hired a managing director for investments in North America from RWE Renewables.
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Brazilian power generator Eneva’s chief executive is leaving for a new opportunity after six years leading the company.
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Energy transition investor ECP has appointed Kristine Rea to its newly created role of chief talent officer.
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American Electric Power (AEP) has named a new CFO as its incumbent prepares to take on the chief executive role next year.
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The board of Centerpoint Energy has appointed executive vice president and CFO Jason Wells as president and COO, with effect from 1 January (2023).
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PEI Global Partners, a recently formed investment bank specializing in power, energy and infrastructure, has added a new managing director.
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Law firm Latham & Watkins has promoted a partner in its project development and finance practice.
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Ecofin Advisors, the investment manager of US renewables fund Ecofin US Renewables Infrastructure Trust (RNEW), has hired a group lead and portfolio manager.
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Molly Morris will succeed Siri Espedal Kindem as the new president of Equinor Wind US, effective 1 January 2023.
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Clean energy company SGP BioEnergy has added green hydrogen production to an advanced biorefinery located in Colon and Balboa, Panama.
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EE North America – a subsidiary of the Danish renewable energy company European Energy – is targeting 10GW of renewable energy in the US by 2026.
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EverGen Infrastructure Corp has appointed Vancouver-based Sean Hennessy as chief financial officer (CFO), effective immediately.
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Onpeak Capital has expanded its team after recently moving its head office from New York to Florida.
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Warburg Pincus-backed Viridi Energy has appointed Dan Crouse as chief executive and Matthew Innamorati as the chief financial officer, effective immediately.
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A former managing director at John Laing has reemerged as head of investments for Octopus Energy’s North America business.
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Spain-based renewables outfit, Opdenergy, has hired a new M&A director for its operations in the US.
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Consultancy firm KPMG has promoted a managing director and head of infrastructure to partner in Panama.
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Solar and energy storage developer Savion has promoted a senior member of its management team to the position of senior vice president of transactions.
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A managing director on Silicon Valley Bank’s project finance team has left the bank for a new opportunity, PFR understands.
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Spanish-owned Enfinity Global has hired a new head of M&A for its business in the Americas, having recently added a new chief executive officer to the branch.
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Enel Green Power has named Jose Luis Navarro Hermoso head of the company's Mexico operations.
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Japanese bank SMBC has hired a new vice president to its project finance team.
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A former managing director at Natixis has landed at Societe Generale after leaving his position in July.
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Avangrid has appointed Jose Antonio Miranda as president and CEO of Avangrid Renewables following the fusion of the onshore and offshore renewable businesses.
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Cherian George of Fitch Ratings fame has cropped up in a new role having joined Keystone Global as a senior adviser.
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Macquarie Capital’s head of infrastructure and energy finance in the Americas has left the firm to take up a senior position at the investment bank Evercore.
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The former CEO of Orsted Onshore has launched a renewable energy investment platform, named Bluestar Energy Capital.
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CIT Bank has hired a new director to its energy group from Lightsource bp.
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Baker Botts has hired the co-head of the energy and infrastructure projects team at Nixon Peabody as a partner to its global projects team in New York.
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EDF Renewables has appointed Fabiano Fuga as commercial director for the company's Brazilian activities, based in São Paulo.
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Broad Reach Power has hired a new chief financial officer from CenterPoint Energy.
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US-headquartered consulting and technical services company ArcVera Renewables has appointed Dan Bernadett as its new global director of wind engineering.
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Renewable energy outfit Spearmint Energy has appointed a new chief strategy officer to its team.
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The head of Fifth Third Bank’s renewable energy financing group, Eric Cohen, has left the bank to take up a new role at JP Morgan.
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Baker Botts has hired a new partner from K&L Gates to join its global projects team in the firm’s Washington DC office.
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An investment officer at IDB Invest is leaving the private sector arm of the Inter-American Development Bank Group for a new opportunity after close to ten years at the bank.
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Earthrise Energy has added a new chief financial officer to its team from a renewable energy infrastructure company.
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Renewable energy developer PivotGen has appointed a new chief financial officer.
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Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) has appointed a new president and CEO following the departure of the infrastructure company’s previous head, Ralph Izzo.
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Law firm Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner (BCLP) has added a new partner to its energy, environment and infrastructure practice.
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Swift Current Energy has added a senior member of staff to the new role of chief of project execution from EDP Renewables North America (EDPRNA).
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A director of valuation and M&A at Cypress Creek Renewables has left the company for a new opportunity.
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Jeff Rodgers has joined join Slate Asset Management as managing director, North American infrastructure, based in Toronto.
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McDermott Will & Emery has added a new energy-focused partner to its transactions practice group from Mayer Brown.
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Partners Group has hired Andre Burba as managing director, based in Denver, Colorado.
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Anthony Edwards, the New York-based managing director for global infrastructure finance for CIBC, has exited the Canadian bank, IJGlobal can reveal.
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8minute Solar Energy has hired a new director of project finance from Origis Energy.
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Irene Vélez Torres has been appointed to lead Colombia’s Ministry of Mines and Energy under the new administration, effective August 11.
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A vice president at Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners has left the private equity firm to work on S2G Ventures’ energy team.
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American Electric Power (AEP), one of the US’s largest utility companies, has appointed a new CEO as the incumbent, Nicholas Akins, prepares to step down from the role.
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Santander has added a new head of energy and power for North America to its team from SMBC.
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Caisse de dépôt et placement du Québec (CDPQ) has promoted Eduardo Farhat to head the firm’s activities in Brazil.
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Generate Capital has hired a pair of managing directors from Energy Impact Partners (EIP) and Oaktree Capital to bolster its team.
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Wilson Ferreira Junior will assume the position of CEO of Brazilian electric utility company Eletrobras after leaving the company in 2021.
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AES Andes has appointed Javier Dib as CEO of the company, replacing Ricardo Falú who spent four years heading the Latin American subsidiary of AES Corp.
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A senior managing director at Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners has left the firm to join a newly formed private equity outfit that focuses on renewables.
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Generate Capital, the California-based environmental infrastructure financier-owner-operator, has appointed Regina Chung as head of infrastructure fundraising.
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Greenbacker Renewable Energy Co has appointed a new chief financial officer, taking over responsibilities from Richard Butt, who is retiring.
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Societe Generale has added a new vice president to its energy advisory and project finance team from Whitehall & Co.
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Macquarie Capital has appointed John Pickhaver as its new head of infrastructure & energy capital for the Americas.
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Norton Rose Fulbright has promoted a new projects partner to its Washington DC office, who will also serve as the firm’s global co-head of energy, infrastructure and resources.
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A senior managing director for Guggenheim Securities, Dean Keller, has left the financial institution to take up a role as a partner at a newly formed investment banking and financial advisory firm.
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Macquarie Group has appointed William Gerald Demas as senior managing director and head of Americas, and Macquarie's Green Investment Group, based in the firm’s New York office.
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Energy company Avangrid has appointed Patricia Cosgel to act as the company’s chief financial officer after she took on the role on an interim basis in February.
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Mizuho has promoted a new director to its project finance team in the bank’s power and infrastructure group.
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Argentine renewable developer Genneia has hired a new director of projects and operations from the Nordex Group, based in Buenos Aires.
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Corporación Interamericana para el Financiamiento de Infraestructura (Cifi) has added a managing partner from Norfund to its team.
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Engie has appointed Rosaline Corinthien to head the French group's subsidiary Engie Energia Chile.
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JLL has appointed Andrew Linowes as its vice president and clean energy public sector lead, based in Washington DC.
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Entergy has appointed Peter Norgeot as executive vice president and chief operating officer, succeeding Paul Hinnenkamp who is retiring after seven years in the role.
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King & Spalding has hired Fradyn Suárez as a partner to join the firm’s corporate, finance and investments group in the Miami office launched in February.
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Leeward Renewable Energy has appointed a new chief financial officer from a Hawaiian utility.
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SMT Energy has hired a director of project management to its energy storage team from EDP Renewables (EDPR).
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Eversheds Sutherland is expanding its energy practice with the addition of a partner in the Houston office.
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Mainstream Renewable Power has hired Fabian Videla as investment senior manager for the group’s Latin American activities, based out of Chile.
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Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (SMBC) has promoted Jacques Alazraki to director of power and renewables project finance for Latin America, based in New York.
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Hunton Andrews Kurth has hired Christian Rudloff as counsel in its energy and infrastructure team, based in New York.
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Matt Ransweiler has re-joined Invenergy as vice president, finance and capital markets, based in New York.
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The four-strong HSBC project finance team in Toronto has been served its notice as the bank continues its strategy of shaving numbers.
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Stephen Sung, who has worked at CIT Bank as a managing director in its power and energy group, has left the bank for a new position at CarVal Investors.
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Generate Capital has hired a new vice president to the financial service’s investment team from Clearway Energy.
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A vice president in BMO Capital Markets’ power and energy infrastructure investment banking group has left the outfit to work as an executive director at CIBC.
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CleanCapital has added to its team, with the renewables developer hiring a senior director of business development from an energy storage solutions company.
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Andrew Flanagan, the chief development officer at Leeward Renewable Energy, has left the outfit to work in the C-suite of RWE Renewables Americas.
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Rabobank has hired Mark Gurfinkel from BayernLB to work as a managing director for its project finance team.
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Canadian bank CIBC has added three new members to its energy, infrastructure and transition investment banking group after news broke that Neil Davids had joined the bank earlier this month.
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Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati has hired Elise Zoli to join the firm’s energy and climate solutions practice as a partner in the Boston’s office.
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Orrick has hired Jared Joyce-Schleimer as a partner in its energy & infrastructure finance team in New York.
