JOHN FLORY -  Executive Managing Director

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​John Flory is Executive Managing Director for Alliance.  Most of his over four decades of experience has been in initiating businesses and business practices that enabled businesses and energy market systems to be more capital efficient, resilient and sustainable.  

​Mr. Flory has been part of the start-up of over a half dozen businesses.    Some noteworthy examples include:
    •  The California Independent System Operator and the California Power Exchange – to facilitate efficient and reliable
        wholesale power markets,
​    •  North American Energy Credit and Clearing, which was later purchased by NASDAQ OMX, a clearinghouse type entity to
​       facilitate physical and financial market reliability and capital efficiency, 
•  Demand Reserve Partnership of the California Power Authority, which was the nation’s first major Demand Response (DR) project integrated with power grid operations that delivered nearly 500 MW of DR capacity from a group of DR suppliers or aggregators;  DR is seen as a major complement to the intermittency of renewable energy in achieving a cleaner and more resilient energy system.  
​•  eSmart Systems US which, as Microsoft’s leading Global Artificial Intelligence (AI)Partner of the Year in Energy,  harnessed AI for the inspection of energy assets to enhance operational reliability and efficient asset management and also used AI for the optimal dispatch of Distributed Energy Resources (including Electric Vehicles, batteries and solar) to lower costs, enhance reliability/resilience and reduce carbon footprint.
Other indicative experience includes:
  • Supporting global multi-commodity merchant companies in capital-efficient trading and risk management practices that achieved regulatory compliance;
  • Developing the first state Clean Energy Resource Investment Plan;
  • Presentations before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission and the Committee of Chief Risk Officers on enhanced risk management practices that were also capital efficient;
  • Assisting competitive energy retailers in developing and executing business strategies that leveraged emerging smart-home technologies (e.g., smart thermostats) to facilitate both revenue growth and business resilience through innovative mechanisms to managing volumetric and market risk while attracting/retaining customers;
  • Supporting energy companies in reducing operational risk, including the management of cyber-risk in increasingly distributed operations;
  • Working with a  multi-national collaborative of power grid operators and the MIT “Utility of the Future”  lead to develop transaction structures, including real-time pricing,  that facilitated the synchronization of the wholesale and retail markets to enhance system efficiency and reliability at both the transmission grid with large power plants and at the distribution grid with distributed energy resources;
  • Supporting water utilities in the development of integrated resource plans that included water efficiency as well as water supply;
  • Implementing utility demand management projects that combined smart phone apps and demand control systems for residential customers on demand rates to both enhance customer satisfaction/loyalty and reduce peak demand.
  • Conducting market research and end-use forecasting in residential, commercial, agricultural/water, and industrial segments to reflect energy efficiency and air emissions impacts.