Bio

Michael Wheeler, Managing Director – Execution, leads execution teams for sponsor and investor clients, as well as supporting buy-side client opportunities. Over the past twenty years, Michael has executed nearly $7B in equity and debt financing transactions across 25 utility-scale wind, solar, and energy storage projects totaling more than 4GW of installed renewable energy capacity. He has led and completed highly structured multi-party transactions across North America with more than twenty US and European commercial banks for tax equity and debt financing. In addition, he has been responsible for managing joint ventures with institutional partners invested in renewable projects. Prior to joining CCA Group, Michael was Senior Director of Project Finance at EDF Renewables (EDFR) where he was responsible for raising debt and tax equity for EDFR’s North American projects. During his final two years with EDFR, Michael concurrently served as the Project Director for an 840 MWp solar + 340 MWh storage portfolio under development/construction in California. Before his tenure at EDFR, he was a summer associate at GE Wind. Michael has also held Program Manager / Project Engineer roles at hydrogen fuel cell system developers H Power Corp and Analytic Power Corp. Michael earned his Master of Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth and his Bachelor of Science from Virginia Tech.