Jim Howell

Recurrent Energy, Inc. owns and operates solar plants. The firm builds a portfolio of clean power plants in different strategic locations. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

Southern Methodist University is a private university near the center of Dallas, SMU offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs through seven schools in the humanities and sciences, business, the performing, visual, and communication arts, engineering, education and human development, law, and theology.

OwnEnergy, Inc. operates as a renewable energy company that enables landowners and communities to build local wind farms. It develops mid-sized utility scale wind projects for commercial purposes, using utility scale wind turbines. The company was founded by Jacob Susman on November 2, 2007 and is headquartered in Albany, NY.

St. Nicks Alliance Corp. is a non-profit, non-sectarian community development organization. It provides employment, education, housing, and health care assistance to low and moderate income residents of North Brooklyn. The company was founded in 1975 and is headquartered in Brooklyn, NY.

The Carlyle Group LP (Global Private Equity) is a private equity firm founded in the year 1990 by William E. Conway, Jr. and Daniel A. D'Aniello. The firm is headquartered in Washington DC.

GV Management Co LLC (Google Ventures) is a venture capital firm, a subsidiary of Google LLC founded in 2009 by Bill Maris. The firm is headquartered in Mountain View, California with an additional office in San Francisco, Boston, New York and London.

National Renewable Energy Laboratory operates as laboratory for renewable energy and energy efficiency research and development. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in Golden, CO.

Rocky Mountain Institute is a non-profit organization that transforms energy use to clean and secure low carbon future. It engages in businesses, communities, institutions, and entrepreneurs to accelerate the adoption of market-based solutions that cost-effectively shift from fossil fuels to efficiency and renewables. It examining and facilitating market-based technology that will play a role in addressing the climate problem. The company was founded by Amory Lovin in 1982 and is headquartered in Basalt, CO.

Cornell University is an educational institution that offers undergraduate and post graduate programs. It was founded in 1865 and is based in Ithaca, NY.