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Peter Weigand Receives Top 10 CEO Recognition from Industry Era Magazine

Los Angeles, CA – January 10, 2020 – Industry Era magazine recently named Skipping Stone CEO Peter Weigand to their top ten list of CEOs for 2019.

Industry Era is a global magazine focused on, world-changing ideas, creativity, and the perspective of established leaders. The magazine endeavors to display how companies and individuals are revolutionizing the future and the industry.

Peter Weigand founded Skipping Stone with a view to utilizing energy industry veterans to help energy clients navigate market changes, capitalize on opportunities, and manage business risks. The energy strategy and market consulting firm has worked with hundreds of clients across the energy industry and around the world.

Peter’s vision and innovative ideas have kept him and Skipping Stone at the forefront of the ever-changing energy landscape.

“We see new strategies and business models evolve all the time. Often what we see working in one industry segment in one country can be applied in another country. We really enjoy bringing new ideas to life and collaborating with our clients to achieve success,” says Peter. “Unlike most consultancies, we do a lot more than just deliver a report. In many cases we actively engage in the launch of the ideas we collaborate to create, including sharing in the risks and rewards with our clients.”

Peter goes on to say, “While it’s nice to receive global recognition of my achievements from Industry Era, this is really an honor that is a reflection of the team we have at Skipping Stone.”

About Skipping Stone

Skipping Stone is a consulting and technology services firm that helps natural gas and electricity utilities, market participants and solution providing clients globally to navigate market changes, capitalize on opportunities and manage business risks. From innovation through strategy development, market research and assessment to implementation of business plans and technologies, the firm provides a wide array of services. Skipping Stone’s model of deploying energy industry veterans has delivered measurable bottom-line results for over 270 clients globally. Headquartered in Boston, the firm has offices in Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, Tokyo, Singapore and London. For more information, visit www.SkippingStone.com or www.SkippingStone.co.jp.

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Skipping Stone and New Energy Consulting Announce Strategic Alliance to Promote International Business Expansion

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Boston, Massachusetts – April 23, 2019 – Skipping Stone, a global energy markets consulting and technology services firm, and New Energy Consulting (NEC), a United Kingdom (UK) and European Union (EU) energy consulting firm, today announced a strategic alliance agreement to promote international business expansion services to each other’s clients.

According to both consulting companies, they intend to jointly develop integrated advisory services to help UK and EU companies participate in US and Japan and for US and Japan companies to develop opportunities in the UK and EU. The companies are planning a webinar and presentation to introduce joint services capabilities, target markets and focus areas as well as explaining how the alliance can benefit clients globally.

“We have a number of UK or EU based clients that have expressed interest in expanding their business into either the US or Japan markets,” said NEC Director Rob Eynon. “This alliance enables us to provide a variety of international expansion services utilizing Skipping Stone’s expertise in both of these markets.”

“The NEC team shares a similar business philosophy and energy experienced based service approach like we do,” said Skipping Stone Chairman and CEO Peter Weigand.  “Our joint ability to leverage each other’s services in our respective markets will provide a better and more cohesive experience for those companies with international expansion aspirations.”

“Together we provide world-class research organizations with strategy, innovation and implementation services that help bridge relationship and market access gaps between the UK, EU, Japan and US for the benefit of clients of both firms,” added Mr. Eynon.

 

About New Energy Consulting

New Energy Consulting Limited, founded in2016, is a UK energy market consultancy set up to support their clients with operational and system challenges. Working alongside all the major software providers for challengers in the UK market, we have assisted new market entrants and existing suppliers – helping them get into the market or getting more efficient once active. With a large network of associates, New Energy Consulting supports across the full spectrum of energy retail, from business model design, trading and hedging, systems and partner procurement to support across the full customer lifecycle. For more information, visit newenergyconsulting.co.uk.

 

About Skipping Stone

Skipping Stone is an energy markets consulting firm that helps clients navigate market changes, capitalize on opportunities and manage business risks. Our services include market assessment, strategy development, strategy implementation, managed services, technology selection, technology implementation, project management, and talent management. Our sector focus areas are natural gas and power markets, demand response, technology services, renewable energy, and distributed energy resources. Skipping Stone’s model of deploying energy industry veterans has delivered measurable bottom-line results for over 270 clients globally. Headquartered in Boston, the firm has regional offices in Atlanta, Houston, Los Angeles, Tokyo, and London. For more information, visit SkippingStone.com or www.skippingstone.co.jp.

 

Skipping Stone Contact:
Nancy Young
nyoung@skippingstone.com  
+1 (832) 279-3029

New Energy Consulting Limited Contact
Rob Eynon
rob@newenergyconsulting.co.uk
+44 (0) 7740 199420

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Skipping Stone assists in implementation of Initiate at DistribuTECH

Atlanta, GA – February 15, 2019 – Skipping Stone, a global energy markets consulting and technology services firm, participated in DistribuTECH’s inaugural Initiate program. DistribuTECH – the largest annual event for the transmission and distribution industry – hosted 12 start-ups in New Orleans and gave them each a chance to pitch their companies to a panel of judges.

Serving on the judging panel was Skipping Stone Partner, Ross Malme. Ross, a DistribuTECH Advisory Committee member, was excited to offer this unique opportunity to be heard to the young companies which represent the future of the grid, showcasing technology that utilities can use today to better manage their grids and customers.

“Attendee feedback was extremely positive for Initiate, which gives early stage energy technology entrepreneurs a platform to present their solutions to potential customers, utilities, and investors,” commented Malme. “Skipping Stone congratulates this year’s winners, GridX, Extensible Energy, and Gridmates.”

Other Initiate participants included Anax Power, Brenmiller Energy, Delta Thermal, Go Electric, Logical Buildings, Omega Grid, OnNow Digital, Pathion, and Sabreez.

Andrew Griffis, CEO of Delta Thermal, said that it’s difficult for new companies to get exposure to the right audience and that “we found the Initiate venue at DistribuTECH to be very effective to align our offer with the conversations of the T&D marketplace.”

He added: “The unspoken yet communicated narrative of ‘come see what’s new and helpful in technology’ by virtue of the platform at the conference proved to be quite effective.”

Griffis expressed his appreciation for Initiate judge Ross Malme, who connected him with several strategic companies.

Skipping Stone has been opening the doors of opportunity to companies in the energy industry since 1996. In addition to encouraging entrepreneurship by participating in Initiate, Ross leads Skipping Stone’s engagement as Technical Advisor to the US Trade and Development Agency (USTDA) which is focused on export of US Smart Grid Technologies to the developing world.

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