Alternative and Renewable Energy

Industry Overview:

Consumers, governments, and society in general are pushing for cleaner, smarter ways to generate electricity, to heat water and spaces, to fuel vehicles, and to provide effective rural energy service. Many are embracing alternative and renewable energy sources – including wind, solar, hydroelectric, and even geothermal power – as potential sustainable replacements for traditional fossil fuel-based energy solutions.

Governments around the world have embraced the potential that alternative and renewable energy sources offer. For example, the European Union wants 20% of its electricity to come via alternative and renewable sources by 2020. In additional to environmental benefits, renewable resources in particular can provide energy security and reduce vulnerability to outages caused by natural disasters, or disruptions caused by political instability. Major technological accomplishments continue to advance this industry, especially in improving the economic feasibility of wide-scale implementation of alternative energy infrastructure.

App Common Applications:

Wind – turbines, wind farms, locations, etc.
Solar – active, passive
Solar – solar heating, solar voltaics, etc.
Hydroelectricity – dams, micro-dams, etc.
Marine energy
Cellulosic ethanol
Geothermal – hot-dry-rock geothermal power, etc.
Artificial photosynthesis
Biomass – wood, other raw materials
Synthetic fuels
Biofuels – solid biomass, liquid fuels, biogases, bioethanol, etc.
Environmental, governmental regulation
Sustainability

Solutions:

With almost 35 years as a top energy industry recruitment agency, Ropella is well-versed in the challenges companies face in their search to find highly qualified professionals. As talent acquisition specialists, we excel at attracting, recruiting and building relationships with potential candidates. Our executive search consultants stay abreast of current industry trends making Ropella a knowledgeable, efficient and effective partner for recruiting top energy talent.

A proven executive search firm, Ropella is dedicated to helping companies gain a competitive advantage by providing customized and strategic talent solutions. We leverage our industry expertise, proprietary smart search system and global network to deliver exceptional results quickly for even the most challenging searches. Successful industry leaders count on Ropella to find the right talent to drive their business forward.

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Alternative and Renewable Energy

The typical positions, roles and/or functions our search consultants serve include:

	Sales (such as; new business development, key account management, technical service, customer service, branch, district, region, national, global in scope).
	Marketing (such as market research, market analyst, consumer research, public relations, social media, communications, product management).
	Manufacturing (such as operations, production, engineering, plant design, process development, pilot plant, scale up).
	Research & Development (such as exploratory research, discovery research, synthesis, analytical, applications development, new product development, formulations, compounding, quality control, environmental, regulatory, health and safety).
	Administration (such as procurement, supply chain, logistics, human resources).
	Business Management (such as general management, executive, manager, director, vice president, c-suite and board member, commercial development, merger, acquisition, joint venture).
	Venture Capital / Private Equity (such as administration and finance, commercial development, executive level management, human resources, mfg., marketing, r&d, sales)

I speak for myself when I say that the Ropella “process” has been impressive with regard to other search firms and headhunters we’ve used in the past. Truly a dynamic process between the research efforts, skills surveys, marketing piece, and executive summaries.