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The New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG) and Rochester Gas & Electric (RG&E), both subsidiaries of Avangrid, have appointed Patricia Nilsen as president and CEO.
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NextEra Energy has promoted a member of its senior staff to the position of vice president of finance.
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Sunrun has promoted a member of its senior management team to the position of CFO following the departure of Tom von Reichbauer.
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BNP Paribas’ co-head of energy and renewables investment banking in the US, Neil Davids, has left the French bank to take up a managing director role at CIBC.
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Norton Rose Fulbright has appointed a new partner to its Los Angeles office from Morrison & Foerster.
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ICBC’s former head of structured finance, Michael Fabisiak, has found a new role as head of project and export finance for Australia & New Zealand Banking Group (ANZ Bank’s) North America operations.
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Brian Goldstein, who left his position as a managing director and head of project finance at CoBank last year, has been appointed managing investment officer at the US Department of Energy (DOE).
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The Libra Group has promoted Arguiró Elefteriu to chief sustainability officer, a role newly created within the group.
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Green Rock Energy Partners, the sustainable infrastructure-focused private equity firm, has appointed Christine Gabbianelli as principal and head of investor relations, based in New York.
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K&L Gates has added a team of four energy-focused partners to its firm from Husch Blackwell, with three of the new partners joining K&L’s Kansas City, Missouri offices and one landing at the firm’s Austin, Texas office.
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NextEra Energy’s former president and CEO, Jim Robo, will vacate his position as chairman at the company with NextEra’s sitting CEO set to fill the role.
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The law firm Paul Hastings has added a new partner and co-chair of its infrastructure and energy practice from Shearman and Sterling.
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Marathon Capital has hired Jon Krahulik as a managing director based out of the firm’s San Francisco office.
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A former managing director from ICBC's project finance team has reemerged in a senior banking role at Investec.
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Denham Capital has appointed Alberto Garcia as managing director of the investment firm’s sustainable infrastructure credit platform.
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CIBC Capital Markets has hired Luisa Fuentes as managing director to head the bank’s energy transition and sustainable finance division, based out of New York.
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The Carlyle Group has hired Avik Dey as co-head of Carlyle International Energy Partners (CIEP), effective this summer, as the group merges its energy and infrastructure units.
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Orrick has hired David Aaronson as a partner in its energy & infrastructure group, based in the firm’s Houston office.
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Spain’s Enfinity Global has appointed Ricardo Diaz as CEO for the Americas, marking the company’s entry into the US, Canada and Latin America markets.
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Enel Chile has promoted Victor Tavera to CEO of the company’s distribution and transmission subsidiaries. Tavera will replace Ramón Castañeda, effective May 16.
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Cypress Creek Renewables has appointed Jeff Meigel, formerly of Brookfield Renewables, to the position of chief investment officer at the renewables developer.
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Generate Capital has appointed Brian Lehman as chief financial officer, succeeding Jack Stark who will remain with the company as executive vice president.
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French bank Credit Agricole has promoted one of its managing directors to the position of head of structured finance advisory in the Americas.
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Andrew Kapp has joined The Carlyle Group as a partner and managing director in the global infrastructure group, based in New York.
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A director for Credit Suisse’s energy and infrastructure investment banking team has left the Swiss outfit to join Evercore.
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Law firm O’Melveny & Meyers has continued its expansion into Texas, after hiring three energy attorneys from Willkie Farr & Gallagher to launch a new office in Houston.
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Winston & Strawn has added a new partner to its energy and infrastructure group in Washington DC from Willkie Farr & Gallagher.
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A director in ING Capital’s infrastructure finance and advisory group has left the outfit.
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The chief financial officer of the utility Southern California Edison (SCE) has left the company to join Cypress Creek Renewables in the same role.
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Cordelio Power has appointed a new chief financial officer from Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments) and added an innovation leader.
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ICBC has hired a new executive director and head of project finance, Americas, from China Merchants Bank, following the ICBC’s restructuring of its project finance team.
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Leyline Renewable Capital has appointed a new managing director for originations from the developer Hecate Energy.
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Marathon Capital, the financial advising and investment banking firm, has hired Brian Kremer as managing director based in New York.
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Latham & Watkins has hired Ethan Schultz as a partner in the M&A practice and its energy & infrastructure industry group, operating out of the law firm’s Washington DC and Houston offices.
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Gravity-based energy storage developer Energy Vault has appointed David Hitchcock as interim CFO to replace Andrea Wuttke, once she leaves after a transitional period.
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A group of industry veterans have formed Cardinal Midstream, an independent energy company, and received a capital commitment of $300 million from EnCap Flatrock Midstream.
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The Carlyle Group’s newly-formed renewables portfolio company, Copia Power, has appointed a new CEO from Sol Systems.
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A group of energy veterans has launched Green Rock Energy Partners in New York, a sustainable infrastructure focused private equity firm that invests in renewable energy companies and projects.
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Latham & Watkins has expanded the law firm’s energy and infrastructure industry group through the addition of two partners who specialize in project finance.
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A director at Whitehall & Co has left the boutique investment bank to join a Japanese-owned solar developer.
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Infrastructure investment manager I Squared Capital has appointed 3 new partners – Andreas Moon, Chenhua Shen and Enrico Del Prete.
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Norton Rose Fulbright has hired renewable and alternative energy tax attorney Hilary Lefko as a partner in its Washington DC office.
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Norton Rose Fulbright has added a new partner to its projects practice from DLA Piper as the law firm opens a new office in Chicago.
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Andrew Gongaware has joined BMO Capital Markets as managing director, based in New York.
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Siemens Financial Services has hired a new director of project and structured finance to its energy team from CoBank.
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The Industrial and Commercial Bank of China (ICBC) is in the midst of restructuring its North American project finance team, with two senior bankers having already left the outfit.
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Doral Renewables, an Israeli-owned renewables company, has hired a new general counsel from Plus Power to the company’s legal team.
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Orrick has hired partners Jeff Kayes and Adam Griffin into its energy and infrastructure group in San Francisco and New York, respectively.
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Chilean independent power producer Colbun has appointed Jose Ignacio Escobar as CEO following the resignation of Thomas Keller.
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Sempra Energy has promoted Glen Donovan to a new role as vice president of investor relations,.
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HIG Capital, a global alternative investment firm, has hired a managing director from Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners.
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CleanCapital has handed out a series of senior promotions at the firm, including elevating one senior staff member to the position of chief operating officer.
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After being set to join Credit Suisse as the bank’s global head of power and renewable energy investment banking, Mike Dunne will no longer be joining the Swiss bank.
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The head of US offshore wind for National Grid has left her position at the UK-based company to join the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MCEC).
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Origis Energy has appointed Josh Teigiser to the position of managing director, elevating him from his previous role as vice president of business development.
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Latham & Watkins has hired Bruce Herzog as a partner in its private equity and M&A practices and a member of the corporate department, based in Houston.
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London-based Cubico Sustainable Investments has appointed David Swindin as its new CEO, with immediate effect.
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energyRe has made three new senior hires, including the addition of a CFO and chief business development officer from EDP Renewables (EDPR).
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Wilmington Trust has added a quintet of new hires from MUFG to the financial services company’s project finance group.
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Laura Park has been named senior investment leader of private infrastructure at New York-based Partners Group.
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Jennie Rose has joined AustralianSuper as senior investment director in New York.
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AES Corp has appointed a new CFO to lead its US utilities and conventional generation business.
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Canadian independent power producer Cordelio Power has appointed a new vice president of development who last worked at Glidepath Power Solutions.
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EQT has hired Alex Greenbaum, former head of infrastructure for North America at GIC, as a partner.
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CleanCapital has promoted Winston Chen from vice president to director within its capital markets team.
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A managing director at Siemens Financial Services has taken up a senior post in the renewables project development arm of Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners.
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A managing director at Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has left to join renewables-focused independent power producer BrightNight as the company’s CFO.
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K&L Gates has announced three partnership promotions, with energy and infrastructure attorney Tariq Fedda among those making the grade.
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Avangrid has picked a new CEO after Dennis Arriola announced his intention to leave the Orange, Connecticut-based renewables developer later this year.
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Fernando Chican de Oliveira has left his role at Patria Investments to join Lumina Capital Management, a new asset management firm recently established by Daniel Goldberg.
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CohnReznick Capital has promoted a trio of senior staffers in its renewable energy finance team, including two to the rank of managing director.
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Los Angeles-based utility-scale solar platform Birch Creek Development has recruited the former CFO of Cypress Creek Renewables in addition to several other senior hires.
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BBVA is set to open a new representative office in Santiago, five years after selling its Chilean operations to Scotiabank.
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EIG has recruited Flavio Valle as managing director and head of Brazil.
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Swift Current Energy has added an executive vice president of asset management from Consolidated Asset Management Services (CAMS).
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Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has hired John Lucas, who previously led renewables procurement efforts for Amazon Web Services' (AWS) data center operations across the Americas.
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A Los Angeles-based director in NordLB's project finance team has left for a senior finance post at Pattern Energy Group.
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Brazilian law firm Fialho Salles has promoted project finance lawyer Ricardo Rondino to partner.
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Scott Zuchorski has been named global group head of infrastructure and project finance at Fitch Ratings, filling the role left by his predecessor Cherian George who retires at the end of February, while Greg Remec has been promoted to head of North America infrastructure.
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Greenbacker Capital Management has added a senior staffer in its investments team in New York from RWE Renewables Americas, as it aims to broaden the scope of its energy transition investments, particularly in battery storage.
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Latham & Watkins has brought in a senior partner from White & Case as it continues to grow its M&A and private equity practices in New York.
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Mizuho has hired two senior power investment bankers from JP Morgan to head up its energy investment banking team and debt capital markets group.
