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Steve Bravo
Meet Steve, one of our founding members of Project Vanguard.
Work Experience
Key Messages & Subject Expertise
Energy Program Implementation at Scale
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Deep experience translating legislation and policy mandates into deployable programs, incentives, and market signals.
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Can speak to why good policy fails or succeeds in execution—a rare and valuable angle.
Grid Reliability, Load Growth, and System Constraints
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Strong command of how electrification, data centers, transportation, and building loads stress existing infrastructure.
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Able to discuss reliability tradeoffs without resorting to ideological framing.
State–Federal–Private Sector Coordination
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Experience navigating the friction between federal ambition, state authority, and private sector execution.
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Particularly strong on lessons learned from New York’s complexity.
Veteran Workforce Development
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Grounded understanding of how clean energy job pipelines are built—not aspirationally, but operationally.
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Speaks fluently about skills gaps, training timelines, and employer needs.
All-of-the-Above Energy Strategy
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How different energy resources complement each other across seasons and demand profiles
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What states can do to align planning, permitting, and incentives to support diversity rather than favoritism
Energy Security is National Security
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How grid resilience underpins economic and national security
- Why domestic energy production, diversified supply, and redundancy are core security assets
Media Samples
LinkedIn Article
My Layoff Lessons Learned. With a number of government and private companies announcing layoffs over the past few days, I thought it might be helpful to publish the lessons I learned from the time I was "impacted."
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Director of Product and Commercialization
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA)
Biography
Steve Bravo graduated from the Naval Academy in 2003 and spent 10 years active duty in the Navy as a helicopter pilot, deploying to the Persian Gulf three times. He joined the clean energy industry in 2013 through General Electric's Junior Officer Leadership Program (JOLP). He spent nine years at GE as part of their Onshore wind and battery energy storage businesses, all in product development roles.
In 2021, he joined battery storage integrator Fluence where he helped stand up their product development team after their IPO. In late 2024 he joined New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA) as their Director of Commercialization focusing on supporting clean energy startups for the NY market.
Currently based in Albany, New York
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