John has experience performing technical due diligence and risk assessment across a variety of technologies, financial and corporate structuring and capitalization, project and venture capital financing, and many financial and economic analytical techniques related to investment analysis.

In addition to wind technologies, John provides experience in evaluating and managing investments in hydroelectric, solar, natural gas, wood, landfill gas, and other power generation and energy efficiency technologies.

John is also an active member of the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). Since the mid-1990’s, John has made many presentations and contributed several papers to the annual AWEA WINDPOWER Conferences and also to the Northeast Sustainable Energy RENEW Conferences. At WINDPOWER ’97, AWEA presented Mr. Zimmerman with a Special Recognition Award for the “critical role he played in bringing wind energy development to the Northeast.”

John holds an Environmental Administration degree from Johnson State College and a Master in Business Administration degree from the University of Vermont.