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Additional Areas of Expertise:

Development, permitting, construction, financing, operation electric power generation facilities

Arnold Wallenstein is Senior Vice President and General Counsel for Advanced Power. Mr. Wallenstein brings over 30 years of experience in development, construction, financing, operational issues as well as acquisition and disposition of electric power generation facilities in the US and Europe. Mr. Wallenstein is currently leading legal and regulatory permitting effort for three major gas fired combined cycle gas fired generation facilities (1000mW, 750mW and 350mW) in the Northeast and Midwest.

He has led the legal and regulatory effort in the development, construction and financing of over 3,500 MW of power generation projects and approximately $1 billion dollars in power facility and infrastructure project financings, including the development of the 1,200 MW Mountain View Power project, currently owned by Southern California Edison Co.

In private practice Mr. Wallenstein has represented independent power companies, municipal utilities, turbine manufacturers and renewable energy companies. Mr. Wallenstein was for 16 years Assistant General Counsel of Thermo Electron Corporation (Fortune 500/NYSE) and General Counsel of Thermo Ecotek Corporation (AMEX), an independent power company with a portfolio of over 20 power infrastructure projects.

Mr. Wallenstein is currently on the American Arbitration Association’s national roster of neutral arbitrators arbitrating major disputes between Independent Power Producers (“IPP”), utilities, power purchasers, EPC contractors or equipment suppliers.

Mr. Wallenstein has a J.D. from Harvard Law School, an M.S. in Environmental Health Sciences from the Harvard School of Public Health and a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Magna cum Laude.