About Jean

Jean Wilson is highly committed to the renewable energy business, with over 20 years of executive level experience with solar and wind project development. Jean is Senior Vice President Business Development of Pattern Energy Group, and before that served as Senior Vice President for the Utility and Commercial Americas business unit of SunPower Corp. She built SunPower’s large scale solar power plant business in the U.S., Chile and Mexico, developing some of the largest solar photovoltaic power plants in the world.  Prior to joining SunPower, she served as Senior Vice President of renewable energy at PPM Energy (now Iberdrola Renewables), where she led a team of more than 130 professionals in the acquisition and development of over 2,400MW of wind power projects, and grew a wind and solar power project pipeline in excess of 18,000MW. Jean moved to Oregon in 1993 to help open the Northwest office of Kenetech Windpower. She was a member of the Boards of the Renewable Energy Policy Project, and of Oregon BEST. Jean holds a Bachelor of Science in finance from the University of Southern California and a Master of Business Administration from Stanford University. She resides in Northeast Portland with her husband and three daughters.