Peter Mara Expert in Wind Energy and Wind Power
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Peter Mara, Vice President of Finance for Westerly Wind, LLC., is a wind energy specialist with over a decade of experience. He began his career during his college years, when he worked with ScottishPower in Glasgow, Scotland. Mr. Mara went on to work as a Senior Associate with John Hancock, an Associate with US Renewables Group and, finally, with Westerly Wind, LLC., for which he was a founding team member.
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- 1. Peter Mara Expert in Wind Energy and Wind Power Peter Mara is an expert in wind and energy project finance who helped form Westerly Wind LLC in 2009 while he worked for the US Renewables Group. As the company’s Vice President, he has helped facilitate over 800MW of wind energy projects. For years prior to Westerly Wind’s creation, Mara had been involved in helping alternative energy companies find funding for their important projects producing energy through renewable means across North America. As a Senior Associate of John Hancock Financial, he worked in the group that managed of assets across private debt, public debt in utility companies, project equity and infrastructure investments.
- 2. Peter Mara Venture Capital Investor Peter Mara is a champion of promoting alternative energy in North America. The venture capital community has funded significant amounts of capital into clean tech companies in the last 5 years. Venture capital in energy has been generally underserved due to the complex and time to bring new energy products or projects into the market. This costly adoption and capital intensive manner of energy projects has created issues for the typical venture investor. Without bridging the risk of these capital intensive, speculative investments, the innovative technologies that could create a material change in solving the world’s energy problems may prove difficult.
- 3. Peter Mara On Climate Change Peter Mara is active in finding investment solutions to combat the effects of climate change. Scientists have long warned all of us that the earth’s overall average temperature is rising like it never has in human history. Mara works for an investment firm providing funding to energy companies investing in alternative energy infrastructure throughout the North American continent. Mara was an original team member of Westerly Wind, LLC, set up to invest in these companies so that they can help lower the demand for energy created with fossil fuels.
- 4. Peter Mara Investing in Infrastructure Peter Mara is the Vice President of Finance for Westerly Wind, a part of US Renewables, which invests in alternative energy infrastructure so that energy companies trying to create new ways of producing clean and renewable energy can continue their important work. Mara studied Business Administration at Northeastern University, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude. Throughout his career, Mara has been using his knowledge and skill in investing and finance to help develop alternative energy infrastructure throughout North America. Infrastructure investing can provide strong risk adjusted returns and diversification for investors in developed or developing countries.
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