Vice President of Project Development
Plug Power
Brenor Brophy joined Plug Power in 2020 as VP of Project Development tasked with building the first generation of commercial-scale green-hydrogen production plants and bringing 500 metric tons of capacity online by 2025. Since then, Plug Power has announced the largest green-hydrogen plant in North America in New York, the largest wind power purchase agreement for green-hydrogen to date, the largest green-hydrogen plant on the west coast in California and has started construction on plants in New York and Georgia.
Brenor brings over 30 years of industry and management experience from the renewable energy, materials, equipment, and semiconductor industries. Prior to Plug Power he was Senior Technologist at First Solar, where he initiated and led development of the first utility-scale solar-powered green-hydrogen project in North America.
Brenor joined First Solar as part of the successful acquisition of Enki Technology, a materials startup he founded in 2009 and led as CEO until 2013 and then as CTO until the acquisition in 2016. Enki developed a durable high performance anti-reflection coating that is now ships on all of First Solar’s modules. Prior to founding Enki Technology, he was an EIR at Crosslink Capital, CEO of Nanonexus, a MEMS based semiconductor equipment startup and he spent 14 years at Cypress Semiconductor.
Brenor trained as an Electrical Engineer at the Waterford Institute of Technology in Ireland. He has 24 issued patents covering a range of topics related to materials, semiconductor design, architecture, and manufacturing.
Wednesday, September 21, 2022
11:00 AM – 12:00 PM