Bill Taylor - Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Taylor founded the Company in early 2008 and has served since then as Chief Executive Officer. Prior to that, Mr. Taylor founded PV Powered, Inc., a leading manufacturer of inverters, in 2003, which he led until 2007. Under Mr. Taylor’s leadership, PV Powered became the leading US supplier of inverters, selling over 9,000 inverters into the residential and commercial PV markets (able to handle greater than 27MW of total power). Not only did PV Powered produce 20 unique UL certified inverters, but it also provided system designs and installer training that allowed its products to be successfully deployed across the country. The most significant PV Powered project is also the largest residential PV deployment in history. Located at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, the PV Powered team designed a completely scalable PV system that was installed at 1,400 locations of 5kW each ‒ 7MW total.In the 1990’s, at Kenetech Wind Power, Mr. Taylor produced the world’s first variable-speed three-phase inverter used to capture 450 kW wind turbines that he also helped develop. This same package of turbines and inverters then went around the world in an unprecedented wave. During the late 1990’s, Mr. Taylor went on to design the largest wind turbines in the world for Clipper Windpower, capable of producing up to 2.5MW, 5MW, or 7MW of clean power. Moreover, his team not only built the turbines, but also conceived and optimized the large wind farms that must support this kind of massive power generation. Bill earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from Florida International University, completed coursework towards a Masters in Electrical Engineering from San Jose State and completed an MBA from University of Phoenix.
