HACK 2021

Jim has been in the energy business since 1975 when he founded Energy Management, Inc. (EMI) and over the ensuing years he built EMI into one of the most successful privately held independent power companies in America. He recruited and managed a team of dedicated and highly motivated professionals that were able to complete the myriad and complex tasks of creating state-of-the-art power projects. Jim’s sense of timing and grasp of political and regulatory directions allowed EMI to develop some of New England’s first gas-fired cogeneration and independent power projects as well as the first generation of merchant electric plants in the United States.

Under Jim’s direction, EMI sold its gas-fired generation facilities in 2000 and shifted the company’s focus to developing renewable energy. Jim’s company developed the two largest biomass power projects in the U.S., each over one hundred megawatts. The company has also developed numerous commercial, industrial, and utility-scale solar energy and storage projects. Its affiliated company, SmartFlower Solar, was formed in 2016 and sells the Smartflower, an all-in-one energy system invented in Austria, for on-grid, off-grid, and solar electric vehicle charging applications across the globe to empower consumers to own and produce renewable energy independently for their homes, businesses, or institutions.

Jim is a graduate of Boston University’s School of Public Communications and worked for Warner Communications Corporation prior to founding EMI.