Andrew Peterman
Director, Advanced Energy Solutions
Rivian
Andrew currently leads Rivian’s Advanced Energy Solutions Team, focused on developing products, services, and solutions to enable Rivian and its customers to accelerate the decarbonization of the energy grid. At Rivian, he has helped support the deployment of over 250MW of clean energy and guided renewable energy investments towards projects that not only add clean power to the grid, but also carry strong benefits in the key areas of community, climate, and conservation. Prior to Rivian, Andrew led initiatives at Google and Apple that have helped transition their global supply chains to use clean energy in manufacturing. He led direct investments into new clean energy projects in Japan and supported the development of a first of its kind supplier-funded clean energy investment fund in China. Andrew previously worked for Arup and Walt Disney Imagineering. At Disney, he developed corporate energy and climate change strategies and received a patent along with his co-authors for new methods of predicting building energy consumption. Andrew holds B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford in Civil and Environmental Engineering.