Bruce Frandsen

Over 40 years of diversified leadership expertise in renewable energy, sustainability, energy risk management/procurement and facilities engineering management roles.

Currently employed at Equinix, Inc. , the world’s digital infrastructure company. I am part of the renewable energy and cleantech leadership team responsible for implementing our strategy across a global footprint of 260 data center sites in 33 countries and 6 continents. We have a goal to reach 100% clean and renewable energy by 2030 and as 2023 we are at 96%. We have reduced our carbon footprint by 24% since 2019 all while our consumption increased more than 40% during the same time frame. Our portfolio of solutions includes contracted capacity of over 1GW of offsite wind and solar farm virtual PPA’s, renewable energy sourced through supply contracts/green tariffs and onsite solar. We have also deployed 50MW of Bloom Energy fuel cells at 16 locations providing a cleaner distributed energy resource to our toolbox.

Prior to Equinix, I spent 13 years with Schneider Electric Professional Services as a Client Manager leading a portfolio of global clients to value added energy risk management strategies and solutions. The 17 years prior to joining Schneider were with Perrigo, a large pharmaceutical manufacturing company, serving in advancing leadership and management roles including responsibility for all energy related activities across multiple sites and facilities.