Features Energy

As the nation’s leading water logistics and chemistry provider for the energy industry, Select Water Solutions chose its new name to be more on brand with the business. It sounds simple to change a name, but it’s far more complex than just altering the corporate letterhead, Samantha-Anne Nadolny tells Vanguard from the company’s Houston headquarters […]

As a German full-service developer founded in 1999, UKA Group covers the entire value chain of renewable energy projects. Its current project pipeline for wind and solar farms now exceeds 14 GW globally. With roughly 900 employees, the company is active in Europe and North America. Now leadership is seeking to expand in Chile and […]

When Tyler Ivie moved from the pharmaceutical and agrichemical sectors to the energy industry about a decade ago, he moved between two starkly different worlds from a legal perspective. Now senior manager and associate general counsel at Cenovus Energy, an Alberta-based oil and gas company, Ivie specializes in intellectual property, and on that front, pharmaceuticals […]

Having distinguished himself as a private litigator, Bill Marsillo acknowledges how he sometimes misses the courtroom when his employer of the past year is immersed in something contentious. That can be often, given that Marsillo’s employer, PrimeLine Utility Services, is a holding company for entities that design, construct and maintain infrastructure for utility and telecommunications […]

Headquartered in Toronto, Canada, and operating in over 20 countries with nearly 4,000 employees, the global manufacturer Mattr is concentrating on its composite technologies and connection technologies segments. Beginning in late 2020, Mattr’s predecessor Shawcor started to simplify its businesses and focus on its core competencies. Continuing that work into late 2022, the company completed […]

It’s been almost 20 years since Pacific Hydro acquired the Coya and Pangal hydroelectric plants in 2004, allowing it to begin operating in Chile.  The plants have a combined capacity of 76 megawatts of hydropower. Since acquiring them, Pacific Hydro has added to its portfolio of renewable power generation with projects such as Chacayes hydropower […]

Vicki Goodman knows a lot about power—specifically the utility industry and how power is distributed. As assistant general counsel for Exelon Corp., Goodman helps manage litigation for the largest utility company in the U.S. The company owns Atlantic City Electric, Baltimore Gas and Electric, Commonwealth Edison, Delmarva Power, PECO and Potomac Electric Power Company. Those […]

Brazil has much available land and it’s being put to productive use. Just a few years ago the country ranked 15th in the Global Wind Energy Report but has ascended to sixth place and easily tops in Latin America. It could be moving up a notch or more with current projects including another massive tract […]

At some point, every person, everywhere needs a helping hand, but that help may be hard to get in underserved parts of the country. That’s been the experience of JoAnn Chávez, senior vice president and chief legal officer for Michigan-based Fortune 250 energy provider DTE, which is seeking to uplift young people in parts of […]

F or most people, the first day at a new job consists of meeting colleagues, getting log-in credentials and learning company basics. For Sophia Lee, her first day at Altus Power Inc. also included getting up to speed on its plan to go public, an initiative she would be leading. “I worked on it from day […]