As a critical component of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFC), domestic production of electrolyte materials marks a major advancement for South Korea’s energy sector. This achievement moves the country closer to establishing an independent SOFC market, reducing reliance on imports. By bridging key supply chain gaps, Bloom Energy is helping to enhance the technological competitiveness of South Korea’s fuel cell ecosystem and paving the way for the global expansion of its industry-leading Energy Server.

The milestone follows a historic agreement signed by the companies at the 2021 Korea Energy Expo. Three years later, they reconvened to celebrate the progress and the bright future ahead. In recognition of its support for this ongoing localization effort, KHNP presented Bloom Energy with a commemorative award. Korean companies that have significantly contributed to this initiative and its global reach also attended, further enriching the event.

What’s next for the South Korea fuel cell economy?

With domestic electrolyte materials production now established, the next crucial step is the successful processing of these materials for use in Bloom’s Energy Server. South Korean manufacturers are confident this final milestone will be reached by 2025. In the meantime, South Korean-produced electrolyte materials will begin to enter Bloom Energy’s supply chain throughout the remainder of 2024.

Attendees in front row starting with the 2nd person on the left: Hoon-jae Lee, CEO of KV Materials; Jeong-hoon Kim, Head of Solution BU at SK ecoplant; Sang-jo Yoon, Head of Green Business Division at KHNP; Satish Chitoori, COO of Bloom Energy; Se-jun Kim, Vice President of BloomSKfuelcell; and Kyung-soo Kim, Vice President of TNE Korea. Photo source: KHNP

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In May, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) took a bold and controversial step to accelerate development of new high-voltage power transmission lines across the nation.

A new rule levies novel requirements for interstate grid operators’ long-term planning, obligating advanced determination of “the transmission we know we will need in the future” and how it will be paid for.

But why is this so urgently needed?

The U.S. suffers from a severe dearth of adequate grid infrastructure. Our customers are telling us loud and clearly. Worse yet, the glacial speed at which new transmission lines are approved and deployed has led to widespread interconnection delays for celebrated renewable energy projects, fundamentally hampering our country’s capacity to respond to the climate crisis.

That same climate crisis also exposes our ancient electrical grids and their users to the specter of blackouts. A variety of new threats in the form of extreme, power-disrupting weather are presenting extraordinary challenges to a broad cross section of electricity consumers.

But it’s not just renewable energy projects that are on the losing side of this equation. From residential to industrial, from hospitals to data centers, virtually every large-scale land use project may be forced to endure months if not years of interconnection delays to local electric utilities, wreaking havoc to bottom lines and regional economies across America.

Additionally, the rise in the promising but energy intensive AI technologies that will transform our society will hit a wall without resilient, reliable and responsive new supplies of electricity. Recent reporting by The Washington Post detailed the stunning but nevertheless foreseen rise in carbon emissions associated with a booming AI sector that is now “exhausting the power grid.” In fact, a recent Goldman Sachs study found that data centers will consume 8 percent of all electricity generated in the United States by 2030. Our nation’s aging grids are in such a dire state and our electrical generation capacity is so far from meeting demand that coal power plants are being resuscitated to power the growth of the high performing computing data centers that support these new technologies.

That is why FERC’s new transmission and cost allocation rule represents a meaningful and desperately needed step towards upgrading America’s electric grid. However, because this problem was decades in the making, the regulation’s desired results will unfortunately take a similarly long amount of time before they are broadly experienced.

However, the American economy cannot wait for the benefits of FERC’s action to be realized. Leaders in burgeoning high tech industries– artificial intelligence, data processing, chip manufacturing – refuse to accept their critical facilities must await painstakingly slow interconnections to local electric utility infrastructure before they become operational. Instead, they are choosing Bloom Energy.

Fuel cells can play a crucial role as low emissions power sources where additional generation resources are needed. Fuel cells generate electricity through an electrochemical process rather than combustion. This nearly eliminates the release of harmful air pollutants that cause respiratory issues. One of the last clean energy technologies predominantly manufactured in the United States, fuel cells also significantly reduce carbon emissions compared to the traditional power grid that often relies on the combustion of fossil fuels to generate electricity.

