Dan has pioneered conservation and renewable energy technologies, particularly wind power, in the Midwest for over 30 years. During his tenure in the wind industry, Dan's activities have covered every aspect of the technology including R&D, design, manufacturing, development, installation, and O&M. He has also been instrumental in helping to form public policy by working with legislators and regulators on the workings and benefits of utilizing renewables in the energy mix, and is considered to be one of the nations leading experts on wind technology and community owned renewable distributive generation. Dan has developed 1,500 MW of wind generation in his 30 years of experience in the field. He has been a consultant to Edison Capital, Johnson Controls, John Deere Capital, Nordex Turbines, Suzlon Turbine Manufacturing, Nebraska Power and Excel Energy. He has appeared before numerous state and federal governmental bodies advocating wind power and community-based energy development on behalf of landowners, farmers, and ranchers. Dan also wrote the popular wind energy reference guidebook Harvesting Wind Energy As A Cash Crop.
Mr. Mitola has over 20 years experience in energy and environmental industries. He was the CEO of Electric City Corp from 2000-2006 leading the company from its start up phase for six years as a publicly traded company. While trading on the American Stock Exchange the firm was selected one of the fastest growing small companies in the U.S. Prior to Electric City, Mr. Mitola was a Vice President and General Manager of Exelon Thermal Technologies and led the creation of Commonwealth Edison's (now Exelon) first unregulated subsidiary. Mr. Mitola has also been a managing partner of Kingsdale Capital, a private equity and capital advisory firm and has been appointed twice by the Governor of Illinois as the Chairman of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority. Mr. Mitola received his BS in Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana and Juris Doctor from DePaul University, College of Law.
Mr. Paulson is a former regulatory attorney and Senior Attorney for Northern States Power Company. He has extensive knowledge and experience with the regulatory environment that is critical in securing favorable power purchasing contracts and interconnection agreements. He has been point counsel for all of Juhl Energy's community based projects guiding LLC formation, land use documentation, and power purchasing agreements. He was the former top aid to US House Speaker, the Honorable Dennis Hastert.
Mr. Bendel was introduced to wind turbine construction by Dan Juhl and has collaborated with Dan in over 150 MW of wind turbine construction. Jeff oversees the Company's day-to-day construction activities on wind projects.
Corey got his start in the renewable energy world in 2003 when he helped construct the 18MW wind farm know as DanMar I. Since then he has been involved in several aspects of wind power development including: analyzing wind speed data, formatting turbine layouts, and drafting renewable energy Requests for Proposals. Today, Corey serves as the chief information technology officer and Vice President of Project Development for Juhl Wind.
Tyler started in the renewable energy business in 1994 putting up wind monitoring stations and building back-up and off-grid power systems with his father (Dan Juhl). Tyler started his commercial wind career in 2000 working on foundation, tower erection crews and performing maintenance on his family's wind farm. He now works as a project manager and as VP of Project Development.
