Senior Consultant
International REC Standard Foundation
Jos is an expert on the functionality, use, and implementation of attribute tracking schemes such as the Guarantees of Origin (GO), the United States REC, and the International REC Standard (I-REC). He is currently involved with the CEN/CENELEC Standard that describes the way European Member States implement article 19 of the second Renewable Energy Directive (RED II). In addition, with his work within the Secretariat of the International REC Standard Foundation, a not-for-profit organization that enables the simplified implementation of reliable REC systems, he is frequently involved with governments, market players, and other stakeholders to build robust tracking schemes that help businesses with the procurement of renewable energy that is in line with best practices around the world (CDP, RE100) in terms of scope 2 reporting.
Director of Sales & Marketing EMEA
Hitachi Energy
Senior sales and sales operations professional with 30+ years experience in sales management, business development, and sales support roles within growing high technology companies. Multi-lingual with hands-on international experience, having lived and worked in North America, Europe and the Middle East and traveled extensively to Asia and Latin America.
Business Development Manager Renewables
Hitachi Energy
Renewables Business Development Manager with 15 years global experience and responsibility to decrease OPEX and increase revenues for owners and operators of wind, solar and BESS assets. Having start his career in Vestas Wind Systems and having lived and worked in various EU countries, Gian has also gained experience in solar PV and Battery Energy Storage projects from Australia to Latin America. With a constant focus to increase the share of renewable energy in the global energy mix, Gian currently supports Hitachi Energy’s clients in renewables project development and asset management leveraging our automation solutions and leading our global initiatives helping to digitally integrate renewables into markets, grids and operation centers.
Advisory Team Lead
Hitachi Energy
Advisory Team Lead (Americas) with almost 15 years of renewable energy and investment risk management experience. Experienced in all phases of project development from portfolio allocation to siting to pricing as well as in both acquisitions and divestures. He has worked for both small and large project developers and also spent time working with a large global renewable owner-operator. Joseph currently leads capacity expansion modeling on the North America Power Reference Case and most recently designed Hitachi Energy’s State REC Price forecast model.
Vice President, Energy Portfolio Management
Hitachi Energy
Energy Portfolio Management (EPM) leader with over 20 years of experience creating solutions that help energy market participants understand and analyze the fundamentals of these markets. Greg has worked with FT Energy, Platts and was a key member of the original team that built the Velocity Suite market intelligence product line for Global Energy Decisions in the early 2000’s prior to acquisition by Ventyx, ABB and later Hitachi Energy. He is now working to continually evolve the EPM solution set to meet the needs of energy planners, traders and market participants in a renewable world.