Our Series 10 Energy Server offers customers an immediate solution that meaningfully circumvents the same crippling “Time to Power” challenges FERC’s action aims to solve in the long-term. In an era of widespread energy availability constraints, our products’ capacity to deliver on-site, off-grid power generation that is clean, affordable, and reliable fundamentally changes the way America can do business.

While Bloom Energy celebrates the federal government’s decision to take head-on long term grid planning, we’re here to support the American economy in the meantime.

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Last week, KR Sridhar, PhD delivered the commencement speech to the more than 2,000 graduates of the University of Illinois’ Grainger College of Engineering. And on May 25th he will also be recognized by the University of Delaware with an honorary degree for personal and professional achievement.

“It is a true privilege to participate in both events and I deeply appreciate the invitations and honors from these two great universities,” said Sridhar, who holds a Master of Science in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

Sridhar told students at the University of Illinois commencement that the workforce of the future will be shaped by their ingenuity and commitment to fresh thinking.

“As you embark on your journey, think in terms of abundance,” Sridhar told the graduating seniors last week where he delivered a visionary commencement speech.

Sridhar described the “genius of ‘and.’” when it comes to our future energy equations. Energy abundance results from explicit choices that require thinking in terms of “and” instead of “or.” In other words, future leaders like the graduates he spoke to should free themselves from worldviews revolving around false choices and scarcity. Instead, Sridhar explained, engineering graduates ought to utilize their education to deliver solutions not only for themselves and their families, but for the broader communities in which they live, and perhaps even for the benefit of the entire planet.

Sridhar explained that this thinking is particularly relevant to future leaders of the engineering profession because they are uniquely equipped to create, improve, and implement technological innovations to society’s most vexing challenges.

In fact, it was with this mindset of abundance and the “genius of and” that Sridhar formed the foundational vision for Bloom Energy: a vision for clean and reliable and affordable and accessible energy for the entire planet. To Sridhar, the elements of this outlook are not mutually exclusive – instead, they can and should be pursued simultaneously. This aspirational sense of what could be is the foundation of what he hoped to instill in the Illinois engineering graduates.

The University of Delaware is no stranger to Sridhar and Bloom’s approach to energy abundance. Under Sridhar’s leadership, Bloom expanded its manufacturing operations into Delaware in 2013 when it converted an abandoned industrial site into a state-of-the-art, green tech facility where the Bloom Electrolyzer™ and Bloom Energy Server® are produced.

Bloom’s workforce in Newark, Delaware has grown from 1 to nearly 800 over the past 10 years, and its growth has been supported by strategic investments and partnerships with the University of Delaware. Expanding on their longstanding partnership, Bloom Energy entered into an MOU with the university in 2023 focusing on research development and student and faculty engagement, and an expanded business partnership with the University of Delaware Department of Athletics, Community, and Campus Recreation.

As young engineers of the future earn diplomas and cross commencement stages across the country this spring, Bloom Energy and KR Sridhar encourage them to never lose sight of what’s possible. “Congratulations to all graduates – the world looks forward to what you will achieve,” he said.

The Engineering convocation ceremonies can be viewed on the University of Illinois website:

• Engineering Convocation 2024 Part 1 (illinois.edu) Speech begins at 35:20
• Engineering Convocation 2024 Part 2 (illinois.edu) Speech begins at 37:00

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There is some uncertainty in the carbon budget, based on the associated warming trajectory, but the reality is sobering. The latest analysis in the journal Nature suggests that for a 50% chance of keeping warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius, the carbon budget is approximately 250 GtCO2, equal to approximately six years of current CO2 emissions (source). This new figure is half the size of the estimated carbon budget in 2020 and reinforces the urgency to act.

In last year’s Sustainability Report, we devoted time to address the importance of the concept of the Time Value of Carbon, which places a premium on near-term climate action considering the uncertainty and risk associated with the pace and extent of climate action. Bloom has long been an advocate of pragmatic, near-term emission reductions, which is why we provide avoided emissions modeling in our annual sustainability report. This latest analysis tells us there has never been a more important time to act quickly, decisively, and at scale to achieve emissions reductions wherever possible, but particularly in the energy sector, which contributes three quarters of global carbon emissions (source).

