Saxon McKinven, Senior Associate at Invenergy

Saxon walks us through his career as an Origination Specialist, Invenergy's business model, and a slew of other great topics. We discuss: • Saxon's a self-made businessman from Illinois who wanted to make a career for himself in the energy space • He Worked for retail energy supplier called Nordic Energy Services scheduling electrical load and making gas nominations before transitioning to Invenergy • Invenergy owns and operates many of the plants they install and develop • Invenergy's bread and butter is wind - most installed capacity by >14,000 MW of installed capacity over the past 20 years in operation • Time required for a power project from idea inception to shovel ready • Utility Integrated Resource Plans • Transmission Infrastructure in the US (and how slowly development moves) • Invenergy's finance stack and strategy for financing projects • How Invenergy finds new projects • Saxon's transition from thermal fleets to a renewable project origination role • Recommended career path for someone looking to get into the renewable industry Saxon's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/saxon-mckinven-77095847/ Saxon's email: SMcKinven@invenergy.com Mark Hinaman's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/markhinaman/ Mark's email: mark.hinaman@ypenergy.org Jake Adamson's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacob-adamson-ei-git-a3bba4103/ Jake's email: jadamson@ruleengineering.com Ellen Scott's LinkedIn profile can be found here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ellen-scott/ Ellen's email: elscott6@gmail.com