# Jamal Burki

> Jamal Burki is the co-founder and CEO of Renewance, Inc., an Elmhurst, Illinois company that manages industrial and grid-scale batteries across their full lifecycle - installation, monitoring, decommissioning, repurposing, and recycling. A former Motorola telecom engineer turned energy-storage operator, he built Renewance in 2015 with two ex-GE Energy Storage colleagues to solve a problem few were watching: what happens to the millions of batteries powering the clean-energy transition once they wear out. Under his leadership the company has commissioned and serviced over 20 gigawatt-hours of storage, decommissioned more than 100 megawatt-hours, and built RenewanceConnect, an AI-assisted platform for battery asset management and regulatory compliance.

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at Renewance, Inc.
- **Organizations:** Renewance, Inc., IHI Terrasun Solutions, GE Energy Storage, Motorola
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** B.S. Electrical Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, M.S. Computer Engineering, Illinois Institute of Technology, M.S. Engineering Management, Northwestern University
- **Known for:** Co-founded Renewance in 2015 to create a dedicated battery lifecycle-management category, Commissioned and serviced over 20 gigawatt-hours of battery energy storage, Decommissioned more than 100 megawatt-hours of battery systems

## Career timeline

- **1990s** — Engineer and global deployment leader at Motorola, working on telecommunications technologies
- **2000s-2010s** — Director of Global Projects & Services at GE Energy Storage; expanded operations from 3 to 25+ countries
- **2010s** — President of IHI Terrasun Solutions, building solar-plus-storage systems for renewable developers
- **2015** — Co-founded Renewance, Inc. with Tom Newhall and Sander Jacobs, all former GE Energy Storage leaders
- **2024** — Renewance raised an $18M Series A (reported); completed headquarters expansion including a Monitoring Center
- **2025** — Launched the Renewance Monitoring Center; partnered with GreenPowerMonitor (a DNV company); Renewance marked its 10-year anniversary

## Achievements

- Co-founded Renewance in 2015 to create a dedicated battery lifecycle-management category
- Commissioned and serviced over 20 gigawatt-hours of battery energy storage
- Decommissioned more than 100 megawatt-hours of battery systems
- Built RenewanceConnect, an AI-integrated platform for battery asset lifecycle and regulatory compliance
- Renewance recognized as a winner of the U.S. Department of Energy Battery Recycling Prize
- At GE, expanded the energy-storage business from 3 to 25+ countries
- Launched the Renewance Monitoring Center in early 2025

## Latest updates

- **2025-05** — Renewance partnered with GreenPowerMonitor, a DNV company, to combine monitoring with lifecycle services for North American battery storage deployments.
- **2025-01** — Renewance launched its Monitoring Center in Elmhurst, Illinois to provide real-time battery asset analytics for BESS and EV sectors.
- **2025** — Renewance marked its 10-year anniversary.

## Links

- Website: https://renewance.net
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/jamalburki

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