Project-based Business Development
Utility-Scale Electric Power, Clean Liquid Fuels, Woody Biomass, Hydrogen
Helping start & grow green energy companies
Experience
Engineering + Economic Analysis + Risk Management + B.D.
Electric Power
High voltage 115 kV transmission design @ Midwest U.S. public utility (Engr Supervisor)
Hydro resource expansion & policy push for renewables @ Min & Energy, SE Asia (Expat)
Rural electrification, Africa (Peace Corps)
Independent Power
Natgas cogen @ Stanford University, one of 1st PURPA units in CA
- Built, owned & operated by SPV
- Ran for target life, retired, equipment moved & repurposed
- Plant replaced by new plant fully renewable
Managed multiple IPP proposals @ Texas-based IPP sub of major U.S. utility
Oil & Gas
Investment analysis & business system deployment @ integrated U.S. major Oilco
- Cogen @ Ship Channel chem plant
- Central American oil pipeline
- Horizontal drilling (Prudhoe Bay)
- West Texas shale
- GOM – Offshore & Onshore
- Business practices push-down before spin-off
Forest Products
Headed B.D. @ family office funded U.S. micro-IPP turned wood pellet producer
- Led effort that created international market awareness of “black pellet” technology
- Led team to acquire & secure European (Paris) offtake for 1st of kind U.S. black pellet plant
- Expanded project feedstock & site search to B.C., Canada targeting Japan for offtake
U.S. resident manager for Canadian company’s sawmill revamp @ acquired plant in U.S. South
Clean Fuels
VP BD @ early-stage U.S. startup with gas conversion technology (GTL)
- Multiple licenses signed with U.S. major oilcos; basis for U.S. IPO
- Extensive international outreach
- Non-traditional CFO during Sarbanes-Oxley + 2 Secondary rounds
- Co. 1st to make & deliver jet from methane to USAF for B-52 test flights
- Co. arguably kick-started today’s SAF gold rush
- Co. acquired & later became the anchor of Chevron’s renewable fuels platform
Green Chemicals & Hydrogen
Co-Founder @ TX startup targeting “green” chemicals; wound up company in ’23
- Ammonia, Methanol, Gasoline, Ethylene, Hydrogen
- Targeted sites at intersection of low-cost green power & sources of CO2, eg. ethanol plants
Experience
see linkedin.com/in/lweick for detailed work history
Houston, Texas
Registered Prof. Engineer Licenses (all retired):
Nebraska, by exam; California & Texas, by comity
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