The Week in Deals
4 deals| Date | Deal Type | Tech | Seller / Sponsor | Buyer / Financier | Size | Location | Status | Notes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 2 | Utility PPA | Wind | Pattern Energy | SCE | 142.6 MW | NM | Closed | Broadview Wind sells its full output under two 20-year power purchase agreements with Southern California Edison totaling up to 297 MW. | |
| Jun 1 | Power Purchase & Offtake | Wind | RES Americas | General Mills | 100 MW | TX | Operating | Historical 2017-2022 corporate PPA — backfilled via press archive scrape May 2026. [Fact-check 2026-05-08: Developer note — RES Americas developed/built; Southern Power acquired July 2017. Cactus Flats total 148 MW (Cargill 100 MW share is a portion). Concho County TX/ERCOT confirmed.] | |
| May 31 | Tax equity | Wind | Enel Green Power North America | Bank of America Merrill Lynch / J.P. Morgan | $365M | MO | Closed | Enel Green Power signed a $365 million tax equity agreement with Bank of America Merrill Lynch and J.P. Morgan for the 300-MW Rock Creek wind farm in Atchison County, Missouri. | |
| May 31 | Utility PPA | Wind | Enel Green Power North America | Kansas City Power & Light / KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations | 300 MW | MO | Closed | Output and renewable energy credits from Rock Creek wind farm are sold to Kansas City Power & Light and KCP&L Greater Missouri Operations under two long-term power purchase agreements. |
Change of Control
8 movesMichael A. Brown joined as Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary at Clearway Energy, Inc. (from Vice President, Assistant General Counsel and Corporate Secretary, The New York Times Company)
Clearway Energy — one of the largest US clean-energy generation owners, with assets across 27 states — brought back a former in-house lawyer to take its top legal seat, succeeding retiring GC Kevin Malcarney. Brown returns from The New York Times Company, where he was assistant GC, after an earlier 2014-2021 stint at Clearway and NRG Yield.
Kevin P. Malcarney departed Clearway Energy, Inc. as EVP, General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Kevin Malcarney is retiring as Clearway Energy's top lawyer effective June 1, capping a tenure that spanned the company's growth into one of the largest US clean-energy owner-operators since he took the GC seat in 2018. He remains a non-executive employee through June 26; Michael A. Brown succeeds him.
Erik Johnson departed SOLV Energy as Chief Strategy Officer
Erik Johnson resigned as Chief Strategy Officer of SOLV Energy — the utility-scale solar EPC that went public in February 2026 — and transitioned to a non-executive employee role through year-end. No successor was disclosed in the 8-K.
Jing Nealis joined as Chief Financial Officer at NeoVolta Inc. (from Chief Financial Officer, SES AI Corporation)
NeoVolta, a San Diego-based battery-storage maker, hired Jing Nealis as CFO from EV-battery firm SES AI as it stands up domestic BESS manufacturing in Georgia (2 GWh initial capacity, targeting 8 GWh). She brings 20-plus years of energy-transition and manufacturing finance experience to the residential-to-utility/C&I expansion.
Steve Bond named Executive Vice President and President at NeoVolta Power LLC (from Chief Financial Officer, NeoVolta Inc.)
In the same announcement that named Jing Nealis CFO, NeoVolta's outgoing finance chief Steve Bond shifted to EVP and President of operating subsidiary NeoVolta Power LLC, taking direct charge of the company's Georgia battery-manufacturing buildout — a CFO-to-operations move that freed the finance seat.
Ravi Abbineni joined as Chief Financial Officer at ION Storage Systems (from Senior Vice President and CFO, JM Family Enterprises)
Maryland-based solid-state battery developer ION Storage Systems hired a finance chief from large privately-held JM Family Enterprises, signaling a push toward commercial scale-up of its solid-state cell technology.
Robert Vinje joined as Chief Operating Officer at Nextpower (from Chief Operating Officer, SOLARCYCLE)
Nextpower (the solar-tracker maker that rebranded from Nextracker in Nov 2025) hired SOLARCYCLE COO Robert Vinje as its COO — a SunPower and Amazon energy-operations veteran. Comp: $475K base, 70% target bonus from FY27, $4M FY27 equity award, $250K sign-on cash.
Marco Miller named Chief Project Development Officer at Nextpower (from Chief Operating Officer, Nextpower)
Nextpower's incumbent COO Miller shifts into a newly created Chief Project Development Officer role concurrent with Robert Vinje's COO appointment — reflecting the company's post-rebrand push into integrated power technology and project services.
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