Mr. Welch has served as one of our independent directors since April 2025. Since January 2023, Mr. Welch has served on the board of directors of Onward Energy, a renewables portfolio company in the JP Morgan-managed Infrastructure Investments Fund (IIF), assuming the role of chair in January 2024. Onward Energy was formed in January 2023 through the merger of Novatus Energy, where he served as chair of the audit committee from 2016 until the merger, and Southwest Generation, where he served as chair of the board of directors from 2018 until the merger. Since March 2023, he has also served on the board and audit committee of Aspen Power, a distributed generation solar company that develops, constructs, owns and operates projects throughout the United States. From 2016 through 2019, Mr. Welch served on the board of TransMontaigne Partners (NYSE: TLP), an oil storage master limited partnership, where he was chair of the conflicts committee and a member of the audit committee. From 2004 through 2014, he was the chief executive officer of Atlantic Power Corporation (NYSE: AT), an independent power company with fossil and renewable power generation facilities in the United States and Canada, and served on its board of directors from 2006 through 2014. From 1989 through 2004, he served in a variety of roles in John Hancock s Bond & Corporate Finance Group, culminating in his service from 2001 through 2004 as Senior Vice President and Head of Bond & Corporate Finance. Mr. Welch received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering from Princeton University, and a Master of Business Administration degree with a concentration in Finance from Boston College. We believe Mr. Welch's experience as a renewable energy chief executive officer and investment finance executive, as well as his service on multiple public and private boards of directors, make him qualified to serve as a member of our board of directors.