About Us
WHETSTONE POWER
Providing Expertise, Project Development and Capital to help deploy more renewable energy projects. Whetstone Power brings years of experience and leadership in the energy sector to drive success in all facets of sustainable energy project development from concept through commercial operation. We particularly thrive in solving the complex to bring unique solutions to successfully reach financial close and achieve our primary objective, more sustainable and economic power for North America.
Advisory
Helping municipals, utilities and others, structure and deploy renewable energy projects efficiently and effectively to best meet long term goals.
Project Development
Development of sustainable energy projects from concept to final commercial operation
Project Financing
Aligning projects to best funding source to include equity, debt and tax equity financing at scale
Project Operations
Site management and operations services to ensure the results promised are achieved
MEET OUR TEAM
COLLIN FRANCESCHI
Managing Partner and Founder
Collin has over 20 years of experience in commercial roles in the energy and power generation industry. This includes co-founding of Blackstone portfolio company ClearGen and leadership roles in the successful startup two utility scale renewable energy development firms. In addition, Collin has held leadership positions with Cogentrix and Duke Energy developing and managing utility scale and distributed generation across North America totaling over 3,000 MWs of power generating assets resulting in over $2B in capital transactions in the sector.
Collin has a BS in Engineering from North Carolina State University, Master in Business Administration from Clemson University and post MBA Executive Education from Wake Forest University.
NICK SAGER
Asset Management
AARON MITCHELL
Operations Manager