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anderson
Steven F. Anderson
Mr. Anderson has more than twenty five (25) years of supervisory,
managerial, and executive experience conceptualizing, permitting,
financing, developing, marketing, and providing operational services
in the energy industry. He is familiar with conventional, as well as,
renewable electric production technologies and has played key decision
making roles in the development and operation of numerous regulated
and independent power facilities. His employers and clients are
diverse enough to have included both Fortune 100 and small privately
held independent energy companies. He has had first hand experience
with power plant, natural gas storage, and natural gas pipeline
facilities in more than a dozen states and two Canadian Provinces.
Prior to his career in the energy industry, Mr. Anderson held senior
management positions with Louisiana Pacific and the Pack River Lumber
Company. His segue into power production began as fuels manager for
the Washington Water Power Company’s (now Avista Corporation) 50 MW
wood fueled power plant in Kettle Falls, WA and grew to include
multifaceted managerial assignments with that organization that
spanned a twelve year period. In 1993 Mr. Anderson left Washington
Water Power to become a partner in the development of the 838 MW
Northwest Regional Power Facility. Although not constructed due to
changing regional dynamics, the NRPF was the first independent power
facility to receive a Site Certificate from the Washington State
Energy Facilities Site Evaluation Council (EFSEC), a process that
encompassed more than three years. In 1999 Mr. Anderson joined Panda Energy International
where he was personally responsible for the licensing and permitting
of the 1150 MW Oneta Energy Center in Broken Arrow, OK (now owned and
operated by Calpine) and where he provided oversight, as the Managing
Director of Business Development, for a staff of project development
managers permitting similar projects in California, Utah, Michigan,
Iowa, Mississippi, and North Carolina. Mr. Anderson sits on the Board
of Kootenai Electric Cooperative, the largest customer owned utility
in the State of Idaho.
Mr. Anderson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Forest Management
with a Physical Sciences Option from Washington State University. His
postgraduate education has continued with MBA course work at City
University and Eastern Washington University and through completion of
the Public Utility Executive Courses at the University of Idaho.
Steve Anderson can be contacted at 509-241-0535 or
Email Steve.
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illich
Thomas J. Illich
Mr. Illich has over 30 years of technical and management
responsibility and experience in all aspects of the electric power
industry. He has provided consulting services to the energy industry
since June 1990. Prior to 1990, Mr. Illich was employed by The
Washington Water Power Company (now Avista Corporation) in Spokane,
Washington in a variety of technical and managerial positions in both
utility and non-utility operations. A significant portion of Mr.
Illich’s professional activity has included responsibility for the
leadership and coordination of internal employee and external
consulting teams addressing diverse business issues and complex
projects. He has extensive experience in project management, strategic
planning, negotiation, and analysis, both financial and operational.
Mr. Illich’s energy industry experience encompasses wholesale power
acquisition, marketing and scheduling, short term power trading,
thermal system modeling and analysis, hydro system modeling and
analysis, financial analysis, system engineering, retail marketing and
sales, regulation and ratemaking, expert testimony, transmission
analysis, contract negotiation, generation project development and
financing, strategic planning, and organization management.
Significant projects include the negotiation of power purchases from
independent power producers; wholesale power purchase, sale, and
exchange agreements with other utilities including the Bonneville
Power Administration; the development of physical and financial
performance models and financial analysis for generation projects
ranging in size from 15 to 1,200 MWs; modeling of national and
international utility systems on behalf of large industrial clients
(150 to 450 MWs); negotiating supply contracts with international
utilities (Iceland and Ghana, Africa); the evaluation and acquisition
of alternative power supplies for industrial clients and retail
utilities; and, analysis and review of electrical interconnection
facilities, transmission interconnections and transmission capacity
for power generating facilities.
Mr. Illich holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical
Engineering from Gonzaga University and a Masters of Business
Administration from Gonzaga University. He has additional postgraduate
education in Mergers and Acquisitions from Northwestern University’s
Kellogg School of Business and in Marketing Management from Washington
State University. He has also participated in comprehensive training
in industrial finance from Kidder, Peabody, a major investment banking
firm. Mr. Illich has served as past chairman and is a current member
of the Engineering Advisory Council of the School of Engineering at
Gonzaga University.
Tom Illich can be contacted at 509-448-2212 or
Email Tom.
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jacobson
L. Wally Jacobson
Mr. Jacobson has nearly twenty-five years experience working in the
domestic and international electric industry. His experience includes:
power plant operations, boiler marketing and sales, engineering
consulting, project development, and corporate management. Over the
past ten years, Mr. Jacobson has provided consulting services to a
variety of international utilities and EPC firms. Key assignments have
included: utility asset valuations (Pakistan), electric distribution
company strategic business planning (Brazil), EPC proposal development
(Czech Republic, Ukraine, Japan), fuel procurement (Hungary, Poland),
asset acquisitions (U.S.), and power technology assessment
(Switzerland).
