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Mr. Hurd formulates and
executes the firm�s long-term strategic objectives and maintains a
management culture that provides appropriate governance and execution.
Concurrent with these activities, Mr. Hurd remains actively involved in
taking on a variety of project assignments.
Since 1980 Mr. Hurd�s engineering and business experience have been
focused on energy production systems. He has managed and conducted a
broad range of technical advisory services for electric utilities,
municipalities, independent power producers, and lending institutions on
existing and green-field projects in the United States and abroad. His
work spans the energy sector from renewable energy to central
generating stations. His technology expertise is in solar and biomass
technologies, combustion turbines, geothermal energy, reciprocating
engines, fluid bed combustion systems, and conventional solid fuel
boilers. Accomplished at building high performing business teams, he
has a successful track record of envisioning, contracting, designing, and
executing professional services for complex energy projects.
R E P R E S E N T A T I V E EXP E R IE N C E
Due Diligence. Over the past 18 years Mr. Hurd has executed all aspects
of due diligence from pre-financial closing to annual operations reviews.
He has been involved with single project financings totaling $1.7 billion.
He has reviewed several first-of-a-kind technology applications for
renewable and conventional energy projects and has evaluated U.S.
Department of Energy�s Clean Coal Technology Program projects and
has worked with US, Japanese and German export credit agencies.
Project Turn-around. Mr. Hurd has provided advisory services
supporting legal counsel, owners and lenders on distressed projects in
operation and under construction. He has assessed a variety of potential
operating scenarios and construction completion alternatives on both
solid fuel and combustion turbine projects based on proposed recovery
strategies.
Project Development. Mr. Hurd has assisted independent power
producers and municipalities with engineering, procurement, and
construction contract negotiations; preparation of performance
specification for equipment bidding and inclusion in EPC contracts; bid
evaluation; thermal cycle development; dispute resolution and O&M
program assessment.
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