Ravi Adibhatla is Executive Director of Business Development and Prospecting for CMS Enterprises. In this role, Adibhatla identifies, develops and implements the company’s strategy across its wind, solar, biomass and natural gas generation and storage portfolio. He also leads initial prospecting, valuating and due diligence supporting wind, solar, energy storage and siting projects totaling about 15 gigawatts (GW) of nameplate capacity annually.
Adibhatla’s energy and renewables experience spans more than ten years. He led CMS Enterprises' acquisition of three solar projects - Delta Solar Power I and Delta Solar Power II of Lansing, Mich., Flambeau Solar Partners of Flambeau, Wis., and Hart Solar in Hart, Mich.
Previously, Adibhatla served as Director and Senior Business Development Manager with primary CMS Energy subsidiary Consumers Energy, a regulated utility. In this role, he helped develop a rooftop solar pilot program and two community solar projects at Michigan’s Grand Valley State University and Western Michigan University.
Adibhatla previously conducted environmental risk assessments, managed contaminated sites, developed remedial studies and implemented soil and groundwater remediation technologies for several Michigan-based consulting firms.
Adibhatla holds master’s degrees in engineering and business administration from Wayne State University and the University of Michigan, respectively and is a graduate of Andhra University’s college of engineering (Vizag, India). He is a licensed engineer in the state of Michigan.