USA to the innovative , US renewable energy division of one of Europe ’ s biggest utilities .
Lallum began his career at the company in 2005 , when it was still known as PPM Energy and had yet to crack the 1000MW of renewable energy milestone . When Iberdrola — Spain ’ s largest energy group and a global leader in wind energy — purchased PPM ’ s parent company , ScottishPower , in 2007 , Lallum was tasked with building a project management organization for the new entity . And a major growth period ensued . Today , the company owns approximately 6000MW of wind and solar generation and has been rebranded as Avangrid Renewables , a non-regulated entity of the publicly traded Avangrid ( AGR ).
“ We had multifunctional energy development capability on the West Coast in Portland , Oregon ,” Lallum says . “ I was part of that in the project management group so when Iberdrola purchased us , they asked me to move to the East
Coast to duplicate the model that we had developed under PPM Energy . So I moved out to the East Coast , began hiring project managers and engineers and built a very capable project organization .”
At first , the newly created Iberdrola Renewables proceeded with two parallel teams working on either side of the USA . As the organization matured through its peak growth period , however ,
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