Gary Groner

About Gary Groner

A dynamic leader and mentor, able to build strong teams and inspire individuals to strive…

Experience

1. Senior Manager

   NOVI Energy

   Feb 2017 — Present

   NOVI is an experienced developer and consultant of utility scale clean and renewable energy power and steam plants. We build, own, operate and maintain Combined Cycle Gas Turbines, Simple Cycle Gas Turbines, Combined Heat and Power plants, solar PV, biomass, biogas, hydroelectric, energy storage, and waste to energy facilities, globally. We are flexible to the needs of our customers and finding the right commercial structures to complete a project. Our expertise is in partnering with our customers to drive solutions that are technology based and tailored to ensure achievement of customer goals. We will find the best technological fit and have confidence in our integration of these ideas into your strategies. We are creative in helping customers diversify their electricity resources and strengthen reliability and surety of supply. We can assist in integrating end use customers into a utility network through new or existing CHP, renewables, or storage, helping to diversify while creating a valuable long term generation asset and lowering overall energy costs. Our renewable energy approach allows us to exploit tax incentives and benefits for you to take advantage. Utilizing my 30 years of expertise and energy management of hundreds of manufacturing sites around the world for top tier manufacturers, I am focused on the large C&I energy intensive customer to provide energy solutions and to reduce overall operating cost and power quality improvement. I also focus on the delivering solutions to the municipal, cooperative and utility markets where we can integrate solutions along with industrial customers to create significant opportunity for all parties and helping these utility providers create value and solve problems through asset development and optimization. I look forward to working with you to evaluate clean, renewable or sustainability projects, supply a thermal need, or overcome problems with power quality or reliability.

Education

• University of Wyoming

  Bachelor’s Degree, Sedimentary and Petroleum Geology

  1980 — 1985

• University of Wyoming

  Master’s Degree, Regulatory Economics

  1985 — 1986

Skills

• Cross-Functional Team Leadership
• Energy
• Supply Chain
• Sales Management
• Strategic Planning
• Business Process Improvement
• Supply Chain Management
• Strategic Sourcing
• Manufacturing
• Continuous Improvement
• Project Management
• Lean Manufacturing
• Six Sigma
• Process Improvement
• Contract Negotiation
• Change Management
• Operations Management