Joe Spease is CEO of WindSoHy, LLC a company developing wind, energy storage, white and green hydrogen projects. Prior to establishing his own company he was president of Pristine Power from 2000-2008. At Pristine Power he worked to develop wind, solar and hydrogen projects.

He served on an energy storage task force in 2021 for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s SPP RTO/ISO to provide advice on how to integrate energy storage projects into the grid. He also works on the Department of Energy’s Energy Storage Safety Working Group writing the safety guidelines for all energy storage technologies. He currently serves on the DOE “Tiger Team” to break down barriers to development of projects with Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES). He also serves on the DOE hydrogen task force called CHyTAC.

He serves on the new, 2023 DOE US-India-IESA Energy Storage Partnership to advance energy storage project development in India. He was part of the inaugural DOE/Commerce Department Net Zero World conference in December 2022. He was an advisor to the Australia Hydrogen Conference held in Melbourne in November 2024. He was selected by DOE to serve on the LDES National Consortium. The Commerce Department sponsored his recent two-week Trade Mission to China to promote CAES/green H2 technology. WindSoHy is working on two project development proposals in China with the China CEIC energy investment committee and the China Energy Storage Alliance.

WindSoHy hydrogen project development now focuses on the use of hydrogen combustion chambers in the CAES process; hydrogen power plant development to replace natural gas power plants; use of non-PGM electrolyzers like Anion Exchange Membrane electrolyzers to avoid supply chain and price problems; development of low-price carbon fiber cylinders for pressurized hydrogen storage on vehicles; development of cost-effective above ground storage of hydrogen; development of low-price compressors for hydrogen projects; development of the white hydrogen resource; and use of low-price wind power at night for powering electrolyzers.

WindSoHy is committed to white and green hydrogen and zero carbon LDES technologies needed to get to Net Zero emissions affordably.