1. Henrietta de Veer
Founder and Managing Partner, Adaptive Energy Strategies LLC
Henrietta de Veer has wide-ranging, multidisciplinary capabilities in results-oriented project analysis, integration and execution across a range
of distributed-energy-resource and smart-grid technologies, markets, customers and types of applications and solutions. She has significant
expertise in federal, state, utility and ISO regulatory, legislative, policy, incentive and compensation development; and project technical,
financial and risk identification/mitigation analysis to improve returns on investment of clean-energy projects. She has over 30 years of
experience as a managing securities principal, responsible for the development/execution of financial transactions such as multi-year,
platform-acquisition, debt and equity financing, M&A and corporate partnership transactions. Her focus has been on technology-driven
companies in rapidly changing industries, including those in highly regulated markets (med devices/biopharma, environmental/energy services
and insurance/fin services)
Areas of Expertise: Distributed Energy Resources (CHP, solar PV, energy storage, small wind, demand response/autoDR, distributed
intelligence), energy efficiency, grid modernization, smart grid/microgrid/district energy and wholesale and retail markets
Education
Certificate, Executive Corporate Financial Management, Harvard Business School, 1988
MBA Program, NYU Stern Business School, Finance, 1980 - 1982
Ph.D. and M.A., University of Chicago, International Economic Development, 1979 and 1974, NDLF and NSF Grant
M.A., Vanderbilt University, Japanese Studies, 1972
B.A., Clark University, Psychopharmacology, 1969, cum laude, Jonas Clark Fellowship
Recent Projects
• Managed the development/implementation for a major utility standardized technical and financial modeling and simulation tools for
assessing and selecting renewable projects under its PPA program (March 2012 – July 2013)
• Managed interconnection and SREC registration and on-going tracking processes in MA and CT (2012 – 2014)
• Developed and implemented internal financial modeling tools for solar PV and energy-storage projects (2012 – 2014)
• Developed and implemented ISO- and state-specific market-development plans (Northwest, Hawaii) for targeted roll-out of solar PV,
energy storage, CHP, autoDR and hybrid energy projects (2012 – 2014)
• Was responsible for energy-storage proposals in response to 2014 RFPs by HECO and KIUC for the partnership of Hitachi Americas, Prime
Solutions, and Demansys Energy (summer 2014)
• Was senior project manager for the development of a proposal through four stages of competition over a year for the Hawaii Department
of Education’s Master Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Master Plan
Additional Experience
• Board Member and Co-head, Regulatory/Policy Committee, Northeast Clean Heat and Power Initiative
• Member of Policy Committee, New York Battery and Energy Storage Technology Consortium
• Former Member, NYISO Distributed Energy Resources Working Group and current member, various Business Issues and Market Issues
Committees
• Member, ISO New England Distributed Generation Forecast Working Group
• Member of REV Platform Technologies, Market Issues, Microgrid and Wholesale Markets Working Groups (summer 2014)
• Member, DOE-funded Advanced Solar Forecasting Working Group, Fortune 500 Company
Sample of Regulatory Comments, Papers and Presentations
H. de Veer, Author: comments submitted to the NYS PSC and NYISO on behalf of NECHPI: 1) various whitepapers and analyses on microgrids,
wholesale markets and gas-electric market interactions during initial REV committee meetings (June 2014); 2) 7/22/14, 9/22/14 and 10/24/14
REV comments; 3) comments on case 14-E-0488 in the Matter of the Continuation of Standby Rate Exemptions (January 2015); 4) comments
on the Draft Generic Environmental Impact Statement filed December 2014; 5) Recommended New York State Interconnection Roadmap,
submitted to the NYS DPS 2/11/15; 6) comments on NYISO DER studies (2014); and 7) comments on Cases 13-M-0412, 07-M-0548, 05-M-0090
and 03-E-0188 in proceedings concerned with the NY Green Bank, The Energy Efficiency Portfolio Standard, the Retail Renewable Portfolio
Standard, and the Systems Benefit Charge (October 2013);.
H. de Veer, as a member of the NY-BEST Policy Committee, participated in drafting of 7/21 and 9/22/14 comments in the NYS REV proceedings.