Steve Schauer appointed as president at Westerly Wind

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Greentech Lead America:Westerly Wind, a provider of development capital and expertise to the wind industry, has hired Steve Schauer to the position of President.Schauer has over 22 years of energy finance experience, serving most recently as Senior Vice President of Finance and Treasurer of First Wind Holdings. Over his career, Schauer has raised over $7 billion of capital for wind energy projects. Schauer also worked with NextEra Energy, BTM Capital and Bank of America.

“Steve’s considerable experience and expertise raising capital for wind energy projects makes him the ideal candidate to help lead the Westerly team to develop and expand our 1,000 MW wind energy portfolio,” said Westerly CEO, Joe Cofelice. “Steve has a proven track record of successfully driving wind energy projects through the financing process to commercial operations.”

Westerly provides development capital and expertise to wind projects at all stages in the development cycle and currently has approximately 1,000 MWs under development.

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