Paul Turner

At Hecate Energy, which is a Chicago-based renewable energy development company, Paul oversees the company's business development team who are responsible for early-stage project site identification and control, environmental permitting, transmission analysis and community engagement for some 50,000 MW of solar, battery storage and wind energy projects across the continental United States. Now totaling over 60 employees, Paul was among the first hires at Hecate, when the company was launched in 2012.
Before joining Hecate, Paul was a Managing Director at Peoples Energy where he led the development of multiple natural gas-fired combined cycle and simple cycle power plants, including the 1,150 MW COB Energy Facility near Klamath Falls, Oregon, and the 280 MW Valencia Energy Facility near Albuquerque, New Mexico. Both fully developed projects were sold, with Valencia being built by Public Service Company of New Mexico and COB sold to J Power.
Prior to Peoples, Paul was a principal at CornerStone Energy Advisors, which was the financial and strategic advisor to Sithe Energies in their acquisition of the Boston Edison generating portfolio in 1997 and the General Public Utilities generating portfolio in 1998.
After graduating from UW, Paul started his professional career in 1996 at PriceWaterhouseCoopers' utility practice in Chicago with an emphasis on mergers and acquisitions. Paul and his wife Karleen split time between Scottsdale, Arizona and Naperville, Illinois.
Paul holds a BSEE from the University of Illinois, an MSEE from New Mexico State University, and a Ph.D. in regulatory economics and environmental and natural resource economics from the University of Wyoming.