Markets/Coverages: FM Global Names Leadership for New Renewable Energy Unit

Commercial property insurer FM Global announced the launch of a renewable energy unit to help clients in the transition to alternative energy through research and innovation, and to support the overall advancement of the renewable energy industry.

FM Global’s Renewable Energy unit leaders include:

• Jim O’Brien, division manager, Canada and specialty Industries
• Doug Patterson, head of renewable energy
• Russell Jannetto, renewable energy client service leader
• Chris Kosloski, renewable energy underwriting manager
• Cassian Walker, renewable energy engineering manager
• Michael Perron, renewable energy market lead

FM Global unveiled the new initiative as part of its presence at the RISKWORLD conference in San Diego this week. In July, FM Global will offer a new policy for renewable energy operation in the U.S. Next year it plans to offer a renewable energy construction policy to support clients from the design and build stage through operation of renewable energy assets.The new unit serves the United States and Canada today and will launch globally later this year.

The FM Global Renewable Energy unit will focus on research, standards development and loss-prevention engineering around utility-scale ground mounted solar, onshore wind power and battery energy storage systems (BESS). For 70 years, FM Global has served power generators in these and myriad other energy sectors, including hydropower, biomass and waste-to-energy.

As a research-driven organization, FM Global recently completed six significant research projects on solar, wind and energy-storage systems. More than a dozen more are in progress. The company has already developed renewable energy guidelines for clients, available at no cost in FM Global’s Property Loss Prevention Data Sheets.

Topics Energy Leadership