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Richard Stuebi

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Richard Stuebi is founder and President of Future Energy Advisors (FEA), a management consulting practice providing advisory services to corporate clients pursuing innovative growth strategies related to energy. In a 30+ year career, he has pursued commercial opportunities in new energy technologies and innovative business models as an entrepreneur, investor, consultant, advocate, and executive. Richard has served as VP of US Strategy and Group Technology at National Grid, where he led strategy development for US operations and evaluated technology and businesses model innovations for the firm’s US and UK operations. He has extensive experience supporting regional cleantech ecosystems and entrepreneurial startups developing new energy technologies.

Richard earned a MA in Economics at Stanford University and a B.S. in Economics from MIT.  He is a Senior Fellow at the Institute for Sustainable Energy at Boston University. His current professional interests involve the accelerated adoption of renewable energy, energy storage, and microgrids to facilitate adoption of  high-resilience zero-carbon electricity supply. His research focuses on consumer behavior related to the adoption of lower-emitting energy-related products and services. He is also interested in marketing issues as they intersect with environmental sustainability.