The FlexGen team is excited to announce that Adam Nygaard is joining their business development team, where he will be focusing on private equity and the financial sector. Adam’s previous industry experience includes 13 years at Duke Energy in Nuclear Spent Fuel Management, Duke Energy Renewables wind/solar development, and Regulated Utilities CHP/Energy Storage Development. Here he helped develop 50 MW of energy storage across 6 sites in Duke Energy Florida and developed an award winning CHP project for Purdue University. Adam was also VP of Investment at Harbert Infrastructure where he led investments in energy storage assets including two separate 230 MW projects in CAISO.
Several things influenced Adam’s decision to follow a career in the energy industry and he developed a passion for clean energy in his 11th grade English class. “I actually hated English (I was good at math and physics) but we had to do a lengthy report as a graduation requirement and I chose to do it on energy. I learned all about coal, natural gas, renewables and nuclear. At the time, we were going to build 30+ nuclear plants in the US, which were going to provide clean, reliable, affordable electricity moving forward – and I was all in. Unfortunately, the nuclear industry has lost momentum in the United States and to continue to be a part of the clean energy transition I moved to wind/solar development. From there developing and investing in energy storage was a natural transition which will be helpful experience for my new role at FlexGen.”
When asked what made him want to join FlexGen he replied, “First and foremost it is the people at FlexGen that make it not only a great place to work, but who hold each other accountable for providing best-in-class energy storage software and excellent customer service. FlexGen’s reputation is 2nd to none which is a testament to the people here. Secondly, there is a significant knowledge gap in the energy storage industry regarding the importance of software and controls which many project owners are learning about the hard way through painful commissioning delays. I believe FlexGen has the best solution for this problem and when you combine that with the exponential growth for energy storage recently spurned by the Inflation Reduction Act – it is too good of an opportunity to pass up.”
Adam’s immediate goals included integrating into the FlexGen team and then helping project owners and prospective clients understand the importance of having a solid strategy and partner around software, controls, commissioning, and long-term service to ensure their assets performance matches or exceeds their original investment case pro forma.