Battery developer Elevate announces Joshua Rogol as CEO
Joshua Rogol. Image courtesy ArcLight Capital Partners
US infrastructure investor ArcLight Capital Partners and its Fund VII portfolio company Elevate Renewables have announced the appointment of Joshua Rogol as Elevate’s CEO.
Rogol was previously president of Strata Clean Energy, having played an instrumental role in their growth to becoming one of the largest domestic independent battery developers and operators.
Eric Cherniss, who was previously President of battery storage developer Elevate has been promoted to head of development for ArcLight.
As CEO, Rogol and the Elevate team will look to build on their prior success, existing significant battery development portfolio, and leverage ArcLight’s deep power expertise to pursue brownfield and data center-related battery development opportunities.
“I am excited to join Elevate and ArcLight at this pivotal moment in the battery storage industry,” said Rogol in a release.
“ArcLight brings to the table significant power expertise and resources as one of the leading infrastructure investors in the power sector which Elevate can leverage to provide customized and creative development solutions for strategic partners, utilities, hyper scalers and data centre developers.”
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Since 2001, ArcLight has owned, controlled or operated over 65GW of assets and 47,000 miles of electric and gas transmission and storage infrastructure representing $80 billion of enterprise value.
ArcLight says they see significant opportunities for investment associated with AI and data centre related power infrastructure which it believes it is uniquely positioned to enable given its significant experience and resources.
“We are excited to partner with Josh as CEO of Elevate Renewables” said Angelo Acconcia, partner at ArcLight. “We believe that battery storage will see significant growth as more large-scale batteries will be needed to meet the growing power and grid reliability needs associated with electrification and AI driven data center development.”
James Sullivan, director at Arclight, added: “Josh has a proven track record of developing large battery portfolios and solutions for strategic partners to help provide fast, effective and scalable infrastructure. We are excited about Elevate’s ability to provide unique customer and market power solutions.”
Elevate Renewables is ArcLight’s utility scale battery development team which is strategically positioned across major US power markets to develop and operate battery storage infrastructure.
Elevate has significant resources and a development pipeline of over 4GWs, leveraging ArcLight’s extensive portfolio of power infrastructure and captive brownfield growth opportunities.
Elevate is in advanced development at sites in New York, California, and Arizona in partnership with local utilities, load serving entities and regulators.
