Jane Hotchkiss
Co-Founder/President
Jane Hotchkiss has spent 30 years working on climate solutions in energy, beginning in the late 80’s in CA working with former regulatory staff and with CEOs focused on building markets for the renewable industry. She became known for green energy in MA and CO, as the first renewables advocate at both the Conservation Law Foundation and the Land and Water Fund of the Rockies. In addition to her pro-renewable advocacy, policy, and regulatory work, Jane worked to highlight the fossil problem, developing a national field of anti-coal campaigns, as co-founder of the Clean Air Task Force (CATF). As a climate consultant to PG&E on the Madison Wind Project and their national energy team, she was the only external consultant to the first utility wind project in the East.
In the mid 2000s, Jane served as Managing Director of the solar company CEI, where she combined market incentives with a growing green municipal electric interest to secure JPMorgan financing and site control for a 30 MW project, only to face the municipal utilities’ preference for short term natural gas in 2012. Looking for a solution supportive of expanding renewable and climate energy solution markets brought Jane to the promise of fusion energy. The need for fusion’s potential steady state, safe, zero carbon energy supply had never been clearer. Its ability to balance renewable grids and disrupt fossil’s hold on electricity, meet industrial needs, and even produce transportation fuels is compelling. Fusion was the natural place to utilize her energy market experience and climate knowledge. With ECG she now dedicates her expertise to building a roadmap for fusion as a regulated, accepted, and welcomed green commercial choice.
As a citizen, Jane served two terms as an elected member of the Concord Select Board in Concord, MA, completing her civic duties in June 2021.
“Climate change requires us to be ready to meet production-ready fusion with a regulatory green light backed by multifaceted leading voices of support. We don’t have the 25 years it took for wide-spread acceptance and growth of our existing green energy base. Let’s put experience to good use disrupting climate predictions. Fusion for humanity’s common good.”
Jane Hotchkiss
Co-Founder/President, ECG