Marathon Capital’s Joan Hutchinson shared her expertise
As the world shifts from a fossil-fuel-driven, high carbon environment to the decarbonized future of tomorrow, Marathon Capital is dedicated to supporting businesses, governments, and non-governmental organizations navigate the risks and challenges associated with their environmental impact.
In this webinar, REsurety’s Blair Allen spoke with Marathon’s Joan Hutchinson about how she helps customers navigate the challenges in valuing wind and solar energy. She drew from experience and explained how she’s helped a variety of customers understand capture prices, capture rates, and the different ways to calculate them. Questions they answered included:
- Where different generation profiles may appear in decision making and why.
- How to interpret the differences in value when using different generation profiles, and the impacts of those differences.
- When to turn to historical data to support forecasted value analysis.
The event was interactive and there was a Q & A session after the presentation. Watch the full recording of the webinar below.
About the speakers
Blair Allen, Director, Customer Success, REsurety
Blair Allen is a clean energy executive dedicated to accelerating the world’s transition to a zero-carbon future. Throughout his 5 year tenure with REsurety, Blair has held various positions across the organization including product management and his current role leading the customer success team.
In his current position, Blair plays a critical role in ensuring that the company’s customers – clean energy buyers, sellers, and investors – are all able to optimize the REsurety platform to meet their financial and sustainability goals. Customers rely on Blair and his team for industry knowledge, technical expertise, and willingness to suggest innovative solutions to overcome customers’ unique challenges.
Prior to joining the REsurety team, Blair worked as a Senior Market Analyst offering price and congestion forecasts to customers with physical or financial risk in MISO.
Blair holds a Bachelor’s degree in Philosophy from Bucknell University, with a minor in Economics
Joan Hutchinson, Managing Director & Co-Head, Offtake Advisory, Marathon Capital
Joan Hutchinson, Managing Director & Co-Head of Offtake Advisory, is based in Marathon Capital’s San Francisco office. Joan advises corporate clients to set and meet sustainability goals, including energy offtake agreements, carbon reduction, and energy transition strategies. She advises developers on physical and financial offtake agreements to support financing and enhance project value. Joan has advised Nestlé, TC Energy, and Tokyo Gas on recent sustainability initiatives.
Joan has over 25 years of experience in North American energy markets and renewable energy project development. Before joining Marathon Capital, Joan was Vice President of Origination & Business Development at Ørsted A/S, where she led the origination of wind, solar, and storage projects resulting in over 1600 MW of transactions in three years. Many of the transactions Joan completed were power purchase agreements with first-time corporate buyers.
Prior to Ørsted, Joan was SVP Origination & Marketing for Ridgeline Energy, responsible for negotiating contracts for the sale of power and renewable energy credits from renewable projects, leading solar development, and the acquisition of wind and solar projects. Joan was Director of Origination at Citigroup Energy and held various origination and trading positions with Powerex, Inc.
Joan received her Bachelor of Electrical Engineering from the University of Victoria in Victoria, B.C., and holds a Series 79 license.
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