Andres Alvarez

Andres Alvarez is a Partner at Creative Renewable Solutions LLC. At CRS, Andres develops and maintains proprietary resource adequacy, capacity expansion, and project finance models to showcase the net value of site-specific wind, solar, storage, and green hydrogen assets.  Andres is also responsible for market research at CRS, performing GIS analysis of renewable energy sites, wind and solar energy resource modeling, utility IRP/RFP/Portfolio/Queue research, wholesale market analytics, and technology assessments.  

Prior to CRS, Andres worked at Avangrid Renewables. Andres was responsible for performing competitor, industry, regulatory, innovation, and sustainability analysis to support the senior executive teams. Andres led market intelligence and analytic efforts that informed and supported the Avangrid Networks EV strategic roadmap, the Avangrid Renewables battery storage strategy, and the Avangrid electric retail business implementation plan. Andres then managed a renewable hybridization initiative for solar co-located on land utilized by the company’s 6.5GW wind fleet. He was also responsible for techno-economic analysis of renewable energy assets, energy storage technologies and emerging clean energy technologies.

Andres has worked at Iberdrola, the MIT Energy Initiative, the U.S. Department of Energy, and Argonne National Labs. Andres holds a B.Sc. in Nuclear Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and a minor in energy studies from the MIT Energy Initiative.