Prior to his independent consulting career, Mr. Jacobson was Senior
Director, Engineering and Projects for Power International, Inc. (a
subsidiary of Cincinnati Gas & Electric) and was responsible for the
start up and management of international engineering and project
development offices in the U.S., Czech Republic, and Kazakhstan. Major
achievements include the development of the first fluidized bed boiler
project in the Czech Republic, concept to execution of a Central
European power asset acquisition strategy, and successful
divestiture/sale of Power International, Inc. to Cincinnati Gas &
Electric (now Cinergy Corporation).
He has also held management positions with several engineering firms
including Power Engineers, Inc. where he was responsible for business
development initiatives and project development. Mr. Jacobson began
his power career with Basin Electric Cooperative, one the nation’s
largest generation and transmission cooperatives, and was part of the
engineering team
assigned to the Antelope Valley Power Station (2- 500 MWe coal fired
units). Responsibilities included project management, engineering, and
contractor/vendor supervision.
Mr. Jacobson currently sits on the Board of Directors of Kootenai
Electric Cooperative, Idaho’s largest and fastest growing electric
cooperative.
Mr. Jacobson holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering
from North Dakota State University and is a graduate of the Certified
Trade Specialist Program at the Thunderbird – American Graduate School
of International Management.
Wally Jacobson can be contacted at 208-762-6789 or
Email Wally.
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schroeter
Jeffrey W. Schroeter
Mr. Schroeter has 27 years experience as an innovative business
executive responsible for the successful creation of over 8,000
megawatts of electric power generation throughout the U.S. His
entrepreneurial skill set includes keen development sense for
achievable business plans, negotiation of project specific agreements,
and identification/completion of all permitting, construction
licensing and financing requirements. His expertise ranges across a
verity of generation fuel sources – gas fired combined cycle,
pulverized coal and lignite fired circulating fluidized bed, and wind
generation. He is well known throughout the industry for IPP project
development with an attention to the discipline of non-recourse
financing.
Mr. Schroeter began his career at Texas Utilities, progressing from
staff operations, to mechanical projects, to generation resource
planning and, finally, commercial technical services. During this
period he advised industrial customers on cogeneration, performed life
cycle cost studies for TXU’s 19,500 MW power system, developed fuel
requirements for 975 MW of peaking turbines, supervised staff
engineers on improvement projects at 16 gas-fired plants, and
completed the power engineer training program. In 1991, he joined
Central and Southwest (now AEP), progressing from IPP project Owner’s
Engineer, to manager of system renewable resources and finally CSW
Energy Project Development. As Owner’s Engineer, he advised
development of the 68 MW Brush II, CO and 272 MW Fort Lupton, CO
projects. As Manager of Renewable Resources, he installed CSW’s first
6 MW wind farm and 200 kW solar photovoltaic system. At CSW Energy, he
managed development for a 105 MW NM peaking project, site licensing
activities for the 838 MW Northwest Regional Power Facility WA (with
Messrs. Anderson and Illich), and performed acquisition due diligence
for a 507 MW LNG project in Puerto Rico. In 1998, he joined Panda
Energy, as Vice President – Merchant Plant Development. He was initial
developer of the 1,000 MW Lamar TX project (now FPL Energy); 1,000 MW
Guadalupe TX project (now PSEG/TIE); the 1,000 MW Oneta OK (now
Calpine) with Mr. Anderson; the 2,200 MW Gila River AZ project and the
2,200 MW El Dorado AR project. He had the broad charge of assuring
that all projects could be non-recourse financed and was the key
architect of its development program which grew to a total
capitalization of about $2.5B. In 2000, he formed Genovation Group to
provide development consulting and asset acquisition due diligence and
in 2001 he formed Genova Power to develop gas combined cycle projects
and lignite CFB projects. Genova’s venture capital partners include
Hunt Power of Dallas. He led development of a 500 MW CFB mine-mouth
project in central TX with Alcoa where the project achieved a
commitment for $600M of non-recourse debt financing. In Arkansas,
Genova is developing a 550 MW combined cycle project which is fully
permitted, achieved a $300M revenue bond financing commitment and is
pending power sales.
Mr. Schroeter holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Texas A&M
University, is a Licensed Professional Engineer, completed
postgraduate courses in business and attended The Project Finance
Institute. He is past Chair of the ASME International Power Division.
He is past President and Board member of the Gulf Coast Power
Association. He has numerous awards including being named Dallas
Mechanical Engineer of the Year in 1989.
Jeff Schroeter can be contacted at 214-704-5243 or
Email Jeff.
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