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David Arfin

CEO at NineDot Energy

New York, New York

Overview

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder and CEO

    2014 - Current

    Ninedot Energy (formerly known as Certain Solar) is a laboratory for clean energy business model innovation. https://www.nine.energy Our name derives from the classic mathematical puzzle for sparking out-of-the-box solutions. NineDot was born in 2014 by a chaos physicist, a finance professor, and a Cleantech entrepreneur. Our hypothesis is that small market-based changes can spur big impacts in clean-tech diffusion. We study behavioral economics to create better customer value propositions, perform predictive analytics to reduce risks and costs, design financial instruments to allocate risk and align incentives, observe how regulations champion or hinder clean energy, and research nonobvious technology/market fits. Ninedot then tests our ideas by launching our own clean energy businesses in the marketplace. We partner with leading clean-tech equipment providers and financial investors to design first-of-their-kind projects. Each project is an experiment to measure real-world benefits to the environment, energy infrastructure, and end users. Throughout our development process, we refine our business models to make them scalable, bankable, and faster to implement. Our first project is a shared, community energy business model in New York City. With Annadale Energy in Staten Island, Ninedot seeks to demonstrate that guaranteed-savings virtual energy subscriptions transform markets and that power-dense clean-tech helps make urban utility grids more resilient and reliable. This business model is being scaled up at additional sites in the New York State. ​

  • Co-Founder

    2015

    Provider of innovative technical financial solutions for PV plants in Europe.

  • Co-Founder

    2013

    SolarVento offers innovative programs to accelerate the adoption of renewable energy in Latin America.

  • Powerhouse Ventures Investor

    2019

    Powerhouse Ventures identifies and supports founding teams building innovative software to rapidly transform our global energy and mobility systems. Powerhouse Ventures believe that addressing the climate crisis requires deploying our most viable market-based solutions today.

  • Advisory Board Member

    2016

    TIGI aims to provide environmentaly-friendly and economically attractive solutions for the tremendous need of heat, where and when it is most needed, including in cold climates and demanding applications such as space heating and industrial process heat. Headquartered in Israel, TIGI invented the Honeycomb Collector that has been shown to top best of breed collectors in high temperature differential scenarios, in a combination of cost and performance parameters. Our Honeycomb Collector enjoys the resilience and low costs usually seen with the much simpler (and lower performing) flat plate collectors. Our collectors have been thoroughly tested and validated by the world's most esteemed research institutions, including Germany's Fraunhofer ISE and Switzerland's SPF. The Collectors are currently operational in multiple projects in Europe and North America. http://www.tigisolar.com

  • Chief Advisor

    2014 - 2019

    Providing strategic guidance to this "can-do" company that provides clean energy solutions to affordable housing providers.

  • Board Member

    2011 - 2019

    WattzOn is a consumer energy engagement software platform that provides free tools and expert advice to help people understand their energy use and how they can make smart decisions about saving energy and making their homes more green.

  • Advisory Board Member

    2015 - 2018

    eMotorWerks is redefining the Electric Vehicle charging market with its revolutionary Smart[Grid] EV Charging Platform, featuring the JuiceBox™. Our JuiceBox charging stations offer best-in-class EV driver experience, and provide valuable load management services to grid operators and utilities. Revenues from these Grid Services create significant value for end-use customers, and a sustainable funding model facilitating rapid rollouts into the residential and workplace markets. Our platform expands the utility of electric vehicles by reducing electricity costs, deferring costly grid capacity upgrades, enabling stable growth in renewable generation, and ultimately making electric grids cleaner and more reliable.

  • Advisory Board Member

    2014 - 2018

    United Wind is a leading wind energy developer that leases small wind systems to residential, commercial and agricultural clients nationwide with its revolutionary WindLease™ product.

  • U.S. Speaker Program

    2017 - 2017

    Met with Palestinian Authority officials responsible for implementing new policies on renewable energy and financing, banking leaders, solar entrepreneurs, and community leaders in Ramallah, Jericho and Jerusalem.

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