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Peruvian law firm Damma Legal Advisors has recruited its first infrastructure partner, Juan José Cardenas, from EY Law.
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Holland & Knight has recruited Camilo Gantiva Hidalgo as a partner in its capital markets and financial law practices in Bogotá, Colombia.
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KKR & Co has appointed former US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) chairman Neil Chatterjee as an industry adviser.
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Allen & Overy has hired George “Chip” Cannon as a partner in its project, energy, natural resources and infrastructure (PENRI) practice, based in Washington, DC.
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Invenergy has appointed Omar Martino to the post of executive vice president, markets and regulatory.
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Details surrounding the nature of three senior exits from I Squared Capital's infrastructure and energy team in Miami have come to light.
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Brazilian law firm Souza Mello e Torres has promoted Diogo Nebias to partner in its infrastructure practice.
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A managing director overseeing M&A and finance at Origis Energy has left to take up the top post at a renewable energy fund manager that is owned by Nuveen.
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A trio of leading players in the US team of I Squared Capital has resigned.
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Canada Infrastructure Bank (CIB) has appointed Evelyn Joerg as CFO in Toronto.
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Kirkland & Ellis has expanded its debt finance practice with the addition of two power and infrastructure partners from Norton Rose Fulbright.
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Pine Gate Renewables has hired a new chief financial officer who joins from Engie.
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Vineyard Wind, the offshore wind joint venture between Avangrid Renewables and Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP), has appointed a new CEO.
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A New York-based global projects partner at Baker Botts has decided to leave the firm after more than 15 years.
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Brazilian law firm Schmidt Valois has recruited Pedro Seraphim as a partner in São Paulo.
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A former partner in McDermot Will & Emery's energy practice has launched a utility-scale solar development platform based in Arkansas.
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Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners’ portfolio company Scout Clean Energy has hired a new chief commercial officer who joins from Enel Green Power North America.
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Paul Hastings has promoted Thomas Sines to partner in its Latin America infrastructure and energy practices.
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Latham & Watkins has expanded its M&A and private equity practices with the addition of a power and renewables-focused partner from Vinson & Elkins.
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Maria Muñoz has joined Crédit Agricole as a director in the Latin American project finance team.
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Several senior Cantor Fitzgerald power bankers who left the firm at the end of 2021 have launched a specialist investment banking platform focused on supporting the energy transition.
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After more than two decades with Société Générale's energy project finance team, Chris Moscardell has left the bank to head up infrastructure and power solutions at Nomura.
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The former CFO of EDP Renewables North America has left the company to take up the same post at Lightsource bp.
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A long-time ArcLight Capital Partners staffer who has been with the firm for 17 years is leaving for a new role at Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP).
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Oil and gas giant Shell has recruited a senior EDP Renewables staffer as deal lead in its renewables and energy solutions team in the US.
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Mizuho Bank has recruited two new directors to its Americas project finance team in New York.
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Goldman Sachs has recruited Marisol González de Cosío as head of infrastructure and utilities in its debt private placement investors (DPPI) group in New York.
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Blackstone Infrastructure Partners has appointed a new head of public-private partnerships in the US.
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NextEra Energy has refreshed its senior leadership team as long-standing chairman and CEO Jim Robo prepares to step down.
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Renewables developer Intersect Power has hired a chief legal officer who was most recently a partner in Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe's corporate group in San Francisco for 12 years.
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Parag Patel, a vice president focused on power and renewables in Prudential Private Capital's real assets group, has left after 15 years with the firm.
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Chilean president-elect Gabriel Boric has appointed his cabinet, which includes new ministers of energy, public works and mining.
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Allianz Global Investors has grown its Americas infrastructure debt team in New York with two new hires – Marta Perez and Stephen Coscia.
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CIBC has expanded its US project finance and infrastructure team with the addition of a managing director from Rabobank.
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Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners portfolio company Scout Clean Energy has hired a senior director of development from Origis Energy.
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Andres Onetto has joined Rubicon Capital Advisors as a managing director in the firm’s new office in Santiago.
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Roberto Rios Artigas has moved to DLA Piper as a partner in the firm’s Mexico City office.
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Baker Botts has expanded its energy project finance practice with the addition of two senior attorneys from DLA Piper.
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Norway's Equinor has hired a new head of US project finance from Colorado-based Summit Utilities.
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Natixis has appointed Luciana Costa as its senior country manager for Brazil.
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Norton Rose Fulbright announced its 2022 partner promotions on January 11, with projects attorney Rebecca Abou-Chedid making the grade.
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BMO Capital Markets has hired Michael Cummings from SMBC and Andrew Gongaware from CIBC to help lead its power, utilities and infrastructure group.
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Brazilian law firm Veirano Advogados has promoted Paula Surerus to managing partner for the 2022-2023 term.
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New York-based Onpeak Capital has promoted three members of its renewable energy finance team to the rank of vice president.
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EDP Renewables North America has appointed a new CEO following the departure of the incumbent, Miguel Angel Prado, in November.
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The former head of Enel Green Power North America has relocated to Lisbon to run the renewables division of a Portuguese oil and gas firm.
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Milbank has promoted Richard Hillman to partner in the firm's project, energy and infrastructure finance group in New York.
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LS Power has elevated a staffer to the rank of vice president in its private equity team.
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The CEO of Mayflower Wind Energy, the offshore wind joint venture between Shell New Energies and EDPR Offshore North America, has taken up a new role.
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Howard Stern has retired from Northwestern Mutual after spending more than 21 years at the firm.
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Baker Botts has hired veteran project finance attorney Dino Barajas as a partner in its global projects department based out of Los Angeles.
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Goldman Sachs Asset Management has elevated a vice president in its sustainable investment group to the rank of managing director.
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Trilantic North America, a private equity firm, has spun out its energy team into an independent firm called Greenbelt Capital Partners.
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Citi has hired a new global co-head of power, utilities and renewables from Barclays following the departure of Jack Paris this summer.
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Credit Suisse has hired a new global head of power and renewable energy investment banking from rival Bank of America in New York.
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Law firm White & Case has hired a partner from Jones Day to grow its global project development and finance practice.
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A pair of managing directors who founded Fortress Investment Group’s energy and power credit group have left the financial services firm to join HPS Investment Partners.
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BNP Paribas has made another addition to the bank’s Energy, Resources and Infrastructure (ERI) Americas team, hiring a vice president from ING Capital.
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Los Angeles-based investment bank Houlihan Lokey has added a new managing director to its power and utilities group.
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An offshore wind joint venture between EDP Renewables (EDPR) and Engie has appointed a new CEO after the previous one stepped down.
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An executive director at Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has left the outfit to work at Nomura Infrastructure and Power Group.
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Miguel Angel Prado, the former CEO of EDP Renewables North America, has landed at a New York-based renewable energy developer.
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A director at Credit Agricole has left the bank to work as a managing director at Competitive Power Ventures (CPV).
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EQT Infrastructure Partners has closed its purchase of New Jersey-based waste-to-energy provider Covanta Holding Corp and appointed a new president and CEO to the company.
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Italian developer Enel Green Power, a subsidiary of Enel Group, has named a new head of its North American business.
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Miguel Angel Prado, the CEO of EDP Renewables North America, has stepped down from the position.
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Canadian bank CIBC Capital Markets has hired an executive director from the National Bank of Canada to join its infrastructure, power and utilities team.
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Texas-based fund manager Rockland Capital has promoted three staffers in its commercial team to senior roles at the company.
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Balanced Rock Power has recruited a former Engie North America staffer as its new vice president of development.
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LS Power's recently launched REV Renewables subsidiary has appointed a chief financial officer who last worked at AES Corp.
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An executive director at Moelis & Co has left the bank to join Canaccord Genuity’s sustainability investment banking team.
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A former director of project finance at Leyline Renewable Capital has landed at a rural and agricultural lending firm based in Irvington, New York.
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Mitsubishi Power Americas has appointed a new president and CEO, succeeding Paul Browning.
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8minute Solar Energy has appointed a new chief financial officer following the departure of Ross Trenary.
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The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has appointed Willie Phillips as commissioner, bringing the number of commissioners at the regulatory body back up to five after the departure of Neil Chatterjee over the summer.
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A former managing director in Credit Suisse's power and utilities investment banking team has taken up a senior role at BMO Capital Markets.
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A director at RWE Renewables has left the developer to take up a senior role at Invenergy.
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Law firm Stroock & Stroock & Lavan has added a pair of partners to expand the firm’s commodities, derivatives and energy team.
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A Louisiana-based residential solar developer has hired a former Vivint Solar executive as its chief legal officer, following the appointment of Thomas Plagemann as CFO earlier this week.
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Talen Energy has elevated John Chesser to the role of CFO after the incumbent, Alex Hernandez, was promoted to CEO.
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Vault Energy Utility, a utility-scale solar developer based out of Washington state, has recruited the CEO of renewables investment and consulting firm Clean Capital Partners.
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Stuart Murray, the head of project and infrastructure finance in the Americas at Citi, is leaving the bank to head up an infrastructure debt team at an asset manager.
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A former senior managing director in Truist's power and renewables investment banking practice who spent more than a decade in the energy group at Credit Suisse before that, has scored a role heading the clean energy team at a boutique investment bank in New York.
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Talen Energy Corp has promoted the president and chief financial officer, Alex Hernandez, to the position of CEO.
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A pair of senior bankers who left Credit Suisse in August have joined as senior managing directors at Evercore.
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A managing director at Whitehall & Co has left the investment bank to join a management consulting firm.
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Energy Capital Partners (ECP) has hired a senior adviser from a Washington D.C.-based management consulting firm focused on domestic and global energy.
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The head of project and infrastructure finance in the Americas at Citi is expected to leave the bank soon, PFR understands.
