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Ogilvy Government Relations is working for Avangrid sustainable energy company related to offshore wind power and transmission matters.
The Interior Dept. on May 11 approved Avangrid’s Vineyard 1, an 800-megawatt project, as the country’s first large-scale wind project.
Construction will begin later this year and result in a facility that will power 400K homes and businesses in Massachusetts. The 62 turbines will be located 15 miles off Martha’s Vineyard.
Madrid-based Iberdrola energy giant owns an 81.5 percent stake in Avangrid. Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners is part of the Vineyard 1 joint venture.
Ogilvy's eight-member Avangrid team includes Tony Bullock (chief of staff to ex-New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan), Moses Mercado (deputy COS to former Rep. Dick Gephardt), Dean Aguillen (senior advisor to now Speaker Nancy Pelosi) and Karissa Willhite (deputy COS to Jersey Senator Bob Menendez).
WPP owns Ogilvy.
Gagnier Communications has hired Frontera Energy's Brent Anderson as managing director in Calgary, which is the capital of Canada’s energy sector.
Ogilvy Government Relations has signed on with St. Louis-based Peabody Energy, which is America’s top coal producer.
Steven Soper, a six-year veteran at ExxonMobil who ran its US state government relations practice, has joined FTI Consulting in Dallas.
Rachel Ryan, deputy head of corporate communications at Masdar, the Abu Dhabi Future Energy Company, is joining FTI Consulting in March.
Sarah Venuto, director of external affairs at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, will join Cornerstone Government Affairs on Feb. 1, 2023.
