Troy Helming Email & Phone Number

San Francisco, Ca, Us

Richmond, Ca, Us

EarthGrid, a public benefit corporation, is developing a network of tunnels to move clean renewable energy on underground power lines, connect underserved communities with Broadband, and offer clean water, ultra-fast transportation, and E-commerce parcel movement...all underground at a fraction of the cost of conventional tunneling & boring techniques, thanks to our patented plasma tunnel boring robot. Welcome to Infrastructure 2.0.

I've been in solar for 40 years, and for ~25 years as a career. Clients include: Aypa Power (a Blackstone portfolios company), McKinsey, Goldman Sachs, Citigroup, Hartford, Bank of America, Merrill Lynch, Bain, Oaktree, many more.In 1980, my family's dream home was completed in the Midwest (Kansas City area) & one of my chores was to maintain our solar system...well, just the one on our house - not THE solar system :)So I've been in solar/clean energy a long time, and 2 of the companies I've created (Tradewind Energy, formerly KS Wind Power & Pristine Sun) have built, directly or indirectly with partners, > $10 Billion of clean energy infrastructure assets. I wrote the book The Clean Power Revolution (published 2005), created The Freedom Plan (a method to power North America w 100% clean energy & stimulate the US economy by over $1 Trillion per year, including new transmission line networks, as updated occasionally in my various White Papers (available upon request as part of an engagement)), and I am the inventor of 2 cleantech patents (with several more currently in development):1. Floatorack Corp - USPTO App# 15/796689 & 20180119994 for a floating, waterborne solar mounting system. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2018/0119994.html Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYYRbIBk-54&feature=emb_logo2. Red Gopher Cooperative PBC - USPTO App# 15/814311 & 20190085688 for a tunnel-boring robot that uses plasma to bore up to 200x faster & 95% cheaper than conventional tech. http://www.freepatentsonline.com/y2019/0085688.html

Richmond, California, Us

Chairman and Interim president for a while. Guided the team to close a large Pre-Seed funding round and tripled the valuation of the company, made substantial contributions to help the company earn a respectable profit (despite Covid, and it's a Gym!) in 2020 & 2021.

Richmond, California, Us

Richmond, California, Us

$250 Million of project equity investment raised in 2022. Company/portfolio value ~ $750 Million of projects built when I sold a portion of the company in 2017. Co-founder, CEO. Leading developer of small utility-scale and community solar power plants (ground-mounted, not rooftop). The company assets were sold primarily to two separate buyers in 2017: Industry Capital & New Island Capital, with additional solar farm assets sold to Renesola, Sky Solar, Enerparc & DGEP.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I was an early employee at Arcbyt (the name before it became Petra). Petra is no longer in business as of 2024. EarthGrid acquired used equipment, and the remaining shared patents in 2024, from Petra.

I designed, built and operated a biodiesel refinery with 10 million gallon per year capacity. Feedstocks used were primarily used cooking oil (yellow grease), inedible chicken fat, beef tallow, and brown grease.

Renewable energy products sales & distribution: solar systems, wind energy systems, energy saving / efficiency products for small businesses & homeowners.

Lenexa, Kansas, Us

Original Founder of this Unicorn company. TradeWind became the #1 Wind Developer in the USA in 2017 (#3 in 2018) w > $30 Billion asset creation.I led the team that acquired 100s of site leases across the Midwest, obtained LOIs with utilities for low-cost wind power, negotiated key strategic alliances & laid the foundation with early-stage development of the key sites that many years later were built into utility-scale wind farms.Examples: the 250 MW ($500M) Smoky Hills Wind Farm and the 200 MW ($350M) Caney River Wind Farm + other sites. Raised $5M+ in seed angel investor capital before selling most of the company in 2003-2004.We developed some of the first complex pro forma financial models for financing $150 MM + wind power projects in the US. I hired Rob Freeman, TradeWind’s CEO, as well as Geoff Coventry & Matt Gilhousen as the 1st three employees of my company.Kansas Wind Power was originally formed in 1996 as a sole proprietorship, then formed as a company in 2001, then later, was renamed TradeWind Energy (TWE) in 2005 when my successors formed a strategic partnership with an Italian Energy company, Enel. In 2019, TradeWind Energy was sold to Enel Green Power (EGP), which made EGP the largest wind and solar development in the world (as of Dec 2019, per their website).E.g. https://www.bizjournals.com/kansascity/stories/2003/03/17/daily50.html

Telecom distributor: fiber optics bandwidth & related services (for Qwest Communications, etc.), hardware & cellular service distributor for Nextel wireless (#1 in the MO/KAN region and Kansas City area by sales of hardware and account activations), Lucent Technologies/ AT&T / Avaya system distributor of PBX, key systems, automated attendant solutions and related hardware & software. Sold the entire communications network to Rockhurst College, including fiber/cable runs underground tying campus buildings together for voice & data communications.

Dallas, Tx, Us

Made Achiever's Club 2 years' consecutive, one of top sales reps in company nationwide, 1st ever winner from MO/KAN branch of National Sales Training "Class Excellence" award.

Bachelor Of Science, Business Administration And Management, General

Education record