Jim Walker, P.E.

Founder & Principal, Cleantech Adoption LLC

Jim Walker founded Cleantech Adoption LLC to help client companies — investment bankers, entrepreneurs, and corporate energy managers — transition to clean electricity.

His energy industry experience spans more than 45 years. Jim built Ameresco's Northeast Solar PV business, which constructed solar PV systems for municipalities, hospitals, corporations, utilities, and state agencies. The PV systems were built on municipal landfills, parking lots and garages, airport terminals, school roofs, and large fields for utility-scale projects.

Jim also created an energy supply business to cut natural gas costs for manufacturers. The effort helped industrial plants in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts remain competitive, saving rural towns from plant closures.

Early in Jim’s career, he conducted energy efficiency audits of manufacturing and commercial buildings.

Jim’s first job as a young engineer was to develop a new residential heat pump for Carrier Air Conditioning Corp, earning a patent on the new design.

Jim was a research analyst for Forrester Research, Global Insight, and Cambridge Energy Research Associates.

For Sun Microsystems' electric utility sales team, Jim framed technology solutions for CIOs and CEOs of electric utilities — helping the account executives sell solutions rather than commodities.

As a volunteer, Jim created and co-founded the MIT Ignite Clean Energy Business Plan Competition for the MIT Enterprise Forum. He served on the Board of Directors of the MIT Enterprise Forum for six years.

Jim is a member of the Board of Managers for Flagship Wharf Condominium Association.

Jim holds an MBA from the M.I.T. Sloan School and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is a registered professional engineer in Massachusetts.

Jim’s career history is on LinkedIn.