In the latest episode of BOOM! It's on the Blockchain we Interview with Jonathan Knight, CEO of Uprise Energy to discuss how the blockchain can be used in renewable energy production, his latest partnership with AWS and decentralized energy trading and energy supply. 

Jonathan Knight is a Cofounder and CEO of Uprise Energy, a San Diego, CA based startup that is building the world’s first commercially sized mobile wind turbines. Prior to Uprise, Jonathan was the Senior VP and General Manager of Knight & Carver Yacht Center, an award winning and globally recognized custom yacht builder that also operated the largest marine repair facility on the West Coast of the Americas. 

In the late ‘90s, Jonathan leveraged the company’s reputation as a leader in composites to begin offering repair services to utility scale wind turbine companies. The success of this venture spun-off its own division - Knight & Carver Wind Group - that evolved from blade repair to new blade manufacturing for the largest OEM’s in the space and created a Field Services division with nearly 400 employees that serviced wind farms all around the world. 

The crowning achievement of this division came when the company teamed up with the US Dept. of Energy and SANDIA Laboratories to develop the STAR Blade®, which is the #1 performing wind turbine blade ever built.

Beyond managing the business operations at Uprise, Jonathan is the architect behind the now patented Dancing with the Wind feature of the Uprise wind turbines and has played an integral role in the development of all aspects of the technology.

Jonathan holds a Business Administration degree from San Diego State University, is happily married with two awesome kids and is an avid cyclist amongst other sporting interests.

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