The world is rightfully focused on a long-term shift to renewable solutions, but there are very significant barriers to the speedy transformation of the system that are misaligned with the realities of our remaining carbon budget. We are struggling to interconnect new projects, build the high voltage transmission capacity needed to move renewable power to load centers and integrate firm baseload power solutions generally. Our policy preferences seem to suggest that we have until 2045 or 2050 to make the necessary changes. The reality is that we now have until 2030…maybe. In order to extend our time horizon and ration our remaining carbon budget to buy the energy sector and the world time for systemic evolution, we need to find emission reductions, and we need to find them now.

So, this Earth Day, we are releasing our fourth sustainability report highlighting ongoing efforts to drive near-term impact, transform the energy sector, and evolve our company in response to this historic moment. The report outlines our strategic approach, highlights our ongoing product innovation, details our social and environmental impact and breaks down how our company is evolving for scale. Three important topics covered in the report are linked to broader themes in the industry and policy environment: avoided emissions, climate risk and a just transition.

Avoided Emissions

Each Energy Server deployment displaces power supplied to our customers from an alternative source, typically centralized power grids. Each year, we calculate the avoided emissions from our projects using project-based approaches outlined in the Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol (source). This year our net emissions were -992,481 tonnes of CO2e from our projects with another 120,000 tonnes avoided from our certified gas program.

With the creation of lifecycle accounting requirements from the federal government to facilitate distribution of project support from the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), acceleration of 24/7 carbon free energy goals, the GHG Protocol is poised to evaluate the addition of an avoided emissions accounting framework within its Scope 2 guidance revision.  This is something we at Bloom wholeheartedly support.  Learn more about our approach to this important topic here.

Climate Risk

A new addition to our 2023 report is our first forward scenario analysis focused on quantifying inherent physical climate risks and our exposure to carbon pricing across a sample of our facilities, projects, and supply chain.

We used the Shared Socioeconomic Pathways scenarios released along with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s sixth assessment report published in 2021 to inform the analysis. Our results demonstrate the magnitude of potential impact across each scenario and time horizon, providing insight into the extent of risks posed at the different locations as well as the change from historic data. Our assessments target 2030 and 2050 milestones at 13 Bloom business locations in the U.S. and internationally.

As we look ahead, there are new regulatory requirements affecting Bloom and all other large companies in the U.S. Both the state of California and the Securities and Exchange Commission have mandated more comprehensive reporting requirements in the last few months.  Both regulatory disclosure programs are focused on climate related risk reduction and our efforts to deepen our climate risk reporting are designed to get ahead of these requirements and advance our understanding of how and when climate related risks will impact our business.

Just Transition

Finally, Bloom is working to develop partnerships in the various communities in which it operates. These are relationships we hope will help drive ideal outcomes for workers, community members, businesses, and local governments that have been impacted negatively by the combustion of fossil fuels.

We celebrated our 10th anniversary at our Delaware assembly facility. In that time, our local workforce has grown to nearly 800 from 1, revolutionizing a legacy automotive facility into a facility driving the clean energy economy. Our employees successfully delivered our 15,000th Energy Server™, the solid oxide fuel cell equipment that has been the centerpiece of our commitment to making clean, reliable electricity affordable to all. We spent 2023 talking about the work being done in Delaware and the colleagues who make it happen and we go further in this year’s sustainability report.

We have also expanded our production capacity at our Fremont, Ca., manufacturing facility and are very pleased to report that our application for a Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit Allocation under Internal Revenue Code Section 48C(e) for Fremont was granted at $75,300,000.

We appreciate the opportunity to highlight the important work we do each year as we grow our company into a leader in the energy transition.  Thank you for your interest and engagement.

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The IM100 Award acknowledges the top 100 individuals contributing to the data center infrastructure sector in meaningful and measurable ways, setting new standards for sustainable, educational and innovative practices. The award honors both Sridhar and Barber’s contributions toward delivering reliable and sustainable power for the digital economy, especially in the face of growing energy demands spurred by artificial intelligence (AI) and high-density workloads.

This iMasons recognition celebrates the success of Bloom’s Green Notes program, which has secured over $250 million for clean energy data center projects globally, and highlights the pivotal roles that Sridhar and Barber have played in Bloom’s growth within the data center vertical. Sridhar’s leadership in inclusivity and community involvement has been a cornerstone in creating a diverse workforce, while Barber’s deep industry expertise has been crucial in addressing sustainability, skyrocketing energy demands and power challenges presented by the expansion of AI and global power constraints.

