Andrew Price a partner and founding member of Beaver Ridge Wind LLC, the company that developed a 4.5 MW wind power project in the town of Freedom Maine. Beaver Ridge Wind achieved commercial operation in November 2008 and is now owned and operated as a partnership between the three founding members (Mark Isaacson, Richard Silkman and Andrew Price or “MIRSAP”) and Patriot Renewables, LLC. Beaver Ridge Wind will provide more than 12 million kWhs of clean Maine made renewable energy into the power grid each year.

Mr. Price is also the Senior Energy Analyst and Program Manager for Competitive Energy Services. CES helps clients strategically manage energy costs by assisting with the procurement of electricity, natural gas and other fuels in the competitive market. Mr. Price is also responsible for many of CES’s green initiatives including: demand response programs, economic analysis of energy efficiency and onsite renewable generation projects, and carbon benchmarking and monitoring.

Prior to joining CES in 2001, Mr. Price worked for 3 years as a power and fuels consultant at MRW & Associates in Oakland California. Mr. Price was born in Belfast Maine and raised in the mid-coast town of Montville. Mr. Price now lives in Portland with his wife and son.

Education: B.S. in Civil Engineering, Environmental & Water Studies Program (1997 w/Distinction) from Stanford University, and a B.A. in Physics and Environmental Studies from Bowdoin College (1995, summa cum laude).

Mark Isaacson is a founding partner in Beaver Ridge Wind, LLC, Maine’s second commercial wind farm and the first in the Central Maine Power Company service territory. Mr. Isaacson is also a founding member of GridSolar, LLC, Competitive Energy Services and Maine Renewable Energy. GridSolar proposes to install distributed solar generation in Maine to offset the need for expensive new transmission projects. Maine Renewable Energy is a retail electric supplier of 100% renewable electricity to the residential and small commercial market in Maine.

Mr. Isaacson began his career in the electric industry in 1980 by becoming a partner in two hydroelectric facilities in Maine – the Edwards Dam and the Worumbo Dam. Mr. Isaacson spent the first decade of his energy career turning the 900 KW Worumbo Dam into today’s 19.4 MW project. In 2004, the Worumbo project became the first in Maine to receive certification from the Low Impact Hydro Institute as low impact project. Mr. Isaacson spent the second decade of his career as a lead protagonist in the debate over the fate of the Edwards Dam and he negotiated the historic settlement of this debate in 1999, with the gift of the Edwards Dam to the people of Maine. Mr. Isaacson has extensive expertise in marketing as well as in the development of mathematical models. His recent modeling efforts have been concerned with the co-ordination of solar generation systems with utility load and fuel switching algorithms for large cogenerators.

Mr. Isaacson was born and raised in Auburn Maine and now lives in Cumberland.

Education: M.B.A., Marketing and Production, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL; B.A., History, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Dr. Richard Silkman is a founding member of Beaver Ridge Wind, LLC, an operational wind farm in the town of Freedom Maine. Dr. Silkman is also a founding member of GridSolar, LLC, Competitive Energy Services and Maine Renewable Energy. GridSolar has proposed an innovative alternative in Maine to expensive new bulk transmission upgrades in the form of strategically located distributed solar electric generation. Competitive Energy Services is a thriving energy services firm in Portland, Maine. Maine Renewable Energy is a retail electric supplier of 100% renewable electricity to the residential and small commercial market in Maine.

Dr. Silkman is a Ph.D. economist and a nationally recognized expert in the regulation of public utilities, the development of competitive energy markets and the development, licensing and operation of power plants, including hydroelectric generating stations. Dr. Silkman has served as an expert witness before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and a number of state public utilities regulatory commissions, as well as advised state legislatures on matters related to electric utility regulation and deregulation. The first private citizen member of the New England Power Pool (NEPOOL), he remains a Participant in NEPOOL. Previously, Dr. Silkman was appointed by Governor John R. McKernan, Jr. to direct the Maine State Planning Office, a cabinet-level office. He served as the chief policy advisor to the Governor on matters related to economic policy, energy, hydropower and river management policy, telecommunications regulation, state tax policy, health care regulation and cost-containment and land-use and natural resources policy.

Dr. Silkman was born in New York but was smart enough to move to Maine in 1983 to accept a position on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine. Dr. Silkman now lives in Scarborough.

Education: Ph.D., Economics, Yale University, New Haven, CT; M.A., Economics, Yale University, New Haven, CT; B.S. (w/ Distinction), Economics, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.