James Henahan
Senior Vice President | Commercial Analytics | Energy Transition
- Role
- Senior Vice President at Calpine
- Location
- Houston, TX, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About James Henahan
Senior executive with a track record of success leading diverse teams and initiatives, owning company-wide analytics, and strategic decision-making. Thrives in fast-paced, high-stress, entrepreneurial environments that leverage unique combination of commercial and technical experience. Significant prior experience with power plant engineering and design, dispatch modeling, and product development. Holds two advanced degrees and three energy-related patents.Specialties:• Energy market forecasting and analytics (power, natural gas, and renewables)• Asset valuation and optimization• Decarbonization of natural gas assets, including carbon capture and hydrogen• Battery storage technology evaluation• Deal structuring and pricing• Mergers and Acquisitions (including post-deal integration)• Risk Analysis• Gas turbine and combined cycle systems analysis, design, control, dispatch, and optimization.
Experience
Senior Vice President
Feb 2022 — Present
Currently leading a team of more than 30 direct and indirect reports charged with market analytics, pricing, and asset optimization. Also responsible for the strategy, recruiting, and management of Calpine’s leadership development program for recent college graduates, mentoring up to 10 analysts and associates at any given time.Key responsibilities include:• Low carbon generation technology and economics (namely CCUS and hydrogen)• Deal structuring and pricing• Battery storage strategy and technology selection• Economic evaluation of government regulations and energy market design changes• Long term supply/demand fundamental forecasts• Asset modeling and optimization (gas, wind, solar, battery storage, and geothermal)• Power transmission analysis• Geothermal production analysis
Education
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business
MBA, Business
2007 — 2009
University of Michigan
Masters, Mechanical Engineering
The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Advanced Management Program, Strategy, Leadership, Innovation
2019 — 2019
University of Michigan
Bachelors, Mechanical Engineering
Skills
- Quantitative Analytics
- Power Generation
- Energy
- Natural Gas
- Factory
- Root Cause Analysis
- Analytics
- Engineering
- Renewable Energy
- Economic Modeling
- Engineering Management
- Thermodynamics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Energy Markets
- Analysis
- Power Plants
- Gas
- Six Sigma
- Energy Policy
- Gas Turbines
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