Mr. Krapels is a principal in developing a second 660MW HVDC connection – the Hudson Transmission Project – between PJM and New York City. This project was selected by the New York Power Authority in its 2005 RFP process for New York City capacity. In late 2006, he established and was named Chairman of the New England Independent Transmission Company, which is developing another major HVDC transmission line in New England, the Green Line. In 2008, he joined several partners in the development of Viridity Energy, a company dedicated to developing projects that couple intermittent energy sources with demand response programs.  Through controlled demand and distributed generation, Viridity uses smart grid technology to optimize power consumption of large campus-like institutions, such as universities or industrial complexes, in order to control both energy resources and demand simultaneously at multiple locations.

A former energy consultant and advisor, he has provided valuation and due diligence services to many prominent investors in the energy arena.  Mr. Krapels has also assisted major utilities, end users, and government agencies in the risk management sector of the energy industry.   However, it was his work advising clients on the importance of the location of energy assets that led him to the field of transmission. He received his Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University, his M.A. at the University of Chicago, and his B.A., at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A native of the Netherlands, he is now a U.S. citizen and makes his home with his wife, Sarah Emerson, and their two sons in Andover, Massachusetts.

Mr. Conant has worked as a Senior Consultant for Stone & Webster Management Consultants where he prepared due diligence analysis for major power asset transfers, including coal, natural gas, and hydroelectric power plants and natural gas pipe lines. Prior to joining the private sector Steve worked 12 years in local, state, and federal government, including three years for the U.S. House of Representatives. Mr. Conant’s experience includes environmental permitting for major capital projects, including air permitting, power plant licensing, and hazardous waste remediation. Mr. Conant holds a Master’s degree in Urban and Environmental Policy from Tufts University.

Before moving the asset side of the energy business, Mr. Sanderson spent six years providing consulting and market advisory services to a range of clients across the energy value chain, and three years on the energy trading desk of a major hedge fund. In these roles, he was responsible for modeling supply, demand, price, basis, analyzing numerous market-related issues, and communicating his views on the markets to clients and traders. Mr. Sanderson holds a BS and MS in Chemical Engineering from MIT, and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

As counsel to former New Jersey Governor Corzine, he helped prepare the State’s energy master plan and provided legal and policy analysis on the State’s initiatives to upgrade the grid, spur renewable energy projects, redevelop brownfields, and increase public and private infrastructure investments. As a senior attorney during Mayor Bloomberg’s first term in New York City, Mr. Bruno led the team that won dismissal of four twenty-year old class action lawsuits and revitalized a 50-member legal department. Before entering government, he was a regulatory lawyer and litigator for nine years and clerked for a federal judge for one year. Mr. Bruno has also developed 195 units of low and moderate income housing in New York City.

Mr. Bruno graduated with honors from Swarthmore College where he won a Watson fellowship and cum laude from New York University School of Law where he was awarded a Hays fellowship. He has lived in France, Ghana, and Brazil and is fluent in French and Portuguese.