Troy Helming has been a clean energy executive and leader for 20 years. As the Founder and CEO of Pristine Sun LLC, he's led the company to become the leading developer of small utility-scale solar power plants in California and the nation, with about $100 Million of project assets placed into service as of 2014 (as a profitable IPP - Independent Power Producer), and a project pipeline of over 2 GW of additional solar projects. Prior to that he founded TradeWind Energy, raised millions of seed capital, acquired PPAs/LOIs with utilities for $300 Million of wind energy & developed wind farm sites including Smoky Hills Wind Farm (250 MW / $500 Million) and Caney River Wind Farm (200 MW), then sold his interests in the company in 2003/2004. Since then, Tradewind has completed over 1 GW of wind projects, representing over $1.7 Billion of investment as of 2013. In 2005, Mr. Helming wrote & published a book The Clean Power Revolution (available here for Amazon Kindle apps for smartphones, tablets, Kindle e-reader), created The Freedom Plan (a blueprint to convert America to 100% renewable energy & save the U.S. economy $1 Trillion per year), published numerous articles, has been a keynote speaker in 13 states/4 countries, promoted clean energy tirelessly on TV & radio, fought the construction of various new coal plants, and served for the Sierra Club as an expert witness on wind energy. In 2007 Mr. Helming designed, built, and operated an EPA-registered biodiesel refinery. Since 2001, Mr. Helming has designed, sold, permitted, installed, and serviced numerous small wind, solar, fuel cell and energy efficiency solutions and been a consultant for dozens of companies (including McKinsey & Co, Bank of America, Citigroup and Goldman Sachs). He holds a BS in Business Administration from the University of Kansas, has certifications in OSHA, NABCEP (pending), Commercial PV NEC 2011 (Complaint Design, O&M), solar & wind energy finance, system design & technical sales, and is a member of Mensa.