6th Texas Energy Forum 2025 Distinguished Speakers Include

Jordan Solomon has held the position of President and CEO of Ecostrat for over 25 years where he oversees the Biomass Advisory Group and the Biomass Supply Group. He has developed feedstock supply chains for over 5 million tons of wood fiber, agricultural, municipal and post-industrial organic biomass feedstock. His areas of expertise include feedstock risk assessment and mitigation, feedstock sourcing, contracting, logistics and management.

He is Chairman of the BDO Zone Initiative (www.bdozone.org) with the goal of creating a network of 1000 Biofuel Development Opportunity Zones in the US and 100 in Canada to catalyze the buildout of SAF and other biofuel, renewable chemical and biogas manufacturing plants, de-risk capital investment in those projects, and create jobs in distressed communities.

Jordan led the 6 year project to develop the new US National Standards and Risk Ratings for Biomass Supply Chain Risk (BSCR) for the US Department of Energy (BETO) as well as the sister project in Canada which led to the CSA/SCC designation of the BSCR Standards as a National Standard of Canada in March 2021.

As head of Ecostrat’s Advisory Group, Jordan directed development the Biomass Supply Network© the largest biomass supply database in North America. He has led bioenergy project consulting teams for JP Morgan, Shell, Coca-Cola, Johnson Controls, Siemens, Enviva, NREL, DTE Energy, Macquarie Bank, Tennessee Valley Authority, Southern Company, Generate Capital, Noresco, EDF, McKinstry, LaFarge, PGE and the Canadian government.

As head of the Biomass Supply Group, Jordan has overseen development and operation of biomass supply chains for millions of tons of feedstock for bioenergy, biofuel, and renewable chemical projects throughout North America. He has negotiated, structured supply chains, and financed and executed bulk shipments of biomass overseas to Europe and Asia.

He sits on the Board of the Mid-Atlantic Sustainable Biomass Consortium for Value-Added Products (MASBio) at West Virginia University and on the Bioenergy Feedstock National User Facility Advisory Board (Idaho National Laboratory/US DOE). He previously served on the Board of First Asset Renewable Power FlowThrough Limited Partnership as a Director of First Asset Power Funds Inc. (I, II, III, IV) and on the Board of Directors of the public SPAC Dundee Acquisition Ltd. (TSX: DAQ.UN) and currently sits .

Jordan holds a B.A. Honors (Eng. Phil.) from University of Western and a Masters in Environmental Studies with a specialty in Corporate Environmental Strategy from York University.