“The use of AI is growing rapidly across all segments of our society,” Sridhar said during Bloom’s recent earnings call. “This will exponentially increase energy demand in data centers over the next decade.” Sridhar noted that the acceleration of AI adoption and demand for compute power, combined with the imbalance in grid reliability, is creating a strong case for timely and reliable primary power.

In addition, the iMasons IM100 Award testifies to Bloom’s dedication to driving innovation and sustainability in the digital infrastructure space. With the recent launch of the company’s Series 10 offering, Bloom has set a new industry standard for reliable and sustainable power solutions, providing at least 10MW of guaranteed, always-on power at a flat rate and a short, 5-year term — a critical feature for data centers facing complex growing power demands and net-zero goals.

“Winning the iMasons IM100 Award is a tremendous honor for KR, Bloom and myself,” said Jeffery Barber, VP of Global Data Centers. “It symbolizes not just our past achievements but foreshadows the impact we hope to bring to the industry, setting new benchmarks for reliable, resilient and sustainable power. We look forward to collaborating with iMasons and its members to pave the path ahead for future generations.”

The complete list of IM100 winners spans 15 countries and 68 companies and can be found here. For more information about Bloom Energy for data centers, visit our website.

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The time value of carbon concept states that greenhouse gas emissions reduced today are worth more than reductions promised in the future due to the escalating risks associated with the pace and extent of climate change. The concept has a long history, but recently it has been championed by environmental, social, and governance (ESG) focused investors, whose work depends on accurately assessing the value that companies can create far into the future, based on assets and liabilities they have today.

Like investors, policymakers also need to convert concerns about climate urgency into an actionable variable. As climate impacts worsen and governments and institutions strive for net-zero emissions by 2050, emissions reductions or CO2 removals from the atmosphere in the years approaching 2050 could become irrelevant. Why? Because those reductions may come too late to avoid climate tipping points and therefore may not help us align with our preferred warming trajectories. Current carbon reductions should be weighed more heavily than future projections.

Load growth still rising

Reducing emissions is most certainly urgent. Despite all the attention, pronouncements, and policy action, CO2 emissions have continued to rise. In fact, global energy-related emissions reached a new high of over 36.8 Gt in 2022. There is a potent mix of issues coming together to prevent rapid decarbonization of the energy sector. First, load growth continues to increase, with massive expansion expected to continue as buildings and the transportation sector embrace electrification and extreme weather intensifies. Incentives under the Inflation Reduction Act are expected to increase demand for electricity 30% by 2030. Secondly, we’ve underinvested in the infrastructure needed to integrate more renewables and new forms of low-carbon power quickly. And third, the reduction in clean firm baseload power driven by nuclear retirements and underperforming hydro assets is not easily replaced with intermittent generation sources.

In the United States, the increasing lack of reliability of the electric grid, unrealistic optimism about the rate of renewable penetration and resulting expansion of dirty back-up solutions have created a confused policy and regulatory environment and exposed considerable uncertainty around decarbonization timelines. While policymakers grapple with the realities of a challenging energy transition, they should all be able to align around the importance of near-term carbon reductions.

To date, we’ve used support for renewables as a proxy for decarbonization, but as the energy transition unfolds, it’s clear that type of blunt characterization is insufficient to support the necessary sector transformation. We need low carbon power in specific places at specific times. We need to deeply understand transmission constraints and develop sophisticated siting strategies. And most of all, we need to understand what really happens on the grid in response to new capacity additions or changes in demand.

For too long, the world has embraced carbon accounting systems, leadership programs, and environmental instruments that don’t reflect the avoided emissions of their activities. That has to change if companies and policymakers want to drive real emissions reductions in the near-term or consider the time value of carbon. Knowing the emissions impacts of any particular project or intervention is deeply empowering and allows leaders to break free of ideology to seek out the most transformative solutions.

Policymakers need to consider the impacts of new electrification policies, including those related to building electrification, EV incentives, and hydrogen production through the lens of the “emissionality.” Emissionality is a concept pioneered by WattTime that stresses the importance of understanding the variability in marginal emissions by region and time and encourages us to precisely consider avoided emissions driven by new energy projects.