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Denham Capital has hired Iryna Voronova as a portfolio manager at its newly launched sustainable infrastructure credit platform.
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BNP Paribas' former North America head of power, infrastructure and project finance, Tim Chin, has taken up a new role at BMO Capital Markets.
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Mayer Brown has hired a counsel to the firm’s projects and infrastructure group from Hunton Andrews Kurth.
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Canadian independent power producer Cordelio Power has elevated Paul Rapp to the position of chief operating officer.
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British renewables investor Greencoat Capital has launched in the US with the opening of offices in New York and Chicago ahead of a tipped fund launch.
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Avangrid Renewables has appointed a pair of co-CEOs following the departure of the incumbent, Alejandro de Hoz, from the company.
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China Merchants Bank has elevated Allan Sun to the rank of director of structured finance in the bank's power, oil and gas and natural resources sectors.
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EDP Renewables has added an associate director of investments to its distributed generation team in the US.
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Eduardo Gonzalez Toro has been appointed as the new Peruvian minister for mines and energy (MINEM) as part of a broader cabinet reshuffle less than three months into the presidency of Pedro Castillo.
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Greenbacker Capital Management (GCM) has appointed a new chief investment officer who is taking over the role from Charles Wheeler.
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French bank Natixis has hired former debt capital markets banker Roberto Zaldivar to be country manager for Chile after it received approval from the regulator to open a representative office in the South American country.
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A senior vice president in Bank of America's renewable energy finance team has left the firm to join Canadian pipeline operator TC Energy.
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An investor relations director at AES Corp who previously worked in Rubicon Capital Advisors' power and renewables investment banking team has left for a position at a software company that acquires and holds Bitcoin as part of its corporate strategy.
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Soltage has hired a director of mergers and acquisitions who joins from Avenue Capital Group portfolio company Middle River Power.
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Calibrant Energy, a joint venture established a year ago between Siemens and Macquarie, has hired the senior management team and rights to the project pipeline of a Florida-based distributed solar developer.
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I Squared Capital has launched a renewable energy platform led by former GE Energy Financial Services (GE EFS) staffers, called Cube Green Energy.
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Exelon Corp has appointed a CEO and CFO to lead its competitive generation and retail power businesses, which the company is in the process of spinning off into a separate publicly-traded company.
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Spanish bank BBVA has hired a corporate banking managing director from Banco Sabadell in Mexico to oversee its energy team.
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The infrastructure and renewable energy investment arm of German insurer Allianz is aiming to expand its tax equity team in New York amid a renewed push into the space.
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CleanCapital has appointed a new chief commercial officer, succeeding Melinda Baglio.
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Spanish developer Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) has tasked a former managing director for Mexico and Central America with overseeing a different regional division within the company.
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Paul Hastings has hired corporate and energy lawyers Luis Fernando Gomar and Rocio Guadalupe Mendoza as partners in the firm’s Houston office.
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California-based fuel cell developer Bloom Energy has hired a vice president of investor relations from American Water.
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Captona has hired a capital markets staffer from renewables-focused brokerage and advisory firm Karbone.
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Nomura Greentech has elevated a managing director to the role of co-head in its New York office.
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Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has recruited three senior power and renewables specialists from a range of energy companies and infrastructure firms.
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Entergy Texas has appointed a new CEO and president to succeed Sallie Rainer, who is retiring on November 14 after more than 37 years with the company.
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The president of Vestas' North America division has left the firm for a role at an independent power producer based in the UK.
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The former president and CEO of AES Mexico has landed a new job with EnfraGen’s subsidiary in Chile.
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Latham & Watkins has hired Trina Chandler from Vinson & Elkins as a partner in its M&A and private equity practices and energy and infrastructure industry group in Houston.
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Mizuho managing director and head of Americas project finance, Chris Stolarski, has left the Japanese bank.
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A director in Allianz Global Investors' power and infrastructure debt team has taken up a new role at an energy and sustainable infrastructure investment firm.
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Segue Sustainable Infrastructure, a recently launched renewables investment platform, has added a pair of principals in Salt Lake City, Utah and Boston, Massachusetts.
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The head of capital markets at residential solar finance company Mosaic has left for a senior position at a South Korean renewables developer.
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Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners has appointed an insurance industry veteran as its head of environmental, social and governance (ESG).
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D.E. Shaw Renewable Investments (DESRI) has recruited a director of acquisitions and finance from Canadian Solar subsidiary Recurrent Energy.
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Sol Systems has recruited a chief development officer who previously held the same title at sPower, and a vice president of risk operations who is a veteran of Exelon Corp.
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Orsted has appointed a new CEO of its onshore wind business following the departure of Declan Flanagan from the company last month.
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A vice president in Citi's global power and utilities investment banking group has moved to a boutique private equity and financial advisory firm in New York.
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MUFG's head of Latin American project finance, Ralph Scholtz, has left the bank.
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District energy business CenTrio Energy, which was known as Enwave Energy USA until its acquisition earlier this year, has hired a senior vice president and head of corporate development who joins from Engie.
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AES Mexico's president and CEO has stepped down after three-and-a-half years at the helm of the company.
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BayWa r.e. Solar Projects, the US and Mexico renewables subsidiary of Germany's BayWa Group, has appointed a new CEO and chief operations officer.
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Akin Gump has recruited a Nixon Peabody partner in its Washington, DC office.
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Five senior bankers in Cantor Fitzgerald’s power, energy and infrastructure (PEI) group in New York have parted ways with the firm, including the global co-head of the group, Kevin Phillips.
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Chesapeake Utilities Corp has appointed a new head of investor relations.
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Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman has hired a Latin America-focused energy and infrastructure projects lawyer from Latham & Watkins as a partner in its global finance practice.
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A managing director in the power and utilities group at RBC Capital Markets' Houston office is preparing to leave the bank.
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The former head of Israel's national intelligence agency has joined Doral Renewables, the US subsidiary of Israeli renewable energy developer Doral Group, as a director.
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Dorothee Peuze has taken a new role at Credit Agricole, heading up the bank’s Latin American project finance activities.
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A senior counsel in Norton Rose Fulbright's Austin office has teamed up with a renewable energy consultant to launch an energy infrastructure development company in Texas.
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JLL has added a new managing director as it builds out its renewable energy valuation team within its valuation advisory (VA) business in Tampa, Florida.
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David Flechner has returned to Allen & Overy as a partner in its Latin America practice, after two years at Paul Hastings.
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AES Clean Energy has appointed a new senior counsel who joins from Norton Rose Fulbright.
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Tesla has filed an application with the Public Utility Commission of Texas to sell power into the ERCOT market.
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Neil Chatterjee, the former chairman of the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, has taken up a new role at Hogan Lovells.
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The president of Colombian transmission firm Interconexión Eléctrica (ISA) has handed in his resignation, shortly after state-owned oil company Ecopetrol purchased a stake in the company.
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Peru's Ministry of Energy and Mines (MINEM) has appointed a new deputy minister for electricity.
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Jack Paris, a managing director and co-head of power, utilities & renewables at Citi, has left the bank for a senior leadership role at an infrastructure and real estate-focused investment manager.
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Starwood Infrastructure Finance's former head of originations has started in a new role at a commercial bank in New York.
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Andrew Evans, the CFO of Atlanta, Georgia-based gas and electric utility Southern Company, is retiring at the end of this year.
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Christopher Willott has joined law firm Arnold & Porter’s corporate and finance practice group as partner, based in New York.
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Marathon Capital has hired a managing director from BMO Capital Markets as it beefs up its Houston-based energy transition advisory team.
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Nautilus Solar Energy has appointed Camelia Miu as its new CFO.
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Truist Securities has hired a new managing director in its power & utilities division from BMO Capital Markets.
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Holland & Knight has appointed Maria Juliana Saa Hoyos as a partner in its Bogotá office.
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Xcel Energy has appointed a new executive vice president and chief operations officer, following the appointment of Bob Frenzel as president and CEO earlier this year.
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Fifth Third Bank has added a new managing director to its energy group from BayernLB.
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McDermott Will & Emery has recruited three partners focused on project finance, energy and infrastructure to its transactions practice group, based out of New York and Houston.
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Members of Capital Dynamics' Clean Energy Infrastructure (CEI) team in the US and its Arevon Asset Management affiliate have joined up to launch a new platform called Arevon Energy, with the support of an initial capital infusion from a trio of investment funds.
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A former BlackRock director has joined Boston-based renewables developer Swift Current Energy as executive vice president, finance and capital markets.
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Blackstone portfolio company Aypa Power has added a new chief commercial officer and vice president of structured products, who have both worked at sPower and AES Corp.
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Stoel Rives energy partner Anthony Girolami has joined Sheppard Mullin's energy, infrastructure and project finance team in California.
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Recently launched renewables investment platform Segue Sustainable Infrastructure has recruited a global projects attorney from Baker Botts as its new vice president and general counsel.
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NY Green Bank (NYGB) is bolstering its investment and portfolio management group, scooping up a vice president from MUFG.
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BNP Paribas' North America head of power, infrastructure and project finance, Tim Chin, has left the French bank.
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Beecher Carlson has poached another senior staffer from Willis Towers Watson, as it continues to build out its global energy team.
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NY Green Bank (NYGB) has appointed Andrew Kessler as its new president, while also bringing a new managing director on board.
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A group of Credit Suisse's most senior energy and power bankers have left the Swiss investment bank and are planning to take up new positions at rival firms in the fall.
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Alexei Macorin Vivan has returned to Schmidt Valois (SVMFA) as a partner in its São Paulo office.
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Matrix Renewables, a portfolio company of private equity firm TPG, has recruited an 18-year NextEra Energy veteran to head its US operations as it ramps up its presence within the country.
