Cory has deep experience across multiple sectors and leadership fronts, including a stint as consultant director for RAD London and director at the University of Oxford Science Park. Staunton previously was director of communications at Thames Estuary and head of external engagement at East West Railway Co.
“Hover’s frontier technology sits right at the point where innovation meets purpose: practical solutions that genuinely help organizations build a better, more resilient future” Staunton said. “What drew me to Hover is the clarity of its ambition and the sincerity of its ethos.”
Company founder and leader Griffin is certainly an impassioned advocate of new ways in generating microgrid power, including Hover Energy’s rooftop wind power connections. Hover Energy last year started a partnership with South Carolina-based Alternus Clean Energy focused on projects serving data centers and commercial and industrial customers.
The Alternus-Hover joint venture will utilize Hover’s microgrid portfolio featuring wind generators and energy control systems. Alternus will contribute its solar portfolio, project financing and development expertise, the company said.
Griffin was a keynote speaker at the Microgrid Knowledge 2025 Conference earlier this year in Dallas. One of the key themes, and toughest challenges, focused on at MGK 2025 was the tidal wave of data center and artificial intelligence expected in the coming years.
Griffin’s key point was that microgrid integrators, developers and supply-chain partners must analyze the wave of growing AI and computing capacity, as well as industrial electrification, more from a demand perspective to understand how to help customers fix their energy problems effectively.
“We have not spent enough time understanding the loads,” Griffin said during the MGK keynote at the Sheraton Dallas. “We must become experts on what we need to do from a consumption level.”
Hover Energy mounts its wind turbine arrays along the windward edges of building rooftops where they can potentially generate power 24 hours a day. Solar also can be mounted elsewhere, with the combined microgrid assets controlled by Hover’s Renewable Energy Router and integrated Energy Management System.
Late last year, Hover Energy announced its collaboration with tech giant IBM on using digital infrastructure to improve asset lifecycle management. The deal partners Hover’s wind powered microgrid technologies with IBM’s Maximo Application Suite.
