Eric is a co-founder and executive vice president of Community Energy, Inc. He has led CEI’s wind development and project finance activity for the past five years. Eric has been involved with electric utility issues for over twenty years, publishing and presenting in a variety of forums. He began his career providing economic consulting support, primarily to independent power producers during the mid-1980s. After a law degree, Eric spent ten years at a non-profit organization that worked with electric utilities and regulators in the intermountain west to develop public policy support for alternative energy, largely in the context of electric industry restructuring. As part of this work, Eric helped pioneer the field of wind energy marketing to end use customers in conjunction with several Colorado utilities. Eric holds a Master's degree in economics from the London School of Economics and a J.D. from Yale Law School. |