Location Walnut Creek, California, United States Regions San Francisco Bay Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Male
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Greg Tinfow is the former founder and CEO of Energy Informatics. Greg Tinfow started Energy Informatics to address a specific problem: the mismatch between a rapidly-evolving energy services industry and the software tools necessary to make service providers successful and profitable. That goal has grown out of a lengthy involvement in science,
energy policy, engineering, and software development spanning more than thirty years at venues as diverse as the US EPA to some of the leading energy service providers in North America.
Before personal computers existed in government, he was developing desktop applications for financial analysis of energy technologies at the Energy Economics Branch of the EPA’s Office of Policy Analysis in Washington, D.C.—using a “repurposed” Lexitron word processor. His analysis and reprogramming of DOE’s COAL1 computer model was used by EPA to estimate the economic cost of “buying” various delays in the rise of atmospheric CO2 (published as “Can We Delay a Greenhouse Warming” in 1983: EPA-230-10-84-001).
As a consultant to energy industry R&D organizations in the mid-‘90s, he led development of some of the first web applications for on-line self-service by electricity customers. He has built software development efforts from the ground up as CTO or in the lead technical position at pioneering energy service providers including New Energy Ventures (now part of Constellation Energy), MACH Energy, EnFlex, and SunEdison; and has been a consultant to a variety of energy and technology companies.
His academic background includes an A.B. in Chemistry and Policy Studies from Dartmouth College and an M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University.
