Chief Commercial Officer, Renewable Energy

For over 17 years, Joe Amara has represented companies within the utility-scale renewable energy and emerging infrastructure industries.

Our team recruits on various executive level roles located throughout the United States and Latin America, such as project development, power origination, finance, business development, strategy, engineering, and sales.

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We are seeking a Chief Commercial Officer on behalf of a well-capitalized infrastructure fund. The CCO will lead all commercial actives for our client’s renewable energy portfolio company, which is poised for significant growth. The preferred candidate has 15-20 years of spearheading commercial activities for an independent power producer, project developer, or standalone storage owner/operator.

The ideal candidate has created a commercial strategy for a technology agnostic developer, with both contracted and merchant assets, located throughout the United States. The CCO is responsible for spearheading new customer engagement, directing the commercial team’s activities, and clearly communicating the new commercial strategy to internal stakeholders.

• Support greenfield development of utility-scale wind, solar, and storage assets across multiple ISOs/RTOs, by providing commercial guidance to the project development team, power origination team, and capital markets team.
• Originate and negotiate new power purchase agreements with utilities and C&I customers for upcoming projects in 2025/2026/2027.
• Provide guidance on structuring long and short-term PPAs, manage basis risk, and deploy hedging strategies.
• Examine over several gigawatts of operating assets, replace offtake for expiring PPAs, source new off-takers for existing assets, and make repower recommendations where appropriate.
• Work with transmission team and market operations team to manage and capitalize on merchant exposure.
• Work with trading floor and implement day, day-ahead, and real-time market strategies.
• Communicate new hedging strategies to internal stakeholders.

• Qualifications 15-20 years of power origination/marketing experience with a utility-scale renewable energy developer, IPP, or standalone storage owner/operator.
• A minimum of 1.5GW of wind and solar energy PPAs originated within the past five years.
• The successful implementation of commercialization strategy, which included multiple technologies, in multiple US wholesale power markets.
• Bachelor’s Degree is a must. MBA is preferred.
• Willingness to travel 30%.