Solarplaza Summit | Asset Management Texas

Michael Eyman leverages over 25 years of leadership, operations, and business experience in his role as Managing Director, Origis Services. Under his leadership, Origis Services, a wholly owned subsidiary of Origis, manages a growing portfolio of utility scale and distributed generation solar and storage assets across the United States. Prior to joining Origis, Mr. Eyman served as the Vice President of Business Development for MaxGen Energy Services, where he drove significant growth across the distributed generation and utility markets. He also held positions as Director DG O&M and Director of Business Development and Senior Manager for Supply Chain Strategy over 5 years with SunPower. Before taking solar industry leadership roles, Mr. Eyman had a 21-year career in the United States Navy as a Naval Aviator. He served in multiple theaters over 13 deployments and retired at the rank of Commander. He holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Texas, a Master of Science in Military Strategy and Foreign Affairs, from Air University, and a Bachelor of Science in Oceanography from Texas A&M University.

Kelsey Bobrinskoy, Senior Director of O&M Account Management at Cypress Creek Renewables, heads O&M business operations and account management for their third-party portfolio of over 2GW spanning six ISOs. Since joining Cypress Creek in 2019, she has played an integral role in growing and developing third-party services, leading to 330% growth in the past three years. Prior to Cypress Creek, Kelsey was an Asset Manager with Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary Canadian Solar. There she managed a diverse portfolio of utility-scale and DG solar projects, overseeing management, contracts, and counterparty relationships for an international portfolio with an owners mindset. She has also conducted research for US Army Corps of Engineers on hydrogen fuel cells and distributed generation renewable energy projects.

Reegan has worked for 28 years in the energy, telecommunications and retail industries, overseeing national teams offering high-growth products and services to traditional markets and P&L responsibilities. From start-ups to Fortune 500 firms, his specialty is enhancing client relationships and securing new business. Prior to joining SOLV Energy, Reegan secured EPC work for more than 100 MW of solar projects for Intermountain Electric, a Quanta Services company. With over ten years of experience working in solar, he adeptly identifies opportunities for SOLV Energy to provide superior service to plant owners and asset managers within his extensive industry network and has built an O&M portfolio of over 8.5 GW of solar assets in the U.S. In his role, Reegan coordinates with all members of the SOLV Energy team, from field technicians to performance analysts to engineers, to provide informed answers and solutions for clients.

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An experienced leader in the renewables industry, Sally has focused her career on ensuring the safe, reliable, and profitable operation of renewable generation projects. With a technical background in Mechanical Engineering, she has a demonstrated history of improving renewable project and fleet performance through actionable data analytics, field engineering, and operational strategy development . In her current role with Invenergy, Sally is responsible for helping owners fulfill their operational goals for their wind, solar, and storage assets.

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15+ years in renewables project development in Texas with over 1GW of projects operational. Former GM, co-owner of Cielo Wind Power (2006-2015), the largest independent wind developer in Texas. Significant experience in all aspects of renewables development and the ERCOT market. Drives development of Caprock's portfolio Board member and Committee Chair of CleanTX. Member of WRISE and TSPA.

Eric Wright is a senior research analyst with the Clean Energy Technology team at IHS Markit (now part of S&P Global) and is responsible for the North American solar photovoltaic market, with an emphasis on downstream analysis. He has a background in state-level policy analysis and project implementation and contributes to country-specific publications, project tracking, and forecasts. Previously, he has worked as an energy analyst, assessing integrated resource plans, renewable portfolio and energy efficiency standards, distributed energy projects, and impacts of utility rate cases and new plant investments on clients and utility customer classes. Mr. Wright holds a Bachelor of Science in environmental science from the University of Missouri and a Master of Science in Climate Change and Society from North Carolina State University, both in the United States.

Chris began his career in renewables in 2006 as a member of the teams at EcoFasten Solar and then at S-5 selling rooftop mounting hardware. In early 2018 he moved to Portland, Oregon to take on a role as Solar Project Manager at North Coast, a Sonepar Company. While there he coordinated solar sales efforts, designing systems for off-grid, residential and commercial systems in Oregon and Washington state. Then in 2021 Chris became the National Sales Director for Cascade Eco Minerals, a leading solar recycler. After a year in that role, Chris is now the Director of Downstream Business Development for PVEL, LLC. He and his wife, Madeline, now live in a floating home on the Multnomah Channel just outside of Portland.

Ben Knowles started his career in solar with Cypress Creek Renewables in 2017 as a Control Center Operator and then at Miller Bros. Solar where he managed the control center, onboarding and operating NERC facilities in Texas. Ben joined Radian Generation in 2020 as an asset manager, with a focus on utility scale portfolios in the ERCOT market, before moving full-time to Risk and Compliance at Radian, where he manages the NERC GO programs for 8 operational facilities in the ERCOT footprint with more on the way.

