Robert C. Kelly
Chairman

A founding partner of DKRW Energy, Mr. Kelly has over 25 years of experience in the energy business.  After graduating from West Point with a B.S. in Engineering in 1968, he embarked on a 13 year career in the US with assignments which included a tour in Vietnam, troop unit assignments in Armor including company command of a US Army main battle tank company and a tenured Associate Professorship at the US Military Academy.  During his Army career he was sent to graduate school at Harvard University where he earned an MPA in 1970 and a Ph.D. in Economics in 1981.

 In 1981 he left the Army and held senior executive positions at Continental Resources, General Electric and Houston Natural Gas.  In 1985, Houston Natural Gas merged with InterNorth to form Enron. During his time with Enron, he founded a number of asset based businesses in the power sector. From 1985 to 1988 Mr. Kelly was the President of Enron Cogeneration Company and developed a portfolio of 5 co-generation projects that were profitably sold to Dominion Resources in 1988.   

Between 1988 and 1993, Mr. Kelly was the principal developer of the Teesside Project in the UK where he led the commercial effort to develop, build, finance and place into operation an 1875MW combined cycle facility.  Teesside Power, a $1.2 billion project financed facility, opened up 2 new North Sea gas fields, which led to the creation of the CATS pipeline and created a 10,000 barrel per day natural gas liquids facility.

Upon returning to the U.S. in 1993, Mr. Kelly founded Enron Renewable Energy Corp. through the creation of Amoco/Enron Solar and Enron Wind Corp.  Amoco/Enron Solar was sold to BP in 1997 becoming a major component of what is now BP Solar.   Enron Wind Corp. was sold in 2002 to GE becoming what is now GE Wind Energy. In 1997 Mr. Kelly left Enron as an employee and spent 5 years consulting on energy projects in the US and abroad.

In 2002, he co-founded DKR Development LLC, the predecessor company of DKRW Energy, LLC. At DKRW Energy Mr Kelly was instrumental in securing from GE in 2002 the land lease rights and transmission interconnect rights to develop the Sweetwater Wind Power Project and in negotiating the Power Purchase Agreements (PPAs) and equity commitments to finance what is now the 585MW Sweetwater Wind Power Project.

 In 2004 Mr Kelly was instrumental in securing under an option agreement for 180mm tons of coal in the Carbon Basin in Wyoming from Arch Coal to form the key asset in the Medicine Bow Coal to Liquids Project. The Medicine Bow Project is the most advanced US coal to liquids project using GE and Exxon technology to make gasoline from coal. The project is scheduled for financing in 2011 and commercial operation in 2014/2015. Mr. Kelly is now the Executive Chairman of DKRW Advanced Fuels LLC, the coal to liquids arm of DKRW Energy.