Thomas H. Stoner Jr.

Stoner received his Masters in accounting and finance from the London School of Economics and a BA from Hampshire College, Amherst, Massachusetts. In 1988 he married Laurie Larsen; together they have two children.

In 1987, Stoner served as founding Director of the Social Venture Network

Most recently, Thomas Stoner Jr. launched Entelligent, a provider of Smart Climate indices, predictive equity portfolio analytics, and advanced data.

Stoner served as the Managing Partner at New Alchemy Energy Partners, a fund dedicated to developing distributed energy generation projects in North America.

From 2008 to 2010, Stoner served as the CEO and Chairman of Evergreen Energy Inc. (NYSE:EEE), a publicly traded coal and clean coal technology company with headquarters in Denver, Colorado.

From 1998 to October 2008, Stoner served as CEO of Econergy International, a carbon markets consultancy and owner/operator of renewable energy projects throughout the Americas. Econergy International floated on the AIM under the London Stock Exchange (ECG) in February 2006.[1] Econergy was an independent power developer of renewable energy projects, including wind farms, small hydro, and methane fired power generation facilities throughout Americas as well as one of the leading carbon emissions traders under the Kyoto Protocol.[2] Under Stoner's leadership Econergy developed the first methodology submitted to the governing body of the clean development mechanism (CDM), the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Stoner led the sale of Econergy to GDF Suez, one of the largest utilities in the world.[3] While at Econergy, Stoner helped five international development banks to develop the CleanTechFund,[4] a $25 million private equity fund focused on small-scale energy generation (such as wind, hydro, biomass and geothermal power plants) and energy efficiency projects in Latin America. He served as the Senior Manager of the fund from its formation in 2004 to 2008.

Prior to Econergy, Stoner founded and served as president of the Highland Energy Group, a national energy service company (ESCO) providing demand side management (DSM) services to public utilities, such as the Public Service Company of Colorado, Duke Power, and Texas Utilities. Stoner led the sale of the company to Eastern Utilities,[5] formerly a NYSE traded public utility headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.

Prior to Econergy, Stoner was the first acting director and founding board member of the Social Venture Network, a nonprofit membership organization composed of socially responsible business leaders who are committed to creating a more just and sustainable world.

Stoner has served as a technical advisor in more than a dozen countries.

Project Butterfly was founded in 2010 and is a collaboration among scientists, business leaders, and the global community to address the threats posed by climate change, and researching opportunities that exist in mitigating it. The initiative, started by Stoner, brought together individuals from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), NASA, the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the University of Colorado at Boulder. The research and climate modeling performed under Project Butterfly led to the book "Small Change, Big Gains: Reflections of an Energy Entrepreneur”.

• What Climate Change Means for Investors[6]
• Donald Trump is about to become an even bigger champion of coal and fracking[7]
• Investors must adjust their portfolios now for a changing climate[8]
• Why Big Oil might secretly wish for a carbon tax[9]
• Opinion: Exxon Mobil cover-up case shows why energy investors need a new strategy[10]
• Paris: Subsidies, taxes and the energy investor[11]
• China Still Needs to Focus on Renewable Energy Despite Economic Slowdown[12]
• The problem with Obama's clean-energy plan[13]
• Panelist at Livingston Securities Advanced Energy Conference Denver, CO
• Panelist at 2015 Burridge Conference, Burridge Center for Finance at University of Colorado Boulder, CO
• Instructor at Viridis Graduate Institute Ecopsychology and Environmental Humanities course: Economics, Humans & Environment
• Invited member for "Committee on Determinants of Market Adoption of Advanced Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy Technologies" at the National Academy of Sciences
• Small Change Big Gains: Reflections of an Energy Entrepreneur, 2013. ISBN 1626340021 556p.
• A Financial Model for Evaluating Projects with Performance Contracts Report to the Energy Efficiency Financial Task Force[14]
• The Most Important Climate Change Question: How Will Investors React?[15]
• Smart Grid: On a Path Toward Climate Stability?[16]
• Divestment and Climate Change: Thomas Stoner at TEDxHampshire[17]
• Carbon Taxes Shifts us From Polluting to Non-Polluting[18]

• Renewable energy commercialization
• Renewable energy policy
• Renewable energy industry
• Energy security and renewable technology
• Anti-nuclear movement in the United States
• Clean Coal
• Cleantech
• Renewable Energy
• Social Venture Network
• Kyoto Protocol
• Clean Development Mechanism

• London Stock Exchange – AIM
• September, 2008 Econergy Intl. Plc Interim Results
• Econergy International PLC Proyecto Eolico Guanacaste (PEG) Project Signs Turbine Supply Agreement
• GDF Suez