WASHINGTON, D.C. – Right now, ACORE introduced its 2026 Board class and the appointment of Berkshire Hathaway Power’s Pat Reiten as Board chair. Alongside Pat as new chair, the next people may even serve in management positions on the Board.
- Chair: Pat Reiten, Senior Vice President, Public Coverage — Berkshire Hathaway Power
- Vice Chair: Meghan Schultz, Government Vice President & Chief Monetary Officer — Invenergy
- Treasurer / Finance Committee Chair: Steve Ryder, Government Vice President & Chief Monetary Officer — Clearway Power
- Secretary: Shannon Kellogg, VP of AWS Public Coverage – Americas, Amazon Internet Providers — Amazon
- Growth Committee Chair: Mit Buchanan, Managing Director — JP Morgan
- Governance Committee Chair: Elizabeth Kaiga, Chief Industrial Officer For Power Methods — DNV
The next have additionally joined the ACORE Board of Administrators:
- Frank Palladino, Vice President, Offsite Power Investments — Walmart
- Melissa Shute, Senior Vice President of Company Affairs — RWE
- Phil Musser, Senior Vice President, Authorities Affairs — NextEra Power
- Ray Wooden, Chairman, Pure Assets & Power Transition — Financial institution of America
“ACORE performs a major function in advancing the important thing function clear vitality funding has in assembly buyer wants and the nation’s strategic goals; the power of its membership and affect throughout the vitality business is substantial. I’m honored to function ACORE’s new Board chair and stay up for working alongside the various firms and people main American clear vitality improvement,” stated Pat Reiten, Senior Vice President of Public Coverage, Berkshire Hathaway Power.
“Right now of large and unprecedented electrical demand development, we’re grateful to have this group of pros serve on ACORE’s Board of Administrators,” stated ACORE President and CEO Ray Lengthy. “The Board, like our membership, features a numerous set of pursuits representing the establishments which might be financing, creating, constructing, shopping for, manufacturing, and working the US electrical vitality system. Their management and experience will assist drive coverage evaluation and analysis, the bedrock of ACORE’s work, notably as we transfer via this necessary period for American vitality.”
For extra data and a full checklist of ACORE’s Board of Administrators, please go to https://acore.org/about/board-of-directors/.
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About ACORE:
ACORE is a nonpartisan nonprofit group that operates on the intersection of affordability, reliability, and clear vitality deployment. Our work is concentrated on stabilizing vitality costs, strengthening the electrical grid, and driving funding in cost-effective applied sciences to make sure that clear vitality delivers for individuals, companies, and the U.S. economic system.
ACORE’s membership contains clear vitality traders, builders, vitality consumers, energy turbines, producers, and vitality suppliers. In 2024, practically 80% of the booming utility-scale home clear vitality development was financed, developed, owned, geared up, or contracted by ACORE members.
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