Edward N. Krapels is a leading authority on energy issues, markets and policy, and one of the foremost developers of energy transmission projects in the United States.

As an investor, he is the Founder of Anbaric Holding, LLC, which is the umbrella organization over various energy projects that Mr. Krapels and his partners and investors are developing. Among those projects is the Neptune Regional Transmission System (www.NeptuneRTS.com), a $600+ million independent HVDC transmission project between the PJM market and Long Island. Mr. Krapels is Chairman of Atlantic Energy Partners, the initial developer of Neptune.

Mr. Krapels is a principal in developing a second 660MW HVDC connection – the Hudson Transmission Project – between PJM and New York City. This project was selected by the New York Power Authority in its 2005 RFP process for New York City capacity.

In late 2006, he established and was named Chairman of the New England Independent Transmission Company, which is developing another major HVDC transmission line in New England, the Green Line.

In 2008, he joined several partners in the development of Viridity LLC, a company dedicated to developing projects that couple intermittent energy sources with demand response programs.

As a consultant, he founded Energy Security Analysis, Inc. (www.ESAI.com) in 1985, and continues to advise its Financial Energy Markets Service. ESAI is one of the international energy industry's best known and most widely used research and analysis firms, with clients in most major energy consuming and producing countries.

As a financial advisor, he has provided valuation and due diligence services to many prominent investors in the energy arena. As a valuation advisor, Mr. Krapels works with ESAI’s asset valuation team. In these efforts, ESAI and Mr. Krapels have continuously stressed the importance of the location of energy assets in the transmission grids, and as a result, have helped clients avoid the excessive valuations in the energy industry that were so common in the late 1990s and early 2000s.

As a risk management advisor, Mr. Krapels has assisted major utilities, end users, and government agencies. He has developed a series of Guides to energy hedging strategies for Risk, which have been used by hundreds of companies around the world. He remains one of the authorities on the appropriate uses of hedging tools and on the distinctions between hedging and speculating in energy markets. Mr. Krapels has been a registered Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA).

He received his Ph.D. at the Johns Hopkins University, his M.A. at the University of Chicago, and his B.A., at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. A native of the Netherlands, he is now a U.S. citizen and makes his home with his wife, Sarah Emerson, and their two sons in Andover, Massachusetts.