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LS Power has launched a new Houston-based platform that will develop, acquire and operate renewable and energy storage projects across the US.
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A senior project director at Cypress Creek Renewables has joined Foundation Solar Partners (FSP), a solar development firm founded by three ex-Cypress Creek officials that was recently acquired by Hull Street Energy.
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Joao Metelo, the former CEO of Principle Power, has joined Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) as a full-time senior adviser.
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OMERS Infrastructure has added two senior executives to its asset management team, namely a head of ESG based in New York and a managing director in London.
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The Central American Bank for Economic Integration (BCIE/CABEI) has hired Mercedes Gonzalez Romeral as its coordinator for public-private partnerships.
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CCA Group has hired a managing director of executions from EDF Renewables North America.
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Robert Walsh, who has spent 14 years as executive vice president and CFO of Evercore, is retiring at the end of this year.
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Residential solar company Sunrun has appointed a new CEO who will succeed co-founder and CEO Lynn Jurich.
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After nearly three decades, David Bird has left Societe Generale Americas and is due to start a new role in September.
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South Jersey Industries (SJI) has selected a successor to the company’s president, Dave Robbins, who will retire at the end of this year.
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Willis Towers Watson veteran Danny Seagraves has left the firm for a new role at insurance and risk management brokerage Beecher Carlson.
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Orsted Onshore's CEO, Declan Flanagan, has decided to part ways with the Danish renewables developer.
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A senior counsel in Norton Rose Fulbright's New York office has joined Mintz Levin's tax, energy and sustainability practice.
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Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher has hired Marwan Azzi as a partner in its New York private equity practice.
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A vice president in Macquarie Capital's energy and infrastructure investment team in New York has left for a role at the Taipei offices of one of the asset manager's renewables portfolio companies.
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JERA Co, which is a joint venture between TEPCO Fuel & Power and Chubu Electric Power Co, is expanding its renewables coverage with the addition of Franklin Sherman, who was previously executive director, project finance at Mizuho.
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TeraWatt Infrastructure, a California-based electric vehicle infrastructure firm backed by Keyframe Capital and Cyrus Capital, has hired two senior executives who previously worked at Enel X North America and Advanced Microgrid Solutions.
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Irving, Texas-headquartered NGP Energy Capital, which has historically focused on oil and gas investments, has hired two new partners in an effort to expand its energy transition team.
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Three managing directors at BMO Capital Markets are moving over to Mizuho in an effort to build out the Japanese bank’s power, utilities and infrastructure business in the Americas.
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Norton Rose Fulbright has promoted Doug Buchanan to the title of global head of infrastructure and resources.
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A senior vice president in CoBank’s power, energy and utilities division has joined a North Dakota-based electric cooperative as CEO and general manager.
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Residential solar finance company and securitization issuer Mosaic has hired a pair of C-suite finance executives.
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An infrastructure and power finance banker has left Nomura to join investment management firm DoubleLine Group.
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Blackstone has appointed Brian Tierney as a senior managing director and global head of infrastructure portfolio operations and asset management.
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Solar and energy storage developer 8minute Solar Energy has hired a new general counsel from FuelCell Energy.
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FirstEnergy Corp has hired a new vice president and chief risk officer, a day after announcing that it had struck a three-year deferred prosecution agreement relating to a high-profile bribery case in Ohio.
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The Carlyle Group has launched a new portfolio company to develop 7 GW of renewables projects with over 3 GWh of battery storage capacity in the US over the coming years.
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Cubico Sustainable Investments has appointed a US head of originations and executions after the incumbent moved to the UK earlier this year to head a newly launched renewables investment platform.
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US-based energy storage developer Plus Power has hired a CFO who is joining from solar developer 8minute.
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Southwestern Energy has appointed a new CFO, following the passing of the company’s previous CFO, Julian Bott, in January.
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Queensland Investment Corp (QIC) has bolstered its private debt capabilities with a string of executive hires, including a head of private debt and infrastructure in New York.
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A former managing director in Citi's Global Power Group has taken up a new role as CFO at Boulder, Colorado-headquartered Scout Clean Energy.
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Orion Energy Partners has hired two managing directors from Goldman Sachs and a vice president from Energy Impact Partners (EIP).
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One of the three founding partners at San Francisco-based Lacuna Sustainable Investments has left the firm to launch his own investment company, which will target development-stage renewable energy projects in the US and Canada.
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A former Bracewell attorney who has worked at the US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) since 2014, most recently as legal lead adviser to commissioner Neil Chatterjee, has returned to the law firm.
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Shearman & Sterling has promoted a Latin America renewables-focused lawyer to counsel amid a wave of promotions within the firm.
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The Latin American development bank CAF has elected a new president.
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Spanish developer Fotowatio Renewable Ventures (FRV) has promoted a senior financier to the role of managing director, overseeing Mexico and Central America.
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Antin Infrastructure Partners has recruited three investment relations professionals in New York, reporting to head of North American investor relations, Matt Nelson.
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Family-owned investment company Pacolet Milliken has hired a senior vice president from Cubico Sustainable Investments, who is also an alum of Goldman Sachs' power, utility and clean technology investment banking group.
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Herbert Smith Freehills (HSF) has appointed Edward Dougherty as co-head of its Latin America practice.
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Solar and energy storage developer Community Energy has expanded its team with the addition of six senior structured finance, origination, development and legal counsel hires.
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Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP) has recruited a managing director in New York from EIG Global Energy Partners.
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Santander's former head of structured finance in Mexico City is moving to Miami for a new role at a project finance lender and advisory firm.
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Ember Infrastructure has appointed two vice presidents who are joining the firm from Global Infrastructure Partners (GIP).
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New York-based Crayhill Capital Management has launched a renewable energy equity investment platform and appointed two Silicon Ranch Corp financiers to lead it.
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Jon Yellen, the former head of power and infrastructure project finance at Mizuho Bank, has joined a fossil fuel industry group as an investment director.
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Antin Infrastructure Partners has appointed Chris Slavin as principal of investor relations based in New York.
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Three senior executives at Kayne Anderson Capital Advisors have left the firm to launch a renewables investment platform, and are planning to take a North Carolina solar project with them.
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KKR & Co has agreed to develop and finance clean energy projects in the US under a partnership with Crossover Energy Partners, a renewables advisory set up by former staffers of Capital Dynamics-backed power marketing and development firm Arevon Energy Management.
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Société Générale has hired a director of energy and project finance in New York from Allianz Global Investors.
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Spanish infrastructure firm and engineering, procurement and construction contractor Obrascón Huarte Lain (OHL) has rebranded as OHLA as it commemorates its 110th anniversary after a long path of restructurings.
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HSBC is in the midst of restructuring its US operations, resulting in the departures of four senior bankers in New York.
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A vice president at CohnReznick Capital has joined the renewables project finance team at a Canadian investment bank.
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Two vice presidents in Goldman Sachs' renewable power group have headed to a Morgan Stanley-backed impact investment platform, where they will lead a new renewables investment division.
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McGuireWoods has recruited an M&A partner in Houston who previously held senior roles at power and renewables project developers such as NRG Energy and Panda Power Funds.
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Aypa Power, which was previously known as Canadian energy storage platform NRstor C&I before it was bought and rebranded by Blackstone Energy Partners in 2020, has recruited an M&A director from AES Corp.
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Paul Hastings has launched an energy transition and infrastructure team which will be based in Houston and New York.
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Ecuador's Ministry of Energy and Non-renewable Natural Resources, which is led by minister Juan Carlos Bermeo, has appointed a deputy minister for power and renewables.
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Law firm O’Melveny has hired four energy-focused attorneys from Thompson & Knight as it looks to expand its footprint in Texas.
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Citigroup's global co-head of infrastructure has left the firm for an opportunity at Antin Infrastructure Partners.
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Leeward Renewable Energy has hired a chief operating officer from a Canadian gas distribution company.
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Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has recruited a managing director from BlackRock to lead a newly launched team that is focused on investment strategies in renewable power and industrial decarbonization.
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A managing director in Crédit Agricole's project finance team, who has spent over a decade at the bank, has left for an opportunity at another bank.
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A Blackstone Credit portfolio company has appointed a CEO who last worked at The Carlyle Group's subsidiary Cogentrix Energy Power Management.
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A principal at Capital Dynamics has joined an infrastructure start-up that is backed by Google's parent company, Alphabet as well as the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan.
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Actis has promoted two directors to partner within its global energy infrastructure team.
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CoBank's recently appointed head of project finance, who succeeded Brian Goldstein in April, has left the bank.
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Greenberg Traurig has appointed a global co-head of its energy project finance practice in Washington, DC.
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Laura Beane, the former president and CEO of Avangrid Renewables who joined Engie North America as chief renewables officer last year, has left the company for a new opportunity.
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Orrick has recruited a tax attorney from Kirkland & Ellis as it expands its renewable energy finance practice.
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Citi's former North American head of commodities finance and credit solutions is taking up a new role at a Durham, North Carolina-based holding company focused on the energy transition.
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A director in Bank of America's Global Sustainable Finance Group and a vice president at Orion Energy Partners have joined the energy team at Blackstone Credit.
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Hull Street Energy has struck a deal to acquire Foundation Solar Partners (FSP), the solar development firm set up by three former Cypress Creek Renewables officials two years ago.
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David Daly, the president of New Jersey's largest electric utility, Public Service Electric & Gas (PSE&G), is retiring at the end of this year.
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Capital Dynamics has hired a director from NextEra Energy Resources.
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The Department of Energy's Loan Programs Office has recruited a senior financier from Standard Solar.
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Blackstone Energy Partners has appointed a senior adviser from engineering and construction firm Bechtel.
