R F Hemphill

R. F. Hemphill became an instant energy expert with minimal credentials when he was thrown into the energy business by the White House at the start of the 1973 oil embargo. He subsequently worked at the Tennessee Valley Authority, and for thirty-five years was a senior executive at AES, a global electric power corporation. He founded AES Solar and built it into one of the world's largest solar companies with fifty plants distributed in eight countries around the globe. He was educated at Yale...See more

R. F. Hemphill became an instant energy expert with minimal credentials when he was thrown into the energy business by the White House at the start of the 1973 oil embargo. He subsequently worked at the Tennessee Valley Authority, and for thirty-five years was a senior executive at AES, a global electric power corporation. He founded AES Solar and built it into one of the world's largest solar companies with fifty plants distributed in eight countries around the globe. He was educated at Yale and UCLA and in Vietnam as an infantry platoon leader. Along the way he survived airborne and Special Forces training and four million miles on United, mostly in coach. His previous books are Dust Tea, Dingoes and Dragons, Stories from the Middle Seat and Goats Ate Our Wires. He lives in Encinitas, California with two cats, one of whom tolerates him. See less