Careers
Meet Jason Allen
CEO of Leeward Renewable Energy
Why we need clean energy in three words/clauses:
Demand – The Energy industry will struggle to meet demands; therefore, any source of energy is needed.
Efficiency – LCOE is low
Beneficial – Provides more benefits compared to competitors.
Job description:
Jason Allen fosters a positive company culture. He leads the future of Leeward by initiating power plant projects and making executive decisions.
Career path:
Jason Allen earned his Electrical Engineering BS at the University of Cincinnati and his MBA at Northwestern University. At the start of his career, he worked in gas power plants monitoring equipment, later becoming a power plant manager. His love for clean energy led him to work on environmental projects. Thanks to his passion for understanding every part of the job, he eventually moved up to be a CEO. .
Meet Dr. PJ Stanley
Offshore Wind Researcher at Shell
Job description:
As an offshore wind researcher, Dr. PJ Stanley works for the innovation team, which directly works on designing wind plants and farms. He develops methods and tools to greatly improve the efficiency of wind turbine positions. He is creating new wind turbine layout software that is more optimized than the industry standard.
Career path:
Starting as an undergraduate in Mechanical engineering, Dr. PJ Stanley decided further his academic career by pursuing his PhD. During his PhD he developed a passion for wind energy and starting working on wind turbine layout optimization. After completing his PhD in 4 years, he started working for NREL as a postdoc and applied his previous work to hybrid plant systems. With his success at NREL, he got approached by Shell researchers and started his current position. With Shell, he is able to be more directly involved with in-development wind projects.
Meet Dr. Rogier Blom
Renewable Breakthrough Technologies Leader at GE Vernova
Why we need clean energy in three words/clauses:
~To save our planet
~Urgent
~Expedite the process to reach net zero emissions by 2050
Job description:
Dr. Blom directly manages a research team that is tasked with innovative and next-gen wind technologies. He is responsible for defining the team’s research strategy and coordinating new research initiatives.
Career path:
Dr. Blom is passionate about renewable energy and preserving this planet for us and future generations. Being a controls engineer by training, he was debating on continuing engineering by pursuing a PhD or pursuing leadership interests. He chose management, but doing it for years got tedious and he wanted to do more technology. He got his PhD in Systems and Control/Mechanical Engineering at the TU Delft. Later, he decided to work with his interest in wind energy.
Meet Dr. Jennifer Stucker
Senior Research Biologist/Offshore Wind Lead at WEST, Inc.
Why we need clean energy in three words/clauses:
~We need more energy
~We can’t give our future population a polluted world
~We need the benefits of a clean energy for the social justice position
Job description:
Dr. Stucker leads a team, manages projects, and communicate with potential and current clients. She is also responsible for revising project proposals and reports.
Career path:
Dr. Stucker has always been concerned about the environment. She pursued biology as an undergraduate and a master’s for wildlife. Her interest in wildlife led her to focus on endangered species in great lakes then great planes under the government. With time she grew interested in hydrodynamic river management and pursued a PhD in Conservation Biology. After becoming interested in environmental risks for clean energy, she started working for WEST, Inc.
Meet Dr. Lili Haus
Senior Engineer in Wind Research at EPRI
Job description:
As a Senior Wind Engineer at EPRI, Lili Haus does various tasks. Industry partners and customers subscribe to EPRI about problems with blades and gearboxes failing, lightning strikes, and liability budgets. An example of Lili’s work is a software she made, which predicts failure for wind turbine components using wind site data. Additionally, she is responsible for communicating with EPRI members and writings reports.
Career path:
Lili Haus started research in the junior year of her undergraduate. She worked on cool projects such as a wave energy converter and wind turbine digital twin modeling. Due to her passion and hard work, WindSTAR, an industry-university cooperative research center created by the NSF, reached out to her to provide the opportunity to do research after she graduated. Within time, the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) then reached out to Lili to be a part of the Renewable Generation team.
