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ROI Influencers: Power List 2025 — Energy & Environment

They are the sectors that are taken for granted the most – until there is a crisis. Climate change is real. It impacts all aspects of the business community.

This list is a look at the best of the best when it comes with providing energy and caring for the environment.

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ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Paulina Banasiak O’Connor

Paulina Banasiak O’Connor Executive director N.J. Offshore Wind Association Leader of industry-funded group in a sector that is under fire after bold statements and executive orders from President Trump.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Ray Cantor

Ray Cantor Vice president, government affairs N.J. Business & Industry Association One of the top thought leaders on all things energy, he and the NJBIA often are out in front on issues that discuss how energy policy will impact business community.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Robert Carvalho

Robert Carvalho President EAI Inc. EAI, an environmental management firm, is national leader in the installation of gas vapor barriers, sub-slab venting systems and monitoring systems for redevelopments on landfills and brownfield sites.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Amy Cradic

Amy Cradic Chief operating officer N.J. Resources She is responsible for providing leadership, management and vision to NJR Clean Energy Ventures, NJR Energy Services and NJR Midstream.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Eric DeGesero

Eric DeGesero Executive vice president Fuel Merchants of New Jersey Factual and funny: You don’t want to be on the other side of a debate with him — especially when it is about electrification mandates.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Christine Guhl-Sadovy

Christine Guhl-Sadovy President N.J. Board of Public Utilities Energy policy in the state will be among the most important decisions of the incoming governor.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Susan Hardwick

Susan Hardwick CEO American Water She not only heads the largest publicly traded water and wastewater utility in the country, but she does it the right way: She annually is among a list of most admired CEOs.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Dennis Hart

Dennis Hart Executive director Chemistry Council of N.J. Highly respected thought leader and longtime director of various organizations involved in the environment, energy, transportation and logistics — and how they all work together.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Rich Henning

Rich Henning CEO N.J. Utilities Association He is responsible for setting public policy and strategic planning for one of the most important and impactful industries in New Jersey.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Doug Hritz

Doug Hritz Senior vice president River Crossing Strategy Group He serves as chair of River Crossing’s Renewable Energy Practice Group and co-chair of the firm’s Legislative Practice Group.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Shaun Keegan

Shaun Keegan Co-founder & CEO Solar Landscape His company is a leading developer of (and model for) community solar projects on commercial and industrial rooftops.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Jerry Keenan

Jerry Keenan President N.J. Alliance for Action For 50 years, the Alliance for Action has been at the forefront of discussion around all energy and infrastructure projects and initiatives.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Shawn LaTourette

Shawn LaTourette Commissioner N.J. Department of Environmental Protection You may not like all of DEP decisions (issues are always 50-50), but you can’t take comfort that they all come after a thorough and thoughtful discussion of the issues.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Brian Lipman

Brian Lipman Director Division of Rate Counsel He represents the interests of consumers of regulated electric, natural gas, water/sewer and other areas.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Mark McDonough

Mark McDonough President N.J. American Water The largest water utility in N.J. is helping towns across New Jersey make necessary and overdue updates to their water facilities.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Charles “Chaz” McFeaters

Charles “Chaz” McFeaters President & chief nuclear officer PSEG Nuclear PSEG’s nuclear program figures to be a key component of any and all clean energy models for the future.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Patrick Migliaccio

Patrick Migliaccio Chief operating officer N.J. Natural Gas A leader in the company’s transformative CarbinX carbon-capture system, which enables users to turn their carbon emissions into a nontoxic solid called pearl ash.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Eric Miller

Eric Miller Executive director Governor’s Office of Climate Action and the Green Economy He is a passionate advocate for the green economy, someone who has initiated high-impact policies.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Valerie Montecalvo

Valerie Montecalvo Founder & CEO Bayshore Recycling Their facilities are a premier destination for the recycling of concrete, asphalt, brick, block, bulky waste, construction debris and non-hazardous petroleum contaminated soil.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Kyle Nolan

Kyle Nolan Chief operating officer SJI Renewable Energy Ventures A key leader in company’s renewable energy efforts, including the creation of one of the largest food waste-to-renewable natural gas facilities in the U.S.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Doug O’Malley

Doug O’Malley Director Environment New Jersey The longtime leader of Environment New Jersey is a leader in all things energy/environment. He is playing a leading role at ChargEVC, too.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Melissa Orsen

Melissa Orsen Senior vice president; President South Jersey Industries; South Jersey Gas As senior vice president of South Jersey Industries, she provides strategic oversight and drives full alignment of operational excellence across SJI’s collective utility operations.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Ed Potosnak

Ed Potosnak Executive director League of Conservation Voters Strong leader of LCV, which aims to build political power to protect people and the planet.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Grace Power

Grace Power General counsel, EVP of government affairs Solar Landscape A “great get” for Solar Landscape. She is one of the top energy lawyers in the state — and previously served as chief of staff at the BPU.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Karen Reif

Karen Reif Vice president — renewables and energy solutions Public Service Electric & Gas Reif oversees the company’s growth of solar energy, energy efficiency, demand response and alternative fuel vehicle programs.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Kris Singh

Kris Singh CEO Holtec International His Camden-based company is a global supplier of equipment and services for the nuclear, solar, geothermal and fossil power generation sectors.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Tracy Straka

Tracy Straka Executive vice president Creamer Environmental She serves as an environmental adviser to business and construction trade groups — and serves as chair of the Environmental Business Council, the state’s largest environmental trade association.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Dennis Toft

Dennis Toft Chair, Environmental Law Group CSG Law The definition of an industry thought leader and icon.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Steve Westhoven

Steve Westhoven CEO N.J. Resources Key leader of an energy company that is proving to be a leader in transformation toward and development of alternative clean energy solutions.

ROI Influencers Power List 2025: Energy & Environment — Chao Yan

Chao Yan Founder & CEO Princeton NuEnergy Heads an innovative U.S.-based clean-tech company that is a leader in new-age lithium-ion battery recycling technology.

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