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Vice President of Operations
Acciona Energy USA Global
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Krys Rootham is Vice President of Operations at Acciona Energy. He is responsible for overseeing the operations and maintenance of Acciona’s renewable portfolio consisting of 12 Wind Projects and one Concentrated Solar facilities that produce a combined total of 1044 MW of electricity. Mr. Rootham also serves as the Regulatory Compliance Officer for all Acciona North America operations.
Before joining Acciona Energy in 2014, Rootham served as Managing Director of Wind Generation for NRG/Edison Mission Group and as Operations and Maintenance Director for BP Wind Energy. Prior to those assignments he was Wind Service Director for Siemens Energy in the Americas. Rootham began his career in 1987 at Westinghouse Electric Corp, first as a field service engineer and then a generator design engineer. He has more than 30 years in the energy industry on a global scale overseeing nuclear, coal, hydro, gas turbine and heavy industrial activities.
Rootham holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University, a B.A. in Physics from Edinboro University in Pennsylvania and earned an MBA from the University of Pittsburgh – Katz Graduate School of Business.
Krys lives in Naperville, Illinois with his wife Tracy, in his leisure time Krys enjoys cooking, home projects, woodworking and motor racing.