Kimber was first drawn to renewables in the late 1990s, when a family member worked for PowerLight, a pioneering solar developer. Then in his early 20s, Kimber was working as a strategy consultant.

“I knew I wanted to get into renewables, but I wanted to learn conventional [power] first,” he tells Recharge. “I knew that if renewables was ever going to make a dent — and I thought it was a pretty good bet that that would happen during my lifetime — that it was going to need to become part of the conventional energy mix.”

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