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Peter first entered the wind industry providing consulting on project financing, leveraging his experience in real estate development. Peter worked with Atlantic Renewable Energy Corporation in securing financing for the 30MW Fenner project, New York's third wind farm. In 1997 Peter formed Arcadia Wind Power, which developed the 181 MW Judith Gap project, Montana's first wind farm. Today Arcadia holds a portfolio of wind project assets located through out the country, and is the parent company of Bluewater Wind. Peter has also been a leader in the wind industry on the advocacy and policy front, serving on the Board of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) for eight years, co-founding and chairing Wind Power New York (now ACENY.org), and actively supporting successful efforts for a Renewable Portfolio Standard in New York and New Jersey. Peter is currently Chair of AWEA's Offshore Wind Working Group. Peter attended Harvard University, and began his career as a project manager for the City of New York, building and preserving affordable housing. Peter was a founder and Executive Director of the non-profit Solar Technology Institute, which worked with the UN, U.S. agencies, and religious organizations and other non-profit groups to provide training, technical assistance, and fundraising to make solar energy available in developing countries. He serves on the Board of the Greyston Bakery, a non-profit enterprise that creates jobs for disenfranchised residents of the inner-city, and which supplies the brownies for Ben and Jerry's Chocolate Fudge Brownie ice cream. A native New Yorker, Peter lives on Manhattan Island with his wife Dawn and son Andrew. | 