EMERYVILLE, CA
Justin Raade Ph.D. from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and U.C. Berkeley is Appointed
GreenFire Energy Inc. today announced the appointment of Justin Raade Ph.D. to its Advisory Board. Dr. Raade is an experienced executive in solar power, energy storage, and waste heat recovery. As the VP of Engineering at Sunvapor, Inc. and President of his own consulting practice, Justin Raade Energy Consulting, he focuses on commercializing high impact, renewable energy technologies. Dr. Raade has 15 years of experience in concentrating solar power, energy storage and waste heat recovery.
Dr. Raade’s business strategy and management skills have been honed by real-world entrepreneurship and negotiating partnerships with Fortune 500 companies. He founded Halotechnics, Inc. to develop and commercialize energy storage technology and heat recovery applications. At Symyx Technologies, Dr. Raade investigated alternative energy technologies, including concentrating solar power, fuel cell reformers, and advanced industrial lubricants. Dr. Raade has an S.B. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and an M.S. and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley, in mechanical engineering.
“Dr. Justin Raade brings tremendous insight into solar thermal technology, energy storage and grid energy management to complement GreenFire Energy’s geothermal ECO2G™ technology. We are excited to have him on our Advisory Board,” says Joseph Scherer, chief executive officer, GreenFire Energy, Inc.
About GreenFire Energy, Inc.
GreenFire
Energy, Inc. offers an elegantly simple and standardized solution to
harvest the earth’s “thermal battery,” which is by far the largest
source of continuous renewable energy. GreenFire Energy’s proprietary
technology, ECO2G™, accesses the extremely large, hot and deep
geothermal resources that have been previously unreachable. ECO2G’s
modular scalable architecture fully exploits deep geothermal resources
to provide grid-scale power generation. Equally important, ECO2G
provides continuous yet flexible power that quickly responds to the
grid’s dynamically changing power requirements. Adding to its
advantages, ECO2G is also the most environmentally safe form of
grid-scale power.
GreenFire Energy, Inc. has been awarded two grants
by the U.S. Department of Energy. GreenFire Energy, Inc. is a privately
held company based in Emeryville, CA. Visit us at
www.greenfireenergy.com.
ECO2G is a registered trademark of GreenFire Energy, Inc. All other brands, products or service names are or may be trademarks or service marks of their respective owners.
Media Contact
John Muir
SVP Business Development
GreenFire Energy Inc.
888-320-2721
john.muir@greenfireenergy.com