US battery storage developer Spearmint Energy has further expanded its team with the appointment of four energy industry professionals with experience across project finance, technology, execution, and data science.
Chris Wright, Senior Vice President of Project Technology, brings more than 15 years of experience in renewable energy, most recently working for E3 Consulting.
He has held several positions across wind, solar and energy storage projects at companies including Clean Energy Associates, Black & McDonald, and NextEra Energy Resources, among others.
He has supporting over 850MW of solar, 300MW of wind and over 1.5GWh of energy storage projects globally.
Jeff Jackson, Senior Vice President of Project Execution, brings nearly 15 years of industry knowledge working across renewables and data centre site development, project implementation and strategic partnerships.
He most recently served as Vice President of Site Development for Compute North, as well as in prior positions at Mortenson, RES Group, and EDF Renewables.
Nicolas Cottely, Vice President of Project Finance, has more than a decade of experience executing project finance transactions, most recently serving as an investment manager at Origis Energy.
Allen Yu, Data Scientist, has more than two decades of electrical engineering, power market analysis, operations, and trading experience, most recently serving as a trader and analyst for XO Energy.
He has also held engineering roles at the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), and the Qingdao Municipal Power Supply Bureau in Qingdao, China.
Andrew Waranch, Founder, President, and Chief Executive Officer of Spearmint, said, “We launched Spearmint with the goal of accelerating the delivery of stable, inexpensive, renewable energy to the power grid and are extremely proud of the significant progress we have made in pursuit of this goal over the last seven months.
“We have worked hard to build a workplace environment that promotes integrity, innovation, and collaboration, comprised of a mix of talent across research, trading, development, and project finance.
“We are pleased to welcome Chris, Jeff, Nicolas, and Allen to Spearmint, and look forward to continuing to build upon our team growth and transaction momentum in the year ahead.”