Corporate plans should factor in emissionality

Emissionality isn’t just relevant for policymaking. The voluntary procurement of clean energy by corporates has and will continue to be an important driver of energy sector transformation. Corporates and other parties should also consider the emissionality of their investments to maximize the potential climate benefit and transformation potential of their energy procurement. A white paper recently published by energy consulting firm TCR, investigates the emissions impacts of various procurement strategies and advocates for use of emissionality in decision making and carbon-matching in market-based procurement. Some companies have already begun this journey, but the lack of avoided emissions reporting capability in Scope 2 inventories will be a barrier for wider adoption.

Fortunately, the GHG Protocol Standards are entering a significant revision period and we, along with other industry leaders, are recommending that avoided emissions reporting be institutionalized in the new guidance. Bloom Energy has for many years worked with research partners to produce project-based avoided emissions assessments from our distributed fuel cell projects. That’s why we take the step in our sustainability reporting to disclose both absolute and avoided emissions to highlight the near-term impact of our solutions on their local grids.

Near-term avoided emissions must be our collective north star as we strive to create a flexible energy system capable of arming policymakers and market participants with the most sophisticated tools to drive the most immediate emissions reductions today.

Stephen Lamm is Bloom Energy’s Senior Director of Sustainability

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Drawing on locally sourced, flexible American manufacturing, Bloom is able to bring its supply chain closer to its world-class manufacturing hubs in Delaware and California, helping enhance Bloom’s ability to meet the demands of its growing global customer base and bringing the world closer to a net-zero energy future.

A number of local dignitaries and Vital executives were present at the Vital/FHR open house at the new facility, including Bowling Green Mayor Mike Aspacher, as well as Michael Xiong, Managing Director of the Americas, Vital & FHR North America, and Mark Zhu, President of Vital Thin Film Materials. Satish Chitoori, Bloom Energy’s Senior Vice President, Head of Global Procurement and Supply Chain, also attended, as well as representatives from government, universities, and contractors. After the ribbon cutting, all were invited to tour the Vital/FHR Bowling Green office and production areas.

The company, a subsidiary of Vital Materials, makes materials and vacuum coating systems for a wide range of uses, including solar, display, automotive, MEMS, sensors, photonics, and wearable/decorative products, and it will use that expertise to provide manufacturing services to Bloom. Vital’s investment at Bowling Green is designed to reduce its inventory costs, shorten lead times, and secure critical supply chains for key customers like Bloom. The new facility will also serve as an engineering center of excellence for next-generation medical imaging devices.

“The grand opening of the Vital/FHR Bowling Green site is a key milestone for Vital Group’s expansion into North America,” said Xiong. “We will continue to invest heavily in our global manufacturing footprint and R&D, enabling Bloom Energy to achieve tomorrow’s clean energy platforms, with a reliable and cost competitive supply chain.”

As Bloom has repeatedly noted in its regulatory filings, its supply chain has grown to include high-quality suppliers that support automotive, semiconductor and other traditional manufacturing organizations in the United States, Asia, Europe and India. Its operations require raw materials and, sometimes, services that require special manufacturing processes.

Although shocks to supply chains were common during the COVID-19 pandemic, Bloom’s supplier base and supply chain remained strong, resulting in no significant supplier disruptions and no impact on manufacturing or delivering its American made goods to its customers. As head of Global Procurement and Supply Chain at Bloom Energy, Chitoori works to strengthen and enhance supply chains, preventing disruptions and limiting impact on operations and costs. He was pleased to welcome Vital/FHR to the ranks of Bloom suppliers on June 28.

“Bloom is constantly working to expand and improve its supply chain, both in the U.S. and abroad,” Chitoori said. “Adding Vital/FHR will support the growth in demand that we are seeing for the Bloom Energy Server, our fuel cell platform, and prepare us to meet the building interest in the Bloom Electrolyzer.”

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“Humanising Energy,” a series of 12 short films, spotlights the organizations and communities embracing the move towards more renewable sources of energy, like those at Bar 20 Dairy Farms in Kerman, Calif. The Bar 20 film follows owner Steve Shehadey and his daughter Bonney, as they discuss the challenges and opportunities of running their multi-generational dairy business. The Bloom Energy project, winner of the American Biogas Council’s “Project of the Year” and the 2022 US Dairy Sustainability award, uses renewable biogas from the farm’s cows to provide all the electricity needed to run the operations.

