Provide engineering support to technical matters throughout the development process with a focus on battery energy storage system technology, modeling. construction, and interconnection for projects nation-wide.
Responsible for capital cost estimating, operational cost estimating, contract structuring, permitting, use-case analysis and financial optimization of battery energy storage systems.
Utilize experience and knowledge of renewable energy facilities, utility interconnection requirements, control schemes, and energy contracting to evaluate, identify, and mitigate commercial risks associated with proposed project designs.
Work collaboratively with key internal stakeholders, including Project Management and Construction (PMC), Supply Chain, IT, and Health & Safety, among others. As well as third-party consultants.
Mr. Orr worked efficiently and effectively with me to condense a challenging permitting process - one that must be iterative - and incorporate regulatory costs into design decisions.
Our mutual client was able to compare the two best repowering options for this cogeneration plant because of his support in the permitting process.
Similar projects have foundered when regulatory constraints are addressed reactively or late in the design process.
I strontly recommend Mr. Orr for his capability to integrate the details into a comprehensive strategy.
Spence Hammond, PE
Spencer Hammond, PE, CAPP, MSDT
Ophir is a true team player whose strong technical skills were obvious in his project engineering oversight work at BrightSource. Further, he brought valuable savvy to BrightSource's development team, in his very effective work on a range of other matters, from setting up and managing meteorological data to handling project electrical and gas interconnections.
Mark Zahn
Ophir is very pleasant and engaging to work with. He works hard to understand problems and is not afraid to make corrections. He has an interesting and varied experiance as an engineer in particular and in life generally. I would recomend him for any task or responsibility.
Eugene Porter
I worked with Ophir for nearly 4 years, and can attest to his creativity in approach to problems and his technical expertise and diligence in completing them. Ophir is detail oriented and will take the extra steps to thoroughly understand a problem so that his solution is the correct and best fit for the project.