Dan Connors

Dan Connors is President of Renewable Energy Strategies, a consulting firm offering advisory services to help firms grow in renewable energy and energy efficiency, including business development, economic and environmental analysis of proposed renewable energy and energy efficiency projects, strategic planning, business development, business plan preparation, fund raising and technology commercialization.

Dan is an experienced renewable energy professional with general management experience from leadership of an entrepreneurial technology startup to a successful acquisition and repositioning a small publically held company to participate in the renewable energy markets. Dan has extensive business development and strategic planning experience in emerging and established markets and experience with intellectual property and technology commercialization across a range of technology sectors:

Technology Sectors
• Renewable Energy
• Fuel Cells
• Hydrogen Infrastructure
• Solar PV
• Solar Thermal
• Electric Vehicles
• Batteries
• Energy Efficiency Programs/Retrofits
• Power Supplies for Military Apps
• Distributed Power Generation
• Central Power and the Grid
• Biomass to Energy
• Wastewater Treatment
• Air Pollution Control

Recent areas of concentration include Solar PV and Solar Thermal projects, fuel cells for stationary power, analysis and presentation of project economics to investors. Substantial work to help determine best technology, supplier, location, economic return and risk factors with consideration of utility tariff structure, demand charges, renewable energy credits (RECS), state and federal tax credits (ITC or PTC), accelerated depreciation (MACRS).

Dan’s background includes 30 years of progressive experience in traditional and renewable energy systems in engineering, sales, sales management, and general management roles. Dan holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from Manhattan College and a MBA/Marketing from Iona College.