ADVANCED ENERGY UNITED, INC.
WASHINGTON, DC

ADVANCED ENERGY ECONOMY (AEE) is a national association of business leaders who are making the global energy system more secure, clean, and affordable. Advanced energy encompasses a broad range of products and services that constitute the best available technologies for meeting energy needs today and tomorrow. Among these are energy efficiency, demand response, energy storage, natural gas electric generation, solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, electric vehicles, biofuels and smart grid. It's all the innovations that make the energy we use more secure, clean, and affordable. Our mission is transforming public policy to enable rapid growth of advanced energy companies. across states and industries to help the advanced energy industry succeed nationwide. The mission of Advanced Energy Economy Institute, AEE's charitable and educational affiliate, is to raise awareness of the public benefits and opportunities of advanced energy. AEEI carries out its mission in a number of ways, both directly and through products and services it creates that are made available to the general public through AEE. AEEI provides easy access to critical data to drive the policy debate on key issues through commissioned research and reports and data aggregation and analytic tools. The organization also does public education, media campaigns, and targeted outreach to thought leaders about the benefits of advanced energy to communities across America. AEEI provides a forum where leaders can address energy challenges and opportunities facing the US through its own convenings and through the provision of educational, issue-based content to other public conferences. Though widely varied, advanced energy technologies and services work together to make the best use of multiple resources for meeting energy needs – fast-start natural gas power plants complementing variable wind power, smart grid technologies moving power where it’s needed and protecting against outages, efficiency measures reducing waste and stretching all our energy sources further. Advanced energy technologies and products are also providing a host of other benefits, including cost savings, cleaner air, and greater energy security. AEE is an organization of businesses working to make energy secure, clean, and affordable Bill is now leading Veolia North America’s Municipal and Commercial business, which is the result of a recent merger of Veolia North America’s energy and municipal water/wastewater businesses. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Veolia Energy North America, a January 2013 appointment, following his successful role as the company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He joined Veolia Energy North America in June 2008 as Senior Vice President - East Region. Before joining Veolia, Bill was the President and Chief Operating Officer of NSTAR Electric and Gas Company's unregulated subsidiaries, which owned and operated private utilities (Medical Area Total Energy Plant, Inc.- MATEP), as well as other district energy and telecommunication businesses in the greater Boston area. Bill is now leading Veolia North America’s Municipal and Commercial business, which is the result of a recent merger of Veolia North America’s energy and municipal water/wastewater businesses. He previously served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Veolia Energy North America, a January 2013 appointment, following his successful role as the company’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer. He joined Veolia Energy North America in June 2008 as Senior Vice President - East Region. Before joining Veolia, Bill was the President and Chief Operating Officer of NSTAR Electric and Gas Company's unregulated subsidiaries, which owned and operated private utilities (Medical Area Total Energy Plant, Inc.- MATEP), as well as other district energy and telecommunication businesses in the greater Boston area. Roger Flanagan is Managing Director of Lockheed Martin Energy, leading the company’s business unit with electric and gas utilities in North America. LM Energy provides utilities with distributed energy resources through energy efficiency, demand response, renewables, cogen, storage, and microgrids. LM Energy also provides utilities with advanced technology intransmission & distribution automation, grid & customer analytics, information & operations technology, and cyber security. Dr. Flanagan has 30 years of professional experience in energy and national security with Lockheed Martin and the Tennessee Valley Authority. He has worked at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and is formerly the Director of the Remote Sensing Laboratory at Nellis and Andrews Air Force Bases. He has held senior technical and management positions in electric power generation, transmission & distribution, and has managed technical operations support groups at Livermore, Los Alamos, and Sandia National Laboratories. Dr. Flanagan earned a Doctor of Philosophy degree in Engineering from the University of Tennessee and Masters and Bachelors of Science degrees in Engineering from West Virginia University.He is the author of numerous publications on energy, materials and engineering science. Mike has developed, constructed, managed and invested in energy and infrastructure projects in the United States and around the globe. Since the closing of his first wind project financing in 1989, he has managed the successful development and investment of nearly 4,000 MW of wind projects worldwide, as well as many transmission, renewable, and conventional fueled power projects. Formerly, Mike was a partner of Babcock & Brown from 1986 to 2009, where he led the firm’s North American Infrastructure Group and initiated and managed project finance activities, energy development and energy investment, which grew to over $12 billion of assets in less than five years under his leadership. Earlier in his career, from 1975 to 1986, Mike worked for the State of California as Chief of Energy Assessments.