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Ian is an Experienced Vice President with a demonstrated history of working in the renewable and environment sectors. Skilled in Power Plants, Heavy Equipment, Electrical Wiring and Design, Safety Management Systems, and Construction of renewable facilities. With over 15 years of expertise in renewables from Wind, Solar and Battery, Hydro and conventional power Ian has build some of the largest ISP’s and service providers in the nation, helping them grow and support the renewable market. Ian’s current roll at Depcom is the SVP, strategic services, his focus includes expanding Depcoms current O&M services while building out new sectors for Repower, Recertification and restoration of facilities.

A native of the Panhandle, Alison left Texas 20 years ago to pursue a career in solar energy and couldn’t be happier that big solar has taken root the Lone Star State. After kick-starting her 15-year career with the German Solar Industry Association in Berlin, Alison has sold roof top solar, helped grow a US monitoring and controls provider into a global brand, took a short foray into supply chain and distribution, and is now happily focused on utility-scale projects. As the Business Development Manager for SOLV Energy’s Services Division, Alison rustles up new opportunities for the #1 Global Affiliated O&M Services Provider as ranked by Wood Mackenzie for five consecutive years. SOLV currently manages over 9.5 GW of renewable energy assets across the U.S. When she’s not working with IPPs and project owners to construct, operate, and repower their assets, she’s chasing her two kids or riding her horses through the sage brush.

Derek is CEO and founder of Onsight Technology. He has over 15 years of experience in Solar Energy. He's also founder and CEO of SunSystem Technology, the leading distributed generation operations and maintenance company in North America, which sold to NovaSource Power Services in 2020. And he's chairman of the SEIA O&M Committee.

Michael Enger, currently the Director of Energy Market Operations, joined Austin Energy in 2001 after graduating from Texas A&M University with a B.S. in Economics and a brief stint with a mutual fund company. Michael has spent nearly all of his 21 years at Austin Energy within the Energy Market Operations group performing or overseeing a variety of wholesale market and risk management tasks and projects but takes the greatest pride when identifying new opportunities, programs, or revenue streams that create additional benefit to the Austin Energy customer.

As Lockton’s Global Energy’s Pacific Leader, Alan has over 10 years of experience in insurance and risk management for solar project development, construction, and operations. Viewed as a thought leader, Alan pioneered a renewable energy construction solution that has saved his clients millions in insurance costs. Alan provides a strategic approach to client market representation, understanding that challenging insurance markets and new technologies require a long term calculated approach to attaining best results. Alan holds a B.S. in Journalism from University of Kansas and an MBA from the University of Kansas.

Edwin C. Moses is a highly accomplished renewable energy development and finance professional. To his role as Managing Director, Project Development at Origis Energy, he brings a background including two decades of solar, storage and energy system development, having worked in over 13 countries on three continents. As Managing Director, Project Development, he currently manages the company’s project development team and is responsible for bringing Origis Energy projects from inception to successful completion. Prior to joining Origis, Mr. Moses served as Executive Director at NextEra Energy Resources, a leading US solar development firm. His investment banking experience includes roles at Marathon Capital and RBC Capital Markets. Renewable energy project finance roles for Mr. Moses include leading renewable project finance at Enron Wind, Clipper Wind and SunEdison and advising the US Department of Energy where he co-led the founding of the Hawaii Clean Energy Initiative. Mr. Moses holds a Masters of Business Administration from the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin and received his Bachelor of Arts with Honors in Economics, from the University of Maryland. He also studied international business in Copenhagen, Denmark.

Will Troppe is Director of Product at Power Factors where he oversees the company’s performance management software products, optimizing 200GW of clean energy globally. In this role, Will connects data, analytics, and operations to help asset owners, managers, and operators generate more clean energy and increase ROI.Previously, Will led Power Factors’ Sales Engineering team, matching industry needs with software offerings, informing product strategy with market intelligence, leading technical pre-sales engagements, and increasing assets managed from 10 to 30GW over three years. Will began his career as Power Factors’ first hire, contributing to early product efforts and running fleet-scale onboarding projects for initial clients.Will received a BS in Civil Engineering and an MS in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University, focusing on energy and the environment from an engineering and business perspective. He grew up outside Washington, DC, and lives in San Francisco.

Prior to Cypress Creek, Steven was Director of Development at esVolta, a standalone storage IPP. There he was responsible for market entry into ERCOT, PJM, NYISO and ISO-NE, during which he green fielded and managed a 1GW+ pipeline and brought on one of the first solicitations for storage under VCEA with Dominion Energy. Prior to esVolta, Steven founded, worked, and consulted for various energy storage companies focused on distributed storage applications including non-wire alternative programs, CDG/VDER, PJM frequency regulation, demand charge savings, microgrids, and other behind-the-meter applications. Steven holds an MBA in Sustainability from Bard College and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics, with a minor in Finance and Classical Guitar Performance, from Vanderbilt University.

Edwin founded Solarplaza company in 2004. He is a senior PV expert and started in the photovoltaic solar energy business in 1994. He has experience as a solar energy consultant and project developer in more than 200 PV projects. Edwin holds a Master’s degree in Chemical engineering and previously worked in the Chemical industry before starting his first consultancy company in PV in 1994.