Experts & Advisors
Jeremy Erndt
Senior Managing Director
Jeremy Erndt is a Senior Managing Director at Ankura, based in Atlanta. He is a seasoned power development, engineering, supply chain, and operations professional with experience in power generation, data centers, mining, infrastructure, oil and gas, transportation, and technology sectors. He has led utility-scale power, infrastructure, transmission, technology, and water projects from early development and conceptual design through Network Time Protocol and eventual operation. He is a technical and development expert across the globe and supports a variety of programs for capital project development. Jeremy is a subject matter expert in project due diligence, engineering, supply chain management, quality, constructability, operations, and maintenance for large-scale projects. Jeremy has been involved in various project-related and company mergers and acquisitions, thus providing a comprehensive track record and perspective of financial transactions at all stages.
Experience
Jeremy has two decades of experience in development, engineering, supply chain, construction, offtake agreements, and operations within energy and infrastructure projects, spanning more than 150 GW with energy projects and over $400 billion of capital expenditures within infrastructure. He has experience in constructability, operations, and maintenance of T&D, wind, solar, BESS, CCGT, O&G, and nuclear projects. Furthermore, he is an electrical engineering, power systems, SCADA, controls, and project development expert witness for energy, data center, and infrastructure projects, thus providing a cohesive expert testimony and knowledge base for all aspects required in fulfilling successful capital project delivery. Jeremy has consulted on many large-scale litigations, disputes, and claims with energy, infrastructure, and technology sectors (data center, T&D, BESS, solar, wind, CCGT, O&G, nuclear, mining, semiconductor, water, transportation)
Jeremy has vast experience providing expert testimony and reporting in many platforms across the globe, including but not limited to: ICC, ICDR, AAA, JAMS, SIAC, U.S. federal, state, and various European courts.
Jeremy’s professional experience includes:
- Confidential Data Center: Electrical investigations, including electrical implementation, failures, and power distribution.
- Confidential Transit Upgrades: Technical advisor and expert for electrical modifications and overall system incorporation.
- Confidential Data Center: Electrical investigations, including electrical implementation, failures, and power
- African Utility Scale Transmission and Substation: Electrical expert witness for HV construction dispute, including sufficiency of design within all electrical and SCADA scopes.
- Western U.S. Transmission Project 1: Electrical expert and advisory for 200 km, 500 kV transmission line.
- High Voltage Transformers: Electrical expert and advisory for 100 MW solar project.
- Confidential Petrochemical Facility: Technical advisor and expert for PLCs, DCS, gateways, and OPC protocols, including RCA historian review, block code/logic audits, and standards compliance.
- Confidential O&G Facility: Technical advisor and expert on the DCS, SCADA aggregates, system architecture, control logic, alarm log opining and analysis, safety protocols, and IEC compliance verification.
- Confidential CCGT Project: Technical advisor and expert for a dispute regarding a DCS, for a high-efficiency CCGT power block, high voltage architecture review, and technical suitability for processes, protection, and operational safety instrumented systems.
- Confidential Industrial Faculty: Electrical and controls expert for a dispute regarding the sufficiency of designs, logic, controls, risk distribution, and safety.
- Confidential Solar Portfolio: Technical advisor for operational solar module degradation and sufficiency of equipment design. Included investigation into alleged batch defects, modeling review, and assessment, relative to actual performance ratio.
- Confidential Solar Module Quality: Audits and advisory for 2 GW portfolio of projects in the U.S. Included technology and equipment assessment, FAT oversight, traceability, technology road mapping, reliability testing review, O&M, and performance ratio
- California BESS Portfolio: Expert witness and advisory for 600 MW battery energy storage dispute.
- S. Solar Portfolio: Expert witness and advisory for electrical failures, solar module underperformance, and performance ratio across 400 MW.
- Confidential Data Center Project Expert witness – sufficiency of design, including UPS and
- Australian Utility Scale Solar Project: Expert witness – engineering and performance ratio, including sufficiency of design within the SCADA architecture for large-scale project ICC
- Greece High Voltage CCGT Dispute: Electrical expert for HV system and GIS system implementation and
- BESS Confidential: Technical expert for 300 MW dispute involving sufficiency of design and
- S. Cogeneration Plant: Technical expert for O&M, fuel supply, and sale on dispute regarding a 200 MW project.
- African Utility Scale Solar Project: Expert witness – engineering and performance ratio for large-scale project ICC
- Education
- MBA, University of Massachusetts Lowell
- BS, Electrical Engineering, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Certifications
- Certified Associate in Project Management
- Affiliations
- Advisory Board – Institute for Energy Law, ITA