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Washington-based electric utility Puget Sound Energy is preparing to hire a new CFO from another electric utility, and who had previously spent 20 years at AES Corp.
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Sidley Austin has hired a veteran tax partner focused on renewable energy and infrastructure projects.
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EnCap Investments-backed utility-scale solar developer Solar Proponent has hired a new chief operating officer who previously worked at First Solar.
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A boutique West Coast law firm has recruited six attorneys and a chief operating officer from a range of rival law firms, an electric utility and a solar panel manufacturer.
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CoBank's former head of project finance, Brian Goldstein, has joined the Loans Programs Office (LPO) at the US Department of Energy (DOE).
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Don Marchand, the executive vice president and CFO of Canadian pipeline operator TC Energy, is retiring after 27 years with the company.
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547 Energy, a renewable and clean energy investment portfolio company of Quantum Energy Partners, has hired a managing director from EDP Renewables.
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McGuireWoods has recruited three renewable energy project finance and private equity attorneys from DLA Piper.
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Brazil's national development bank BNDES has announced that an auction will take place on June 18 for Companhia de Eletricidade do Amapá (CEA), an energy distributor in the country's northern Amapa State.
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Los Angeles-based investment bank Houlihan Lokey has appointed a new co-head to lead its Power & Utilities Group.
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Leyline Renewable Capital has hired two senior project finance professionals from NordLB and EDP Renewables, amid the departure of a PF director from the firm.
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Onyx Renewable Partners has hired a project finance vice president who previously worked at True Green Capital Management.
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Commercial and industrial-scale solar developer Altus Power has appointed a new chief legal officer.
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Citi has formed a new investment banking group focused on the clean energy transition and appointed two senior bankers to lead it, according to an internal memo seen by PFR.
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Ben Fowke, who has served as Xcel Energy's chaiman and CEO for over a decade, is retiring on August 18.
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Rubicon Capital Advisors' former managing director and general counsel, Sonia McMillan, has joined a specialist infrastructure fund manager in New York.
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Robert Sternthal, the former head of North America at Rubicon Capital Advisors, has re-emerged in a new role at an investment bank that is planning to staff up its renewables team and expand its coverage of the sector.
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Ørsted’s head of mergers and acquisitions in the US has left for a new role at Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners.
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The CFO of battery storage developer and independent power producer Key Capture Energy has left the firm, and a senior investment banker has been brought in to act as interim CFO.
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Cypress Creek Renewables' associate general counsel, Jaya Velamakanni, has left the company to start her own private practice.
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Law firm Baker Donelson has recruited a veteran energy and infrastructure project finance attorney with nearly 30 years of experience to lead its energy transactions team.
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NRG Energy has hired its new chief financial officer from South Korean e-commerce company Coupang.
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A senior director who recently left NordLB after a decade working in the firm's project finance practice has joined DNB Bank.
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Ex-Goldman Sachs managing director Jean-Pierre Boudrias and ex-Macquarie Capital managing director Ross Warner ?have teamed up to launch their own hydrogen energy storage business.
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Brazilian state-controlled Eletrobras has appointed former ANEEL director Rodrigo Limp Nascimento as CEO, effective May 7.
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Insurance brokerage firm CAC Specialty is rapidly expanding its Natural Resources division with a series of high-level hires, including two from Beecher Carlson.
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KeyBanc Capital Markets has hired six renewables investment bankers from a regional bank to join its San Francisco-based utilities, power and renewables team.
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A senior managing director at Evercore has left for a new opportunity at Moelis & Co.
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A senior director who had worked in NordLB's project finance practice for over a decade has left the bank.
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First Sentier Investors has appointed Chris Tehranian as a senior director in New York.
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A senior banker has left Investec's power and infrastructure team in New York for a new opportunity.
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A senior finance official at Nephila Climate has left the firm – the latest in a series of high-level executive departures in recent weeks.
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Strata Clean Energy (formerly Strata Solar) has appointed a new CFO from within its own ranks, after the incumbent joined another developer earlier this month.
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A senior executive at solar developer Hive Energy has left, as the firm prepares to exit the Mexican market.
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A senior managing director at Truist, who had previously spent more than a decade in the energy group at Credit Suisse, has left the bank.
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AES Gener, the Chilean subsidiary of AES Corp, has rebranded as AES Andes as it continues to amp up its focus on renewable generation.
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Georgia Transmission Corp has named Dustin Zubke as its new senior vice president and CFO.
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Investec has launched a secondary trading desk and recruited a senior secondary loan trader in New York to lead it.
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Matrix Renewables, a portfolio company of private equity firm TPG, has appointed Luis Sabaté as chief operating officer, as the company continues to expand into Latin America.
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CoBank has appointed a new head of project finance, succeeding Brian Goldstein who left the bank earlier this month.
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Colombia's Empresas Públicas de Medellín appointed Jorge Andres Carillo as its general manager on April 13, making him the third person to hold the job in little more than a week as internal strife flares up at the city-owned energy company.
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Capital Dynamics has recruited a senior finance official from AES Clean Energy as it looks to rebuild its clean energy infrastructure team.
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Global Energy Generation, a US renewable energy developer established in 2019, has hired long-time Tyr Energy staffer Ignacio Ibarguren as vice president of M&A and finance.
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Utility-scale solar and battery storage developer Strata Solar has renamed itself Strata Clean Energy.
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SMBC has appointed Juan Kreutz and Luis Fernando Perdigon as co-heads of specialized finance, a division which aggregates several businesses for the bank's North America and Latin America regions, including project finance, US private placements and financing for clients in Asia.
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Colombia's Empresas Públicas de Medellín has selected a new general manager, who will be the third person to hold the job in little more than a week, as internal strife flares up at the city-owned energy company.
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Bracewell has appointed energy attorneys Frank Lee and Ted Duver as partners in its corporate and securities team in New York.
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Rubicon Capital Advisors has hired Tony Memmo as managing director and Owen Weihman as director in New York.
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The general manager of Colombia's Empresas Públicas de Medellín has quit after a week at the position.
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Latin America-focused power, utilities and project finance banker Ivan Oliveros has joined Miami-based advisory firm Atlantico Capital Partners as a partner in New York.
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Trafigura Group announced on April 9 that it will launch its first carbon trading desk, led by Hannah Hauman, further expanding the scope of its trading activities.
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Troutman Pepper has hired Judy Kwok, a tax lawyer focusing on renewable energy finance who used to work in-house at GE Energy Financial Services, from Mintz Levin.
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New England utility Eversource Energy has appointed a new president and CEO from within its own ranks to replace Jim Judge, who is stepping back to become executive chairman, effective May 5.
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Dentons has hired Luis Torres from Latham & Watkins as a partner in its energy practice in Washington, DC.
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Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has set up a new platform that combines its power and sustainable energy group with its energy resources group.
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Peruvian power supplier Atria Energia has hired former Vestas official Mario Pávez as the new general manager of its Chilean office.
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Avenue Capital Partners has hired a new portfolio manager for its sustainable solutions credit fund following the departure of the previous PM in January.
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Brian Goldstein, who was sector vice president and head of project finance at CoBank for six years, is no longer with the firm.
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A former head of power and utilities lending at RBC Capital Markets is among a trio of high-level hires announced by US solar developer Sol Systems on April 6.
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Intersect Power has made a raft of new hires to help build out its next 2.4 GW portfolio by 2023.
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Voltalia Brazil has appointed a new CFO as the incumbent departs to spearhead the growth of its distributed generation subsidiary Helexia as its local CEO.
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DNB Bank has named Emilio Fabbrizzi as head of Americas renewables and infrastructure as it expands its coverage of the region.
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Thomas Farrell, the former CEO of Dominion Energy, has passed away after a battle with cancer took a sudden turn.
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Canadian developer Greengate Power Corp has hired former AltaGas director of power finance Scott Perry as a business development executive in Calgary.
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A successor has been found for SunPower CEO Tom Werner, who is retiring after 18 years with the company.
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Jennifer Wnek has joined Allen & Overy’s projects, energy, natural resources and infrastructure practice as a partner in New York, joining six Akin Gump partners who officially made the move at the beginning of March.
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Ørsted has brought in Ben Pratt, a former senior managing director for power origination and trading at Uniper Global Commodities North America, to oversee its Chicago-based US energy trading team.
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Utility-scale solar and storage developer Candela Renewables, which was originally set up in 2018, has made three new hires, including a director of finance.
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A former managing director at Rubicon Capital Advisors has taken up a C-suite position at BrightNight, the renewable energy business set up by ex-8minute Energy CEO Martin Hermann, and which was featured in documentary produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Three members of BlackRock’s infrastructure credit group have left the firm for The Carlyle Group in New York.
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CCA Group has added to its renewable energy advisory team with a senior hire from MUFG's leasing and asset finance division.
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Kirkland & Ellis has hired a senior tax attorney from Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe as it builds up its renewable energy finance practice.
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LS Power subsidiary CPower Energy Management has made six new hires as it looks to strengthen its position in the distributed energy resources (DER) market.
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Chicago-headquartered investment bank Marathon Capital is planning to open a new office in Latin America this year, after opening a UK outpost in January.
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Luiz Carranza Ugarte has announced that he will step down as president of the Latin America development bank CAF on April 23.
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Pennsylvania-based PPL Corp has appointed an alumnus of both FirstEnergy Corp and Exelon Corp as general counsel and corporate secretary.
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FirstEnergy Corp has filled its vacancy for a chief ethics and compliance officer with a hire from another utility holding company as it seeks to disentangle itself from a long-running bribery scandal in Ohio.
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IDB Invest has appointed Orlando Ferreira and Alexandre Meira da Rosa as CFO and chief strategy officer, respectively.
