Speed to power
We deliver power on the customer's timeline, not the utility's, so they can commit to AI, manufacturing, and growth with confidence.
About
Built around you.
Bison Energy Systems is a full-service energy infrastructure developer. We design, permit, finance, and build complex, multi-offtake projects for customers who can no longer wait for the grid. We start with the buyer and the economics of their market, then engineer the project around them.
Our story
From Bison Energy Systems to Bison Energy Systems.
We began as Bison Energy Systems, built on a simple thesis: the best energy projects start with the customer, not the technology. As the market shifted, one need rose above the rest. The companies driving the next decade of growth, from data centers to advanced manufacturing, can no longer get power on the grid's timeline. We changed our name to reflect the full scope of what we build, power and clean molecules, while keeping the discipline that defined us from the start.
The bison reintroduction is our model. A species nearly lost, brought back through patient, coordinated effort, restoring the systems around it. We take the same view of infrastructure: build the foundational projects well, and the markets around them grow.
America has built at this scale before. The railroad and electrification eras of the late 19th and early 20th centuries showed what industry, technology, and private capital can do when they organize behind a generational priority, and they took real innovation in how projects were financed and structured. Power is the binding constraint on the next decade. Bison Energy Systems exists to build the infrastructure that meets it, alongside the financing innovators making it possible.
Why Bison
Competitive advantages that matter.
Built around the customer
Every project is engineered around the highest-value demand for that buyer, from powered and cooled rack space to regional clean fuels.
Power and molecules
Most developers pick one vertical. We develop both, and find the sites where they combine into multi-revenue projects.
The team
Best-in-class professionals assembled for mission-critical execution.
A full-stack team of professionals from oil and gas, power structuring, energy law, technology, and project finance. Every capability needed to take a project from proposal to completion is available in-house, so customers work with one team from start to finish.
Alexandra (Alex) Goldstein
Co-Founder, CEO and Board Chair
New York, NY
Alex serves as Co-Founder and CEO of Bison Energy Systems. She previously co-founded Ambient Fuels, a Generate Capital-backed hydrogen developer recently acquired by Electric Hydrogen, leading that company through a successful fundraise and scale-up.
Prior to her time in the energy transition, Alex spent ten years in investing. She began her career as part of the founding team of Manor Road Capital, a long/short equity hedge fund, working as a research and investment professional until 2019. Alex then joined the corporate strategy and M&A team of Buck Global, an H.I.G. Capital portfolio company, which was successfully sold to Arthur J. Gallagher & Co.
Alex received her A.B. from Princeton in History in 2011. She wrote her undergraduate senior thesis on the development of U.S.-Saudi relations during World War II, with a particular focus on energy security.
Alex sits on the board of the Children's Environmental Literacy Foundation (CELF), a New York and Houston-based organization focused on bringing sustainability education to children from pre-K through 12th grade. She is an avid classical violinist, and lives in New York City with her husband and two daughters.
Josh Sutton
Co-Founder, Chief Commercial Officer
Houston, TX
Josh Sutton is a Co-Founder and Chief Commercial Officer of Bison Energy Systems. Josh is an Assistant General Counsel at Western LNG. He previously practiced in the project development space, with a focus in both traditional energy projects and energy transition projects, at Sidley Austin, to which he had returned in 2021 after 7 years living in Saudi Arabia and working for Saudi Aramco as Senior Counsel.
There he was involved in the negotiations of the joint venture arrangements, construction contracts, financing and offtake agreements for cogeneration power plants, petrochemical facilities, maritime shipyards, and equipment manufacturing facilities. Before moving to Saudi Arabia, Josh was an associate at Sidley Austin, and before that at McDermott, Will & Emery, in each case focusing on the development, purchase and sale of power facilities domestically and globally.
Josh earned his BA in History from Rice University, and his JD, cum laude, from the University of Texas School of Law. In between those periods of study, Josh was a volunteer in the United States Peace Corps, teaching Environmental Education in Tobati, Paraguay.
When not at work, or supporting his three teenagers in their extracurricular activities, Josh enjoys long motorcycle trips, having ridden the ring road of Iceland, the Highlands of Scotland, the Pyrenees and the Italian and Swiss Alps.
