John Aubrecht, a leading energy executive, has been appointed executive director of the Harvard Medical Collaborative (HMC), a new organization that will assist HMS and its six affiliated Longwood-area hospitals in managing energy use, planning and conservation.
For more than three decades, HMS and its neighboring hospitals have worked together on energy planning as customers of a local cogeneration facility. As executive director of the new collaborative, Aubrecht will explore both technological and financial solutions, with a goal of developing an ongoing “green” energy strategy for conserving and securing highly reliable, affordable energy and utility supplies to meet the needs of HMS and its Longwood affiliates.
“HMC is fortunate to retain the services of someone as highly skilled and experienced as John Aubrecht,” said Eric Buehrens, chief operating officer of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and co-chair of the HMC board. “Our member institutions look forward to enhanced collaborative planning around our energy and utility needs.”
Aubrecht arrives at HMS with extensive experience in the unregulated electric power generation market and in energy trading and investments. He has spent the last two decades working in the development, financing and asset management of energy generation facilities. Most recently, Aubrecht was senior vice president of development for Wasatch Wind LLC, in Park City, Utah.
