About Us

We help energy partners…

Find Funding

Launch Projects

Improve Reliability

Innovate & Implement

How Does Our Model Work?

Community

Residents, businesses, and anchor institutions can sponsor a project based on local needs.

Partner Power

BETH convenes the right mix of public, private, and cooperative partners to execute. 

Mission Driven Finance

As a not-for-profit, we prioritize impact over margin and reinvest results locally.

Our Story

The Broadband, Energy, Technology and Homes (BETH) Institute was created by a collection of energy innovators eager to bridge energy gaps to make more livable and comfortable environments for everyone.

Watching aging parents navigate rising costs, crumbling infrastructure, and a growingly unreliable future encouraged pathfinding BETH contributors to use their expertise and cooperation to invest in finding dynamic solutions and providing services in underserved areas.

BETH’s broad focus of broadband, energy, technology, and home, grants a bottom-up perspective to solve problems in homes and communities instead of at the corporate level. We focus on filling in logistical chasms to make energy projects – big and small – serve members, co-ops, and Generation and Transmission companies. Because keeping families, neighborhoods, towns, and small businesses running promotes economic prosperity, grid security, and a better future.

Our Mission

At BETH Institute, our purpose is to help bring the energy industry into a more proactive and stable future. Today’s energy leaders struggle with rising costs, grid insecurity, and a dynamic and vast service area with ever changing challenges. We are here to help you.

BETH assists these energy providers by launching varied projects that provide data centered approaches, analytics, battery solutions, information services, funding support and more to close the gaps in energy burdened areas.

BETH also takes the role of connector for not only generation and transmission companies and electric distribution cooperatives, but state and local energy agencies. We work with rural community leaders and economic development organizations, varied technology partners both public and private, philanthropic funding organizations, and local businesses invested in the health and success of their communities. Our goal is to make communities more livable with the people that keep towns running. 

At BETH Institute, we are prioritizing innovation and real impacts of our projects and partnerships. We believe that when we value community, we can connect, cooperate, and flourish together.

meet the team

powered by our people

Paul Breakman
Founder
Patrick Anderson
Founder & Strategic Financial Advisor
Timothy Lindhal
President of Kenergy
Catherine Klepic
Managing Director
Sanjay Chandra
Strategic Engineer
Venkat Banunarayanan
Vice President, Integrated Grid at NRECA
Mark W. Lausten
Lead Advisor, Energy & Community Projects, P.E.
Tony Thomas
Smart Grid Engineer
Justin Razon
IT Project Coordinator

Our Partnerships