Brendan Duval, founder and CEO of Glenfarne Group, took the main stage at the Alaska Sustainable Energy Conference on Thursday, delivering a dynamic presentation that blended personal history with ambitious projections for Alaska’s natural gas future.
Duval, who now leads the company working with the state to develop the Alaska LNG project, began by introducing himself to the crowd of about 1,000 attendees at the Dena’ina Center in Anchorage, saying they may as well get to know him because he will be working with a lot of them. He shared that he holds dual citizenship in the United States and Australia, and that he worked his way through college as a welder before eventually launching Glenfarne, a global energy infrastructure firm.
“I understand what it takes to build something from the ground up,” Duval said, emphasizing the importance of workforce development in Alaska…