Hear How Green Banking Catalyzes Clean Energy Investment
from Bert Hunter,
Executive Vice President and Chief Investment Officer of the Connecticut Green Bank
Mayor's Conference Room, Anchorage City Hall
Wednesday, March 29, 2017 at 10:00 am
A Green Bank is an entity that accelerates the deployment of clean energy (energy efficiency and renewable energy) by using limited public dollars to attract private capital investment in clean energy projects. In doing so, it makes clean energy more affordable and accessible to consumers. Since it was established in 2011 as the nation's first Green Bank, the Connecticut Green Bank has accelerated the growth of clean energy in the state through innovation, education and activation. In its first five years it partnered with private-sector investors to create over $1 billion in low-cost, long-term, sustainable financing to implement clean energy measures in the residential, commercial, industrial, institutional and infrastructure sectors.
As Chief Investment Officer of the Connecticut Green Bank, Bert Hunter leads the finance team’s development of new and innovative financing programs that attract more private capital to scale-up the state’s clean energy investments, including energy efficiency, renewables and alternative fuel vehicles and associated infrastructure.
Bert was Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer of Spectrum Capital, Ltd, an investment bank focused on commercial aircraft finance and investment in U.S. electric power generation. He was accountable for all financial control and served as the company’s senior risk officer, overseeing all extensions of credit and investment of the firm’s capital. Prior to Spectrum, Bert was the treasurer of the international leasing company of Chemical Bank, where he managed the funding for a billion-dollar portfolio of aircraft and equipment loans and leases outside the United States.
Bert is an alumnus, a former Trustee and former member of the Board of Visitors of Wake Forest University (BS) and received his MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.
Bert will give a short presentation on how Green Banking is working in Connecticut and across the world, and then answer questions.