Aaron Smith

Vice President of Development at Monarch Energy
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Aaron is a multi-faceted, analytical, and outspoken business professional in the renewable energy industry. I attended school with Aaron at Arizona State University and worked with him during our time at First Solar while he was in the Operations & Maintenance (O&M) group. He possesses a rare combination of charisma and leadership ability while evidencing sharp analytical, financial and technical skill-sets. Aaron was in charge of complex O&M economic models and sensitive financial information with which he aided the development and engineering teams at First Solar. He is now serving in a highly-demanding project development role securing long-term contracts and advancing a portfolio of multi-million dollar solar PV projects. I'd highly welcome the opportunity to work with Aaron again or recommend him to any team looking for unique capability and leadership.

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Experience

    • United States
    • Renewable Energy Semiconductor Manufacturing
    • 1 - 100 Employee
    • Vice President of Development
      • Sep 2022 - Present
    • Manager
      • Dec 2021 - Present
    • United States
    • Renewable Energy Power Generation
    • 700 & Above Employee
      • Nov 2020 - Dec 2021

      Led solar development across the southern U.S. commercializing over 1 GW of greenfield solar and storage projects including the Space City project outside Houston and the Double Run project in Georgia.

      • Jul 2019 - Nov 2020

      • Jan 2018 - Jun 2019

    • Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
    • 1 - 100 Employee
      • 2017 - Jan 2018

      Lead Project Developer for MidSouth and TVADiscovered and successfully negotiated option agreements on 3,000 acres worth of affordable, high quality greenfield sitesLed marketing effort of multiple assets for utility PPA RFPs as well as strategic divestment opportunities Perform pricing analysis for markets with little price transparency including bridging to successful bids in other markets by researching and quantifying differences in site costs, electricity tariffs, local tax regime, irradiance, etc.Spearheaded a project that challenged standard project assumptions which included running sensitivity analyses in First Solar's project finance model, directing engineering resources to run Monte Carlo evaluations of exceedance probabilities, and using outputs to perform a comprehensive cost/benefit analysis. Many of the recommendations resulting from this project were adopted by First Solar's executive team. Applied to First Solar's expected bookings over the next four years results in >$100MM in margin uplift. Show less

      • May 2016 - Apr 2017

      • Mar 2016 - Jun 2016

      Performed financial analysis and made pricing recommendations for services on over 3 GW of opportunities leading to over 1 GW contracted by analyzing plant design, PPA, interconnection agreements, etc As the account manager for two customers (Duke Energy Renewables and Swinerton Renewables), ensured all contractual obligations were met and successfully negotiated resolutions to numerous contractual disputesCreated service proposals on roughly 65 sites for customers that bridged commercial marketability and risk mitigation by working with a cross-functional team consisting of technical and commercial experts Show less

      • Apr 2014 - Mar 2016

Education

  • Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business
    Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Economics
    2008 - 2012
  • Arizona State University, W. P. Carey School of Business
    Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Business with a concentration in Global Politics
    2008 - 2012
  • Arizona State University
    2008 - 2012
  • Blue Valley North High School

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