• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
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  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Jacob Susman

Ambient Fuels

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Jacob Susman is a clean economy business builder, investor, and thought leader who has been developing and originating renewable energy projects for over 20 years.

Jacob has decades of experience as a finance professional and project developer with a global power sector network. He is a successful clean energy founder-CEO, having built and led OwnEnergy, a wind energy mid-market leader, from inception to exit. He has also been instrumental in renewable energy investments and projects as an investor at Goldman Sachs and an executive at EDF Renewables.

With Jigar Shah, Jacob co-founded Cleantech Leaders Roundtable (CTLR), a private community of business leaders working to combat climate change and build a thriving clean economy. He currently serves as CTLR’s Board President. Jacob is also a board member of REpowering Schools. He previously served on the boards of American Clean Power’s predecessor, AWEA, as well as the American Council on Renewable Energy. He was a founding board member of Clean Energy Buyers’ Alliance’s predecessor, REBA.  

In 2010, Jacob was named to Crain's New York “40 Under 40,” and in 2012, he was an E&Y Entrepreneur of The Year Finalist. In 2013, Greentech Media named Jacob one of New York’s Top 10 Cleantech Leaders.

Sessions With Jacob Susman

Tuesday, 19 March

  • 12:00pm - 12:30pm (CST) / 19/mar/2024 05:00 pm - 19/mar/2024 05:30 pm

    Ambient Fuels | Navigating 45V Guidance for Green Hydrogen

    Hourly matching of green hydrogen against renewable energy purchases, starting in 2028 under the U.S. Treasury’s draft guidelines for Section 45V of the U.S. Inflation Reduction Act, might make converting current gray hydrogen users—especially, petroleum refiners—out of reach. Unless early projects are grandfathered for annual matching, other sectors such as manufacturing, eFuels and utility deployment will likely lead the way in near-term adoption of green hydrogen. 

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