Patrice ‘Pete’ Parsons
For nearly three decades, Patrice ‘Pete’ Parsons has been a leader and advocate for sustainability and renewable energy in public service and the non-profit sector. Her experience managing public/private partnerships to promote economic development and energy independence exemplifies collaboration. As Director of the Texas State Energy Conservation Office with grant oversight of $200M, Pete provided […]
Becky Diffen
Becky Diffen is a partner based in Norton Rose Fulbright’s Austin office where she focuses her practice on mergers and acquisitions, joint ventures, and project development of renewable energy, energy storage, power generation and transmission projects – including wind, solar, battery storage, green hydrogen, carbon capture, geothermal, waste-to-energy, RNG and other technologies. She also has […]
RJ Hardin
RJ Hardin is a Senior Manager with more than a decade of experience in the renewable energy industry. With an engineering background, he has cultivated a diverse career where he has held positions across the full project lifecycle — greenfield pipeline growth, acquisitions, construction, and operations and maintenance of renewable assets. In his current role, […]
Adam Miller
Adam Miller is Chief Revenue Officer at Solarity a leading C&I developer of distributed energy systems. Adam is an expert with over 25 years of experience in power, natural gas, renewable energy, and microgrid systems. He has led engineering, pricing, development and product innovation teams at leading companies such as Reliant, Sunnova and NextEra.
Mark Henry
As Chief Engineer and Director, Reliability Outreach at the Texas Reliability Entity (a NERC Regional Entity), Mark is part of a team focused on bulk power grid reliability. Efforts include long-term reliability assessments, performance monitoring and disturbance event analysis for the Texas Interconnection, sharing how grid transformation and the integration of variable energy, inverter-based resources, […]
Tim Harvey
Tim directs Austin Energy’s Customer Renewable Solutions team, bringing over 30 years of experience in the energy industry, including 19 years in Austin Energy’s solar group. Under his leadership, Austin Energy has developed and expanded its award-winning Residential, Multifamily, and Commercial rebate programs, as well as GreenChoice, Community Solar, Shared Solar, and Solar Standard Offer […]
Dub Taylor
For more than three decades, Dub Taylor has helped advance cost-effective, clean energy technology and policy through his work in the public and private sectors. He currently serves as Chief Operating Officer of the Texas PACE Authority, and is active on the Boards of several local, state, and national organizations focused on clean energy technology […]
Margo Weisz
Margo has over 30 years of experience building innovative solutions for underserved communities. Margo has been instrumental in TEPRI’s growth, helping conceptualize and launch TEPRI in 2014 and then serving as a member of the TEPRI Board, before serving in her current role as Executive Director. Prior to TEPRI, Margo was a founding Partner […]
Barksdale English
Barksdale English was tapped to lead the Public Utility Commission of Texas’ program areas in February 2024 and was later named Deputy Executive Director of the agency in May 2024. He oversees the commission’s Compliance and Enforcement, Market Analysis, Rules and Projects, and Texas Energy Fund divisions. Barksdale began his work with the Commission in […]
Hala Ballouz
Hala N. BallouzFounder, Board Chair, Chief Vision OfficerElectric Power EngineersAs Founder, Board Chair, Chief Vision Officer, and former CEO of Electric Power Engineers, LLC, Hala N. Ballouz has built an unmatched power systems advisory firm with over 400 employees, including more than 300 degreed engineering professionals solving the most complex problems of the grid. Ms. […]
Pat Wood
Pat Wood leads a team at the Hunt Energy Network building and operating a platform of distributed power assets (storage, grid-connected and customer premises generation) across Texas. They have 31 operating batteries and went operational on their first diesel peaking generator this month, with more on the way. HEN is also working with select customers […]
Jonathan Tan
Jonathan has been an executive and business leader in the advanced materials and battery industry for over 15 years. At Coreshell, he’s commercializing the only battery anode material that has the unit economics and scale of supply to replace Chinese graphite in the US and EU.