Clean & Renewable Energy · Development & M&A · Richmond, Virginia

Austin A. Jones

I help shape how renewable energy gets built — the strategy, the deals, and the teams behind it.

Fourteen years in energy — originating, structuring, and negotiating the utility-scale power, renewable, and storage deals that turn ambitious goals into operating projects.

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01 Profile

For over a decade I've helped shape how renewable energy gets built — from the financial models behind multibillion-dollar decisions to the acquisitions, partnerships, and regulatory strategy that turn megawatts into operating projects.

I'm a creative, entrepreneurial leader drawn to uncharted territory: new business lines, untested ideas, and the kind of complex, high-value deals that don't arrive with a playbook. I build and empower teams to think creatively, take informed risks, and execute with discipline.

I think about this work in decades, not deal cycles. What I shape today should hold up long after the market around it has changed.

Having worked both the utility and the developer sides of the table — from inside the utility serving Northern Virginia, the world's largest data-center market — I bring an end-to-end command of how power deals get structured, interconnected, and approved, paired with M&A rigor, regulatory fluency, and AI-enabled tooling.

  • BasedRichmond, Virginia, United States
  • Experience14 years in energy
  • EducationB.A. Economics, University of Virginia
  • CredentialM&A Certificate, Columbia Business School
02 Selected Work
2022 — Now
Dominion Energy

Manager, Business Development — Distributed Energy Resources

Own the strategy for Dominion's entire distribution-connected solar program leading a team of originators and developers and directing origination, valuation, structuring, capital allocation, and Virginia SCC regulatory strategy. Separately lead a cross-functional equipment-procurement program for the company's entire Generation organization, and build AI-enabled tools that compress valuation, permitting, and diligence.

2022
SolRiver Capital · Korsail Energy

Director, Origination — Strategic M&A & PPAs

Originated 600+ MW of utility-scale solar across new, untapped markets, and developed 500+ MW of solar-plus-storage across three RFP solicitations in the Desert Southwest and PJM — including Korsail's first successful RFP down-selection.

2019 — 2022
Dominion Energy

Business Development Manager — Utility-Scale Acquisitions

Negotiated and closed 200+ MW of renewable acquisitions and structured a first-of-its-kind development services agreement that delivered a dedicated 400 MW solar pipeline to the regulated Virginia utility — plus multiple power-purchase agreements across educational, financial, and municipal stakeholders.

2016 — 2019
Dominion Energy

Senior Financial Analyst — Corporate Financial Analysis & M&A

Built the financial models behind multibillion-dollar energy investments, created the company's electric-vehicle evaluation tool to inform executive strategy, and helped launch BrightSuite® — now Dominion Energy Solutions — a new behind-the-meter business segment.

2012 — 2016
Dominion Energy

Earlier — Financial Analyst & Electric Distribution Designer

Began in customer-solutions design then transitioned to financial & business services, building the operational and analytical foundation that shaped the rest of the path.

In the public eye

Bringing solar to CarMax Park, Richmond's new ballpark

Led the development team and represented Dominion Energy on its first solar project in its home city — roughly 1 MW across the stadium roof and adjacent carports, generating clean power for the local grid.

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03 Try the Work

Build the site plan

Three parcels, rising stakes. Pick a project, then tap the plot to place it. Every level has more than one layout that works, and the leanest ones earn three stars.

    Figures are simplified from real project economics: about 250 homes per megawatt of solar.
    04 Expertise

    Origination & Transactions

    • Wholesale & structured transactions
    • PPA negotiation & structuring
    • Project acquisitions & M&A

    Generation & Strategy

    • Utility-scale solar & storage
    • Onsite & co-located generation
    • Grid interconnection & capacity
    • Regulatory & market strategy

    Leadership & Innovation

    • Team leadership & development
    • Cross-functional program leadership
    • AI-enabled innovation
    • Financial structuring & M&A
    05 Leadership & Community
    06 Beyond the Work

    Outside the deals, I'm drawn to the people, places, and culture that make life rich. I love spending time with family, including visiting my family up the street and across the world. I'm always looking for a new place to explore, a concoction to test in the kitchen, or something interesting to learn. I'm a musician with deep appreciation for all things artistic — all different types of music, visual art, dance, architecture, history, fashion, design. The same curiosity, attention to detail, and care for quality shows up in the work.

    07 Contact

    Let's build something worthwhile.

    Emailaustinalexanderjones@gmail.com Phone+1 804.477.2062 LinkedIn/in/austinalexanderjones
    LocationRichmond, Virginia, United States