The film is presented by the World Energy Council and produced by BBC StoryWorks Commercial Productions for Bloom Energy. The series is the outcome of two organizations with rich 100-year histories shining a light on today’s rapidly changing energy landscape and showcasing clean and inclusive energy transitions around the world.

Dr. Angela Wilkinson, Secretary General and CEO of the World Energy Council, said, “The debate around clean energy transitions too often talks about grand roadmaps at a macro-level and leaves out the human element of stories across the world and what people are doing right now. The “Humanising Energy” series fills this gap by bringing people back to the center of the conversation and demonstrating how diverse communities are responding to the challenges of climate change.”

The film can be viewed here: https://www.bloomenergy.com/biogas-energy/

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James Roth

James Roth is the new Senior Vice President of Global Government Affairs and Policy. In his role, Roth is responsible for policy frameworks that move the energy transition forward. Working in tandem with Bloom’s regulatory and marketing teams, he will develop and manage legislative and regulatory policy to build new market opportunities. Roth will lead Bloom’s engagement in Washington, D.C., and in foreign capitals as the company expands its markets overseas.

“We are excited to welcome James into the Bloom family,” said KR Sridhar, Bloom Energy’s founder, Chairman and CEO. “James has successfully driven policy for corporations and nonprofit organizations at the highest levels of the legislative and executive branches, and world has collaborated with governments officials around the world to solve pressing policy challenges. We look forward to James being a part of Bloom Energy’s mission to move the world toward a carbon-free future while achieving reliability and economic growth.”

We look forward to James being a part of Bloom Energy’s mission to move the world toward a carbon-free future while achieving reliability and economic growth.
KR Sridhar, Bloom Energy’s founder, Chairman and CEO

Roth joins Bloom from Conservation International (CI), a global environmental NGO focusing on science, policy, and partnerships with key stakeholders. During his five years as Senior Vice President, Global Policy & Government Affairs, Roth led key efforts across U.S. and international policy, managing teams in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. He led teams that successfully negotiated a key provision of the Paris Agreement and negotiated carbon trading rules for civil aviation. Prior to CI, Roth led government affairs for Starbucks Corporation, where he managed advocacy efforts on all federal, state and local matters. Roth is a veteran of the legislative and executive branches of government. In Congress, he served as Chief of Staff, Legislative Director, and Senior Policy Advisor to Senator Evan Bayh of Indiana. Prior to the Senate, he worked in the Executive Office of the President of the United States Trade Representative. Formulating trade policy in the Clinton and Bush administrations, Roth helped to negotiate trade agreements with countries in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. An attorney, Roth began his career in private law practice in Washington, D.C.

A published author, Roth’s book “Blessed One” is the true story of Madalitso Muthiya, the first Black African to play in the U.S. Open Golf Championship. Earlier this year, Roth received the U.S. Golf Association’s Herbert Warren Wind Award, the organization’s highest literary honor “to recognize and honor outstanding contributions in research, writing and publishing about golf.”

Brian Vanderbloemen

Brian Vanderbloemen is Bloom’s Vice President of Government Affairs and Policy and will lead Bloom’s federal efforts, which will involve working with a range of government entities, including the U.S. Congress, Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Energy, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and White House. His responsibilities include direct engagement with policy makers as well as building coalitions with trade associations, outside consultants, and interested stakeholders. In addition, he will collaborate with Bloom’s General Counsel to engage with the Treasury Department regarding implementation of the Inflation Reduction Act and with the DOE on the implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act.

Vanderbloemen brings six years of experience working at the SAS Institute, where he helped lead the company’s federal government policy initiatives. He identified and supported the alignment of SAS’s software, including artificial intelligence and machine learning solutions, with the federal government’s legislative and regulatory agenda. Prior to joining SAS, Vanderbloemen had over 10 years of experience as an energy policy consultant to several Fortune 500 electric utility companies, including Duke Energy, Dominion, Vistra Corp. and Southern Company. Brian started his career on Capitol Hill, where he spent almost a decade as Senior Policy Advisor to Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina. Notably, Brian was the lead negotiator for Burr in House-Senate negotiations on the Energy Policy Act of 2005.

Roth and Vanderbloemen will be based in Washington, D.C.

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