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David Sandbank
Vice President, Distributed Energy
NYSERDA
David Sandbank is NYSERDA’s Vice President of Distributed Energy Resources, overseeing NY-Sun, Energy Storage and Clean Transportation. David, a former solar developer, joined NYSERDA in late 2014 as the director of NY-Sun bringing private market experience and incorporating results driven, public private partnership culture. New York has become a shining beacon on the national distributed solar stage with an increase of 3,400 MW deployed under David’s leadership and now ranks number one in the nation in community solar deployment and second in the nation for distributed solar deployment. In 2019 David was promoted to Vice President of Distributed Energy Resources at NYSERDA and now also oversees the energy storage and clean transportation programs.
Prior to joining NYSERDA, Sandbank worked as a solar developer, helping a start-up grow to more than one hundred employees and oversaw company operations, marketing, engineering, and installation teams. In November 2013, Sandbank was elected vice-president of the New York Solar Energy Industries Association to actively work with government agencies, policy makers and utility companies to help advance the solar industry in New York.