Ben Gardner joins Aries Clean Energy as Vice President of Engineering

Ben Gardner has joined Aries Clean Energy as Vice President of Engineering  and will direct all efforts in design, construction, and operations, as well as the company’s ongoing research and development programs.

Ben Gardner is recently engaged as a consultant with several energy companies, provides Aries with almost 20 years of progressive engineering, project management, project controls, commissioning/startup and plant manager experience. His career path in the power and chemical industries include Southern Company Services (Birmingham, AL), Range Fuels (Denver, CO), and RTI International (Research Triangle Park, NC). As an independent resource, he has worked on the technical and management teams at industry such as Agilyx Corporation, Sundrop Fuels, and Brightleaf Power.

Aries CEO, Greg Bafalis said that Ben’s experience in taking companies from early stages of development all the way through to commercialization will be invaluable to executive management and to their engineering teams. His previous work with fluidized bed gasification is especially important to us, and Ben brings a waste conversion and green energy knowledge base that is rare to find even in a global marketplace.

Gardner said that the great news here is that Aries has already proven its patented technology and installed the world’s largest downdraft gasification plant for a city here in Tennessee. That commercialization step is critically important for the company to move to the next level. What he see now in the project development pipeline is very exciting, and they are moving into a phase of rapid growth through new deployments across the United States as well as offshore.

Image: Ben Gardner, Aries Clean Energy (PRNewsfoto/Aries Clean Energy)