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Generate Capital has hired Alfred Griffin, the founding president of NY Green Bank, to oversee its new sustainable infrastructure credit platform as senior managing director.
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Carl Icahn's activist fund Icahn Capital has secured two seats on FirstEnergy's board of directors, weeks after declaring its intention to acquire a stake in the beleagured Ohio electric utility.
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The development finance institution FinDev Canada, previously known as Development Finance Institute Canada, has appointed infrastructure finance expert Lori Kerr as its new CEO, replacing the interim CEO Ken Kember.
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Madrid-based developer EDP Renováveis has hired Felipe de Gamboa as its new country manager in Colombia.
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Ridgewood Infrastructure has formed a new joint venture with Sustainability Partners to own sustainable water, energy efficiency, transportation, communications and other infrastructure in the US.
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The International Finance Corporation has appointed Juan Gonzalo Flores as country manager for Mexico.
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Gas pipeline company Kinder Morgan has formed a new division called Energy Transition Ventures to identify, analyze and pursue commercial opportunities in the low-carbon energy transition.
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BlackRock managing director Cathleen Ellsworth, who was co-head of global energy and power infrastructure fundraising and investor relations, has left for a new opportunity.
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Wilmington Trust has appointed Abby Mrozinski as head of global capital markets, replacing Jack Beeson, who is retiring after 38 years with the company.
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Peruvian power supplier Atria Energia has hired former Luz del Sur official Alcibiades Rojas as an operational manager in Peru.
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Paul Dobson, the former CFO and interim CEO of Canada's Hydro One, has landed a new C-suite role at a fuel cell company.
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Albert Luu, who worked in capital markets at SolarCity and Tesla for many years, has landed a CFO role at another residential solar company, Complete Solar.
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Spanish law firm Cuatrecasas has snagged energy lawyer Fabio Ardila from competitor Gómez-Pinzón to work from the Bogota office in Colombia.
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The Chilean subsidiary of AES Corp, AES Gener, has appointed Ignacio Lis as commercial director, responsible for developing its renewable energy strategy.
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FirstEnergy Corp has appointed Steven Strah as its new CEO, effective immediately.
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Power Finance & Risk is pleased to announce that nominations are now open for its 18th Annual Deals and Firms of the Year Awards.
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The Argentinian developer Genneia has appointed Bernardo Andrews as its new CEO, replacing the incumbent who had led the firm for almost a decade.
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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has appointed SunEdison and Generate Capital founder Jigar Shah to the top job in its Loans Programs Office (LPO).
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FTI Consulting has added to its power and renewable energy advisory practice in San Francisco with the hiring of former Citi banker Miriam Wrobel as a senior managing director.
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Investec has expanded its power and infrastructure team in New York with the addition of a senior banker who is an alum of First Reserve and Credit Suisse.
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Akin Gump’s project finance and renewables practice has relocated en masse to Allen & Overy, greatly expanding the British firm’s presence in the US, which will include an office on the West Coast for the first time.
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Law firm Latham & Watkins has elected two energy-focused attorneys to the partnership in the US, starting this month.
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Investec has appointed Ralph Cho and Michael Pantelogianis as global co-heads of its power and infrastructure finance group.
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Goldman Sachs managing director Jean-Pierre Boudrias, who led the investment bank's North American project finance desk, has left the firm after almost eight years.
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Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro has fired the president of state-owned oil company Petrobras, Roberto Castello Branco, owing to a disagreement over fuel pricing policy.
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Macquarie Capital has launched a platform to develop, own and operate liquified natural gas, regasification and power assets in Latin America as well as Asia.
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Kirkland & Ellis has hired a partner in its debt finance practice in New York from a rival law firm.
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People's United Bank has launched a new utilities, power and renewable energy franchise to be led by a hire from another regional lender.
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Orrick has promoted two energy and infrastructure lawyers to partner.
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The World Bank has appointed Makhtar Diop as managing director and executive vice president to head the International Finance Corp effective March 2021.
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Swiss private bank Lombard Odier has made two senior hires in the US to help cultivate sustainable private credit strategies.
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Regional law firm BLP Legal has promoted an energy lawyer to partner, reinforcing its infrastructure and finance coverage in Central America.
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Dallas-based oil and gas pipeline company Energy Transfer has established a new group aimed at developing alternative energy projects.
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Enel Green Power has appointed Bruno Riga as its new country manager in Mexico, replacing Paolo Romanacci, who had held the position since 2016.
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Northwestern Energy, a utility serving South Dakota, Nebraska and Montana, has appointed a new chief operating officer and CFO.
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Tampa Electric, one of Florida's largest investor-owned utilities, has appointed a successor to president and CEO Nancy Towers, who is retiring at the end of June.
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Winston & Strawn has formed a fully integrated energy & infrastructure industry group that will be led by partners Mike Blankenship, Mike Pikiel and Rich Shutran.
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The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has appointed Martin Spicer as its new director for Latin America and the Caribbean, following a more than 20-year-long career with the institution.
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Shearman & Sterling has hired Gabriel Salinas to advise on private equity deals related to the energy sector in Latin America.
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Riverstone Holdings' managing director and co-head of power and renewables, Carl Williams, has left the firm after nearly 13 years.
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TransAlta's chief operating officer, John Kousinioris, who is also president of TransAlta Renewables, will take the top job and will join the board of TransAlta on April 1.
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An official has left NextEra Energy after 14 years with the company for a new role at a renewables developer based in San Francisco.
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NRG Energy's CFO Kirkland Andrews has stepped down from his role and is headed to Evergy where he will take up the same title.
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Vinson & Elkins has recruited six lawyers from a rival firm to boost its renewable and sustainable energy and tax practices.
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Citi has appointed Shikher Bisaria as its new head of Northeast power trading in Houston.
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A trio of senior officials have left Capital Dynamics' energy infrastructure business to join a large private equity firm, where they will be focusing on renewable energy.
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Spanish law firm Cuatrecasas has brought in a project finance lawyer from a rival firm as part of efforts to build its franchise in Colombia.
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Starwood Infrastructure Finance's former head of syndications and capital markets has started in a new role at a project finance lender in New York.
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The Inter-American Development Bank has promoted Gustavo De Rosa to vice president for finance and administration after almost ten years at the DFI.
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German developer PNE has acquired four solar projects in the US and expanded its wind and solar development team in the country.
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Ecuador’s law firm Pérez Bustamante & Ponce (PBP) has added Sebastian Cortez as a new partner to the firm, focused on energy and natural resources, infrastructure, projects, corporate law and environmental issues.
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The development finance institution IDB Invest has promoted a staffer to oversee energy and infrastructure investments in the Andean region.
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Wilson Ferreira Junior is to lead BR Distribuidora after announcing over the weekend that he is resigning as chief executive of Eletrobras.
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Wilson Ferreira Jr, CEO of Eletrobras, has announced that he is leaving the company for “personal reasons."
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LNG project developer NextDecade Corp has named Brent Wahl as its new CFO, effective February 1.
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Greenbacker Capital Management has added to the senior capital raising and origination team of its recently established middle-market fund.
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The Carlyle Group has hired an official who previously worked in project finance and capital markets at Clearway Energy Group to its renewables and sustainable energy team.
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Chile's National Federation of Power Co-ops has appointed Patricio Molina as its new general manager.
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Morgan Stanley has appointed a new head of North American power and gas trading as well as two regional heads of power origination.
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Latham & Watkins has hired two senior attorneys from Clifford Chance to lead its Latin American energy and infrastructure division out of New York.
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Macquarie Capital has hired a project finance and development official who previously oversaw Latin American energy investments at Sempra Energy in New York.
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Credit Suisse has promoted its head of North America renewables in New York to a new global position overseeing investment banking in renewables and sustainable energy technology.
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Excelsior Energy Capital has closed its first fund, Excelsior Renewable Energy Investment Fund I, with capital commitments of $504 million.
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A Boston-based investment holding company that specializes in financial services companies has taken a stake in US renewable energy investor Greenbacker Group.
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Nordex has selected a new CFO to replace the incumbent Christoph Burkhard, who had held the position since October of 2016.
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Evergy's CFO Tony Somma is retiring after 27 years with the company and its predecessor, Westar Energy.
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Richard Grosdidier – whose solar finance career has included stints at NextEra Energy, NRG Energy, Innogy Renewables and Sunfinity Renewables – has turned to microgrids for his next challenge.
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Chicago-based investment bank Marathon Capital has established an outpost in Europe for the first time with a senior hire from Moelis & Co in London.
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Texas utility CenterPoint Energy has added former Calpine Corp and Talen Energy treasurer Stacey Peterson and investment banker Philip Holder to its senior finance team.
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German asset manager MPC Capital has launched a renewable energy platform called MPC Energy Solutions, with capital raised through an equity placement.
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Brazil’s law firm Cescon Barrieu has appointed six partners located in its São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro and Belo Horizonte offices, with one dedicated to the energy sector.
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US Secretary of Energy Dan Brouillette has announced that John Hairston will stay on as administrator and CEO of the Bonneville Power Administration, a position he has held on an acting basis since September 2020.
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Hannon Armstrong Sustainable Infrastructure Capital (HASI) has tweaked the roles of several of its senior officials as former CFO Brandan Herron transitions to an advisory role.
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Duke Energy has named Jack Sullivan vice president of investor relations, succeeding Bryan Buckler, who recently left the company for another career opportunity.
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Southwestern Energy Co's executive vice president and CFO Julian Bott passed away on January 3. He was 57.
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Starwood Energy Group Global has recruited Jeffrey Levy, the former general counsel of Atlantic Power Corp, as deputy general counsel and managing director.
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FirstEnergy Corp has appointed long-time PG&E Corp general counsel Hyun Park as its new senior vice president and chief legal officer, effective January 11.
