Ben Cook

Benjamin Cook is responsible for originating and structuring financing for SolarCity's residential and commercial solar projects. Benjamin joined SolarCity with more than fifteen years of experience in energy project financing and development for solar and traditional energy projects.Prior to SolarCity, Benjamin was vice president of finance at Recurrent Energy, a distributed utility-scale solar project developer. Prior to Recurrent, he served as director of structured finance and business development in SunPower Corporation's systems division. Prior to SunPower, Benjamin developed and financed projects for Bechtel Enterprises, the project finance and project development group of the Bechtel construction group. Earlier in his career, Benjamin started and ran SELCO, a solar power developer, financier, and operator focused on emerging markets.Benjamin holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and bachelors degrees in physics and economics from the University of Virginia.