First Wind Employees Update

Steve Schauer and Steven Chwiecko have new jobs at First Wind, a wind power company headquartered in Newton. Schauer, who has served as First Wind's vice president of finance since joining the company in November 2008, was promoted to senior vice president of finance and treasurer. In this new position, he will be responsible for all project finance, tax equity, corporate debt capital, and treasury operations. Chwiecko joins the company as senior vice president of commercial asset management. Mr. Chwiecko has more than 25 years of experience in the unregulated power generation area focusing on asset management and acquisitions, most recently for Atlantic Power Corp. In this newly created role at First Wind, Chwiecko will oversee the company's leases, power sales agreements, REC sales contracts, and interconnection agreements for current operating wind projects.