Molly is a solar analyst at Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables. Her coverage area includes solar PV system pricing in the U.S. and major markets in Middle East and Africa. She also covers floating solar market research. Before joining Wood Mackenzie, Molly was an account manager at CivicSolar, helping solar PV installers design their systems and selling them equipment. Molly holds a bachelor’s degree in global studies from Colby College, with a concentration in environmental studies

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Paul Holshouser is the Senior Director of Project Finance at Distributed Sun. Paul leads analysis and stakeholder engagement for DSUN while raising and deploying capital throughout the solar project life cycle. Critical duties in this role include expanding and managing DSUN’s investor network, negotiation of deal terms for project sale agreements, and document diligence for corporate and project financing agreements. Additionally, he supports business decisions for projects in the development cycle from greenfield to construction-ready status. DSUN has financed over 160MWdc or $245 MM of solar assets during Paul’s tenure starting in 2016.

Prior to joining Distributed Sun, Paul served as Finance Policy Manager for the American Wind Energy Association, supporting the nation’s primary wind advocacy organization in matters dealing with project finance. Prior to AWEA, he was a Risk Officer for Wachovia Corporation, providing risk analysis for or against investments in American wind projects.

Professor Holshouser holds a both a BSBA and an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Michaël Roberge has 11 years of experience in siting, permitting, and renewable energy development in North America, while holding several positions at DNV GL, including the Head of Section for Environmental and Permitting Services, from 2017 to 2019. He was responsible for business development and managing a team of 20 biologists, GIS specialists, land-use planners, and engineers who provided comprehensive permitting services to customers in Canada and the United States. His career focuses on aiding renewable energy developers in navigating many complex siting, environmental, and permitting environments. It reflects his passion for sustainable development and his dedication to increasing the success rate of projects through his skills in strategic permitting and planning, along with his training in GIS and environmental sciences.  He recently founded PEG Strategy, where he helps wind, solar, storage, and RNG developers find promising sites, permit projects, and avoid potential pitfalls, from the early stage development to operation compliance with strategy and technology.

Julie oversees GroundWork's data quality program for solar resource assessment. Her expertise ranges from MET system configuration through real-time data collection and monitoring to data delivery and reporting. Julie has an extensive background at the intersection of science and engineering. She holds a BS in Environmental Science and a MS in Plant Science. Her professional pursuits range from bench-scale laboratory research to field-scale implementation of engineered remediation solutions.

Ms. Tripp has over 25 years in the energy industry with a specialty in transmission delivery and market issues. Her expertise includes transmission and market risk, transmission expansion and planning strategies, financing due diligence, transmission and resource planning oversight, transmission service and delivery strategies, security constrained economic dispatch oversight, open access transmission tariff support, nodal market congestion and losses assessments, wind curtailment mitigation strategies and resource integration support.

Ms. Tripp has served in several leadership positions with electric utilities, consulting firms, and a leading developer of wind generation. She has made presentations at many industry conferences.

Ray Saka is Sr. Director of Sales at IHI Energy Storage Inc., an Energy Storage focused subsidiary of IHI Americas Inc. Ray overseas all US sales operations, application engineering, and contract management. Prior to IHI, Ray spear headed market & business development at TMEIC Corporation with a focus of utility-scale PV inverter business development and market analysis for US operations. Ray has extensively worked on new market development, key account partnerships, strategic business planning, competitive analysis, and innovative technology assessment for US renewable PV and energy storage markets. He has written several articles on inverter reliability, solar & energy storage coupling, and presented topics at utility conferences such as Intersolar NA & EU and Greentech Media events.