Stefanie Padgett

About Stefanie Padgett

Stefanie Padgett is Senior Vice President of Utility, Automotive OEM, and Electric Vehicle (EV) Fleet at Rhythmos leading business development. Rhythmos’ modern analytics platform brings predictability, flexibility, and smart energy management to the grid, enabling faster, more reliable, and cost-efficient EV adoption for fleets and Utilities. Stefanie Padgett is a highly accomplished executive and electrical engineering professional. She is a recognized subject matter expert in distributed infrastructure and renewable energy. Stefanie acquired her technical foundation and utility acumen by spending the first half of her career with ABB and GE supporting utilities in distribution, transmission, and generation. Over the last 10 years she has led three companies’ expansion strategies into new markets.This included defining, building, and executing service capabilities to lead NAES’ transition into Renewable Energy as the Vice President of Renewables. There she secured the first of its kind service contract for the largest solar plus storage project in the US, expected to reach over 2GWs.Before that, Stefanie internally developed O&M and asset management capabilities to support community solar assets for Nautilus Solar as the VP of Asset Management & Business Development.Stefanie transitioned from traditional power into renewables when she joined First Solar back in 2014. At First Solar, she led sales from origination and structuring to contract execution enabling First Solar to quickly become the leader in solar O&M services. Most recently, she led the integration of Stem Inc’s acquisition of Also Energy, which included consolidating solar and battery storage operations, products, and business functions. Stefanie love\'s that she is lucky enough to work in the industry that has the opportunity to make the biggest impact in solving the climate crisis. She is helping to lead the industry through this energy transformation, while normalizing discomfort to achieve transformative change. Normalized discomfort leads to risk, risk leads to failure, and failure leads to innovation.\"It is as wrong to deny the possible as it is to deny the problem.\"- Saleebey“I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.” –Thomas Edison told his friend Henry Ford in 1931

Experience

1. Resources Business Group Manager

   HDR

   Oct 2024 — Present · Phoenix, AZ, US

Education

• Arizona State University

  Professional Certificate in Sustainability Strategy, Sustainability

• The University of Texas at Austin

  BSEE, Electrical Engineering

  1998 — 2002

Skills

• Power Distribution
• High Voltage
• Transformer
• Plc
• Energy Management
• Smart Grid
• Power Generation
• Automation
• Electricity
• Electrical Engineering
• Scada
• Power Systems
• Energy
• Electricians
• Power Plants
• Power Transmission
• Engineering
• Renewable Energy