PureGen Power names Voelz, Domencich and Curry to management posts

PureGen Power, a Deer Park-based solar power asset development company, has named Velvet Voelz as director of asset management, Jim Domencich as director of finance and Trevor Curry as director of engineering.

They join David Brochu, CEO; Bob Leah, COO; and Mitch Randall, CAO & general counsel, on the leadership team.

Voelz brings extensive renewable energy experience to her new position, where she will be responsible for asset management functions including P&L accountability, budgeting, contractual and regulatory compliance, performance improvements, and risk and project management. In her previous role at Recurrent Energy, she oversaw asset management for approximately 775 MW of utility-scale solar projects. She has also worked for GCL Solar, Pacific Gas & Electric Company and Fotowatio Renewable Ventures. She earned an MBA and MS in Environmental Management from the University of San Francisco, and a bachelor's degree from the University of Hawaii.

Domencich has five years of experience in renewable energy project finance, including sales and financings of over 1 GW of utility-scale PV projects. He will be leading corporate and project finance functions including FP&A, acquisition and term financings, and portfolio sales. Before joining PureGen Power, he was a senior manager, project finance at Recurrent Energy and worked at Viseon Energy prior to that. He earned an MS in Operations Research from Florida Institute of Technology, an MBA from University of Notre Dame and a BA from Ripon College.

Curry has more than a decade of experience optimizing design and providing strategy using economics-based engineering approaches to over 5 GW of clean power plants. In his role, he will be responsible for engineering functions including power plant design improvement strategy and implementation, hardware and technology validation, and interconnection and offtake contract compliance. He previously served as Director, Engineering at Recurrent Energy and has also worked at Black & Veatch, Sargent & Lundy and American Electric Power. He holds an Executive MBA from Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, a BS in electrical engineering from The Ohio State University, and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Illinois and California.