Saxon walks us through his career as an Origination Specialist, Invenergy's business model, and a slew of other great topics.
We discuss:
• Saxon's a self-made businessman from Illinois who wanted to make a career for himself in the energy space
• He Worked for retail energy supplier called Nordic Energy Services scheduling electrical load and making gas nominations before transitioning to Invenergy
• Invenergy owns and operates many of the plants they install and develop
• Invenergy's bread and butter is wind - most installed capacity by >14,000 MW of installed capacity over the past 20 years in operation
• Time required for a power project from idea inception to shovel ready
• Utility Integrated Resource Plans
• Transmission Infrastructure in the US (and how slowly development moves)
• Invenergy's finance stack and strategy for financing projects
• How Invenergy finds new projects
• Saxon's transition from thermal fleets to a renewable project origination role
• Recommended career path for someone looking to get into the renewable industry
Saxon's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saxon-mckinven-77095847/
Saxon's email: SMcKinven@invenergy.com
Mark Hinaman's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markhinaman/
Mark's email: mark.hinaman@ypenergy.org
Jake Adamson's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-adamson-ei-git-a3bba4103/
Jake's email: jadamson@ruleengineering.com
Ellen Scott's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-scott/
Ellen's email: elscott6@gmail.com