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Spanish law firm Cuatrecasas, pursuing growth in Latin America, has hired nine partners in Chile, Mexico, and Colombia, three of whom will work on deals in the energy sector.
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German developer PNE has appointed Karl Dahlstrom as CEO of its US subsidiary following the retirement of Ron Flax-Davidson at the end of 2020.
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FTI Consulting has hired a structured finance executive from Banco Sabadell to lead the firm's corporate finance and restructuring division.
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Karen Wong, a Los Angeles-based partner in Milbank's global project, energy and infrastructure finance group with over three decades of legal experience, has retired.
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An Enel Green Power executive has been chosen to become Enel Generación Chile’s general manager after the previous staffer resigned.
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The founder of Brazil's Renova Energia has sold his shares to his partner and is leaving the company.
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Nautilus Solar Energy has appointed a new general counsel who previously worked at Akin Gump.
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German utility Uniper has appointed a new North American head of power and gas trading.
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Law firm DLA Piper has recruited a Latin America-focused partner from Baker McKenzie to take up the title of regional head of banking and finance.
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Paris-based infrastructure investor Ardian has hired a managing director in New York.
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Vesper Energy, the renewables developer that Magnetar Capital recently bought and rebranded, has brought in a new CFO.
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Michael Gee, a senior managing director who recently left CoBank's project finance team in Denver, has surfaced in a new role.
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Restructuring advisory firm AlixPartners has boosted its power sector practice with the addition of Paul Barry and Faisel Hussein as managing directors from Alvarez & Marsal in New York.
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AES Corp has promoted the head of its Brazilian subsidiary to a new regional role and filled his place with another elevation from within.
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Irish developer Mainstream Renewable Power has hired a seasoned executive to fill the newly created CFO position for Latin America after several years of growth for the company in the region.
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A trio of investors led by EnCap Investments has acquired a stake in a newly formed solar developer based in Texas.
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Residential solar finance company and securitization issuer Mosaic has refreshed its leadership team, with the appointment of a new CFO as well as a deputy chief credit officer and general counsel.
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Peruvian power supplier Atria Energia has hired Natacha Patiño as a commercial manager in Peru.
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Morgan Stanley's former global head of commodities trading is set to join Citadel.
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Offshore wind developer US Wind has hired former Deepwater Wind boss Jeff Grybowski as its new CEO.
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Georgia Power's CFO has switched roles with the CFO of Southern Company Gas.
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A former Lehman Brothers and Barclays investment banker has joined Global Infrastructure Partners as a managing director in New York.
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Chicago-based developer Invenergy has hired a vice president to act as the company's country manager for Mexico.
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AES Corp has changed the name of its Brazilian subsidiary from AES Tietê to AES Brasil after solidifying its grip on the company earlier this year.
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Jorge Andres Tabares has left Empresas Públicas de Medellín after five years of managing its finances as executive vice president of finance and investments.
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Holland & Knight has hired two senior attorneys from rival firms and appointed one of them as chair of its energy and infrastructure M&A and finance team.
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California's Pacific Gas & Electric Corp has selected Patti Poppe as its new CEO. She will be relocating to San Francisco at the end of the year from Jackson, Michigan, where she is currently chief executive of CMS Energy Corp.
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Australia's Lendlease has sold its US renewable energy business to hedge fund manager Magnetar Capital, which has rebranded the new portfolio company Vesper Energy.
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Jason Allen has been appointed CEO of OMERS Infrastructure-owned developer Leeward Renewable Energy.
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Peruvian power supplier Atria Energia has hired Mauricio Caamaño as managing director in Chile.
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Mayer Brown has expanded its projects and infrastructure practice with the addition of a team of attorneys from Hunton Andrews Kurth.
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Renewable energy developer Apex Clean Energy has hired a former investment banker in a finance role.
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Latin America-focused financier Ivan Oliveros is leaving Jefferies after working at the firm for two-and-a-half years.
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Two top legal officers have departed from FirstEnergy Corp as a high-profile bribery investigation involving Ohio's House Speaker continues.
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Capital Dynamics-backed power marketing and development firm Arevon Energy Management has appointed a new CEO.
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First Sentier Investors has promoted several members of its direct infrastructure team, including its head of North American infrastructure.
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A banker with experience in power and commodities structured finance has taken a project finance role at the New York Power Authority.
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Solar and energy storage EPC contractor i1 Energy has appointed a former senior originator of distributed generation projects for NextEra Energy Resources as its president.
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Portland General Electric is bringing in Jim Ajello as its new CFO as an internal investigation into recent trading losses rumbles on.
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Citi's North American head of power trading, Naveen Arora, has left the firm after more than 10 years.
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A managing director in Macquarie Capital's debt capital markets team in New York and another in the Houston commodities team have left the firm.
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Energy Impact Partners has hired a former Goldman Sachs banker as a principal in its New York office.
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Thomas Brostrøm, the former chief executive of Ørsted’s North American offshore wind division, is preparing to take the helm of Shell’s global renewable generation team next year.
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American Electric Power has appointed a new CFO to replace Brian Tierney, who is moving into another senior role, as well as a new chief operating officer.
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East West Bank has hired a seasoned power and utilities investment banker in Dallas to act as a relationship manager for its project finance business.
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John Bridge has been promoted to partner in McDermott Will & Emery's energy practice.
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Project finance lawyer David Penna has rejoined Latham & Watkins as a partner after a year with the US International Development Finance Corporation.
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Utility holding company FirstEnergy Corp has fired its CEO and two other senior officials amid a high-profile bribery investigation in Ohio, shortly after guilty pleas were entered in federal court by two people who are not FirstEnergy employees.
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Latham & Watkins has elevated one US-based project finance attorney to partner and another to counsel in its latest round of promotions.
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Australian asset manager AMP Capital has confirmed that it has received a non-binding public takeover offer from Ares Management Corp.
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Cypress Creek Renewables alumni Evan Riley and Michael Kremer have teamed up with CalCom Energy's Dylan Dupre to launch a US solar developer called White Pine Renewables.
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Ørsted has hired a senior staffer from GE Energy Financial Services in New York to oversee finance, business development and M&A for US onshore renewables.
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DIF Infrastructure VI has reached a €3.03 billion ($3.5bn) final close after increasing its hard cap.
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New Fortress Energy has invested in H2Pro, an Israeli green hydrogen technology startup which is planning a pilot project in the US.
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When Engie and EDP Renováveis christened their offshore wind joint venture Ocean Winds, you could be forgiven for assuming that it had taken about 10 seconds to come up with the name. But in the branding world, nothing is that simple.
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David Hardy has been appointed CEO of Ørsted Offshore North America, replacing Thomas Brostrøm, who is relocating to Europe.
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Canadian power producer Boralex has named its replacement for president and CEO Patrick Lemaire, who is retiring at the end of this year.
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Michael Streams has left his position as head of legal at Nautilus Solar to take a job as chief development officer at Standard Solar in Los Angeles.
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Fluence, the energy storage company backed by Siemens and AES Corp, has acquired Advanced Microgrid Solutions' artificial intelligence-based microgrid software platform.
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Highview Power, which is developing the first long-duration liquid air energy storage (LAES) project in the US, has named Nomi Ahmad as its new CFO, effective January 1, 2021.
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Matt Ransweiler has left his position as senior vice president of finance at Blackstone portfolio company Onyx Renewable Partners for a job at Osaka Gas in New York.
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National Grid has rebranded Geronimo Energy, the wind and solar developer it acquired last year, as National Grid Renewables.
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US independent power producer Beowulf Energy has reached a deal with a Bitcoin mining company as part of its plans to build a cryptocurrency hub at the site of a coal-fired plant in Montana.
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Lima-based renewables developer Atria Energia has promoted Fernando Vega to executive director, alongside Guillermo Cox, who has held the same position since 2019.
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Kristina Peterson, a former banker who spent several years at Brookfield Renewable Partners, has left the Canadian firm for a role at a transaction software company.
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An M&A staffer at Macquarie Capital has left the firm to take up a new job at 547 Energy, a renewable and clean energy investment portfolio company of Quantum Energy Partners.
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Bond-focused fund manager Pacific Investment Management Co (PIMCO) is the latest sponsor to back a low carbon blank check company, with former NRG Energy leader David Crane as chief executive.
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Trent Kososki, who was until recently a partner at Energy Capital Partners, has joined Stonepeak Infrastructure Partners as a managing director in Houston.
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Edward Veras has been appointed to replace Angel Canó as executive director of the Dominican Republic’s National Commission on Energy.
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White & Case has promoted two US attorneys in its global project development and finance practice to the partnership.
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John Garvey has left is position as managing director in engineering consultancy Leidos' asset transaction services division after five years with the company.
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Quinbrook Infrastructure Partners has appointed Dawn Turner to its investment manager advisory board to bring in an investor's view on environmental, social and governance considerations.
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Catherine MacGregor is set to take over as CEO of Engie in the new year, filling the gap left by the ouster of Isabelle Kocher in February.
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True Green Capital Management's director of deal development and execution, Nicholas Minekime, has taken up a senior position at Altus Power America.
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A senior project finance official has left solar developer Recurrent Energy for a new job at private equity fund manager ArcLight Capital Partners.
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Siemens and Macquarie have formed a joint venture called Calibrant Energy to provide on-site energy services to corporations, municipalities, schools, hospitals and other customers.
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Paul Colatrella, who departed from Capital Dynamics earlier this year, has secured a new job originating infrastructure debt investments at Fiera Private Debt.
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Jonathan Silver, who ran the US Department of Energy's loan program before setting up a boutique financial advisory firm focused on tax equity, has joined Guggenheim Securities as a senior adviser.
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