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It’s time to bet on the future.  Climate change is here, disasters are daily, and even financial systems are strained to breaking.  In Episode One of our Green Hydrogen Mini-Series, Sheldon Kimber is thinking outside the grid and betting on dramatic change, with his eyes set on five inevitable technologies of the zero carbon future. What markets will be both profitable and scalable?  Why is Green Hydrogen a giga-ton clean gas solution? And how does it even work?  We talk about his vision of the carbon-neutral future and the steps Intersect Power is taking to get there.  Hold on, because we are going to be thinking big and out of the box in the series.  Don’t miss it.  

The Green Hydrogen Mini-Series is produced  in partnership with Intersect Power.  It will help you filter hope from hype and reality from fiction to see where the true opportunities exist with Green Hydrogen.  

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Here’s a peak at what’s coming this week in the Green Hydrogen Mini-Series

Episode 1 - Nexus of Deep Decarbonization & “The Inevitability of Hydrogen” with Sheldon Kimber, CEO Intersect Power

Episode 2 - The Green Hydrogen Opportunity with DNVs Global Energy Storage leader and Hydrogen Industry Veteran, Jason Goodhand

Episode 3 - The Role of the Large Energy Companies, partnership opportunities, existing infrastructure, and more from a top 10 Oil & Gas analyst, RBC’s Biraj Borkhataria

Episode 4 - Role of New Technologies - with Raffi Garbedin, Co-founder of Electric Hydrogen (formerly CTO of First Solar)

Episode 5 - Decarbonizing Hard-to-abate Sectors Like Steel with Joachim Von Sheele, Global Director of Commercialization at the world’s largest industrial gas company, Linde, who is also building the world’s largest Electrolyzer.

 

ABOUT SHELDON KIMBER:

Sheldon has almost 20 years of experience in energy finance, development and entrepreneurship.  He is currently CEO and Founder of Intersect Power, a developer of utility scale renewables.

In his prior role as COO of Recurrent Energy, he led all of the company’s development, origination, engineering, procurement, construction and operations activities globally. During more than seven years at the company, Sheldon led its expansion from a small-scale, rooftop developer to a leading, utility-scale photovoltaic developer with over one gigawatt of contracted projects and a pipeline of more than three GW. Throughout his tenure, Sheldon was intricately involved in all major project development, power purchase agreement origination, mergers and acquisitions, and module procurement, including hundreds of megawatts in Arizona, Ontario, Texas and California. Sheldon joined Recurrent Energy in the Spring of 2007, shortly before its initial funding. In his first year at Recurrent Energy, he held the role of vice president of finance, where he was instrumental in developing and negotiating the company’s first projects, early corporate fundraising efforts, and joint venture agreements.

Previously, he spent five years at Calpine, working on finance and development of gas-fired power projects. He also worked as an investment banker at Goldman Sachs, and in Accenture’s strategy consulting practice, specializing in power-price forecasting and asset valuation projects for utility clients. Sheldon holds a B.A. in Economics from Kenyon College, where he serves on the Kenyon Fund Executive Committee. He also holds an MBA from UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business, where he teaches Project Finance in the full-time MBA program, and has served on the Dean’s Advisory Committee.


RESOURCES:

Find Sheldon on LinkedIn , Twitter and his blog.

Follow Intersect Power on Twitter and their website.


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