Charles is a Senior Associate with RMI’s Climate Intelligence program, working to decarbonize heavy industry. His work includes advising industry clients to advance renewable procurement and coordinating with stakeholders to advance projects. Charles specializes in grid interconnection of large-scale distributed generation, as well as technical and financial modeling.
Before joining the Rocky Mountain Institute, Charles worked as an Engineer with Pure Power Engineering, designing 50MW+ of commercial & industrial solar projects across the US. Prior to his role as an engineer, Charles was a Fellow with Fraunhofer CSE’s Module Innovation Group, working on a DoE Sunshot initiative to reduce soft costs in solar installations.
Graduate Certificate, Sustainable Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
B.Eng., Mechanical Engineering, Stevens Institute of Technology, Hoboken, NJ
Boulder, CO
For years, manufacturers have watched with apprehension as the European Union debated a policy that could send shockwaves across the world’s heavy industries. Europe’s aim: to level the playing field between EU companies that pay for their carbon pollution and those overseas that don’t. Consider steel. Across Europe, steelmakers are…
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Pressure is building on companies to disclose the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that form both the direct and indirect carbon footprint of their operations. In aggregate, industrial supply chains are responsible for over 40 percent of all GHG emissions.
In both life and work, it’s important to reflect on your past accomplishments and how they inform your future journey. When RMI started its mining initiative five years ago, carbon reduction wasn’t on the radar for mining companies, and the renewable capacity on (or provided to) mine sites was…