Clay Pope
Clay Pope is a public affairs consultant based in Austin, Texas. He has over 40 years of experience in the governmental field. Clay assists corporations, local governments, individuals and foundations primarily in the areas of environmental management, water resource development, economic development, information technology, insurance, taxation, grid improvements and transportation. He represents clients before the […]
Graeme Grant
Graeme is the COO at Alsym Energy. He is a serial C-suite entrepreneur with a track record of launching, scaling and guiding multiple start-ups to exits, and has a career-long focus on bringing disruptive solutions to industries undergoing massive change. Graeme’s career has spanned advisory work (Monitor Company, various ClimateTech start-ups), CEO / COO roles […]
Robert Nathan
Robert Nathan is a Government Relations professional based in Austin, Texas with 18+ years in state legislative and regulatory policy covering energy, utilities and advanced manufacturing. Robert leads Government Relations in Texas and Tennessee for Schneider Electric, a global Fortune 500 company recognized as the world’s most sustainable company. Robert proactively engages with stakeholders to […]
Liam O’Brien
Liam O’Brien is a NABCEP-certified, renewable energy expert with extensive experience in solar, battery storage, and EV charging technologies. He combines hands-on engineering knowledge with strategic product management to help companies bring innovative clean energy solutions to market.
Shannon Ratliff
Shannon Ratliff leads Stemwinder, a Texas legislative and regulatory consultancy advising clients across the renewable energy, battery storage, and emerging energy sectors. With more than three decades of experience as an attorney and policy advocate, he helps clients navigate the complex and fast-changing policy and regulatory landscape in Texas. He brings deep expertise in market […]
Cris Eugster
Cris is the CEO & founder of Ever.green, a platform that brings companies interested in decarbonizing their footprint to new clean energy projects accelerating the energy transition. Ever.green’s High-Impact REC contracts offer businesses direct ways to enable new renewable projects – delivering real, additional clean energy without the complexity or risk of traditional VPPAs. Cris’ […]
Cameron Dales
Cameron Dales is president and co-founder of sodium-ion grid storage company, Peak Energy. Prior to Peak, Cam was an operating partner at Eclipse Ventures and was CCO of lithium-ion battery company, Enovix, where he led commercial strategy and execution from founding to public offering. His first start-up was Symyx Technologies, which became a public company […]
Emmitt Muckles
Solar + Battery ESS Technical Application Engineer | LMS Manager | NABCEP-Affiliated Trainer | Fractional Solar Educator | Certified Commercial Drone Operator Emmitt Muckles is a veteran solar energy expert with over a decade of hands-on experience in solar photovoltaic (PV) and battery energy storage systems (ESS). As a NABCEP-affiliated trainer, Emmitt brings certified credibility […]
Raina Hornaday
Raina Tillman Hornaday is a veteran renewable energy developer with over 20 years of experience advancing the energy transition across Texas, bringing more than 1 GW of renewable energy projects into commercial operation. As the founder and co-owner of Caprock Renewables and Fortress Microgrid, Raina leads the development of distributed generation, utility-scale solar and wind, […]
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, […]