Kourtney Nelson Email and Phone Number

Renewable Energy

Working with the experienced TransAlta team, I am leading the company's expansion to serve North American C&I clients who are seeking to meet their sustainability, GHG reduction and renewable energy goals through long-term power purchase agreements. With over 100 years of asset ownership and asset operation experience and 1.3 GW of wind online across Canada, I'm excited to leverage our expertise to partner with our customers and make a real impact in combating climate change.

Located in the Grand Central Bowl building in the Central Eastside District, we have 50 taps of craft beer, cider, kombucha & CBD soda. We feature local, national and international craft brews by the pint & taster tray to enjoy with us on-site or take a 32oz crowler (can + growler) or growler on the go. With knowledgeable and friendly staff and a well-curated tap list, let us share our passion for craft beer and cider with you.

As the head of 3Degrees' Transaction Center of Excellence in the Energy & Climate Practice, I specialize in advising businesses on how to meet their climate change goals by buying renewable energy. Our C&I clients look to us to help them navigate the procurement and negotiation of long-term PPAs in a risk-mitigated and cost-conscious manner. I leverage my renewable energy origination background to provide best-in-class support and advice.Recent Achievement: Leading San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) team through competitive solicitation and negotiations of tandem PPAs (45 MW solar + 62 MW wind).

Executed near-term bundled energy & REC sales for merchant wind assets in WECC and actively managed merchant REC portfolio through effective hedges throughout US• California RPS expert with strong track record of deal execution of customized Product Content Category 1 and 2 transactions • Key Transaction: 10-year Roseville Electric Flexible Product Content Category 1, 2 and 3 products• REC Book Manager of large, actively managed REC book of Iberdrola's merchant assets • Portfolio over 4M MWh with annual gross revenue over $15M• Created strategic partnerships with emerging C&I customers, executed short-term bundled and REC-only transactions which led to high-value, long-term transactions

Negotiated and executed long-term power purchase agreements for Iberdrola’s renewable asset portfolio in the WECC, with an emphasis on California IOUs and POUs customers• Key Transaction Experience: • Klondike 3A Wind Project (Oregon) PPA with PG&E • Manzana Wind Project (California) asset sale with PG&E and PPA with City of Santa Clara

Managed portfolio of six wind assets during their full life-cycle, protecting and enhancing project value and ensuring company compliance.

Supported marketing efforts of the Renewable Origination Group through management of company RFP responses.

Provided short-term fundamental market analysis to Energy Management and Trading Group.

Supplied timely and accurate market information to the Energy Management and Trading Group.

Supported wholesale power trading team by providing fundamental analysis support for short-term wholesale power market drivers.

Supported wholesale power trading team by providing fundamental analysis support for short-term wholesale power market drivers.

Supported wholesale power trading team by preparing daily estimate of charges based on trading activity.