ABOUT US
A proven team of experts.
DM Renewables was founded to build upon the principals’ extensive best-in-class industry partnerships, developed over the years, to provide integrated site selection, land acquisition and development for the renewable energy industry.
Principals have over 30 years collective renewable energy development experience in wind, solar and battery storage. While developing over 1 GW+ of renewable energy, they have taken projects from greenfield to commercial operations while engaging with a wide range of stakeholders.
DM Renewables LLC is a Texas based developer specializing in the development of solar, wind and battery energy storage (BESS) in the ERCOT electric market of Texas and Southwest Power Pool (SPP).
Randy Delkus – Partner/ Director
Randy Delkus has spent the last twenty-five years starting, building, and selling companies. Most recently, Randy was the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of the Board of CitizensRx, a full-service Pharmacy Benefit Manager (PBM), which grew to be one of the largest U.S. based middle market PBMs. Part of Citizens’ explosive growth involved the opening of a specialty pharmacy, PraxisRx, in 2014 which was licensed in all 50 states and covered all disease states. CitizensRx sold a minority stake to Blue Cross Blue Shield’s venture fund in 2015, completed a debt recap and equity sale to a private equity firm in 2017 and again in 2019. Randy named his successor CEO in 2020 and officially exited the Board in 2023.
Randy also has extensive experience with venture capital, private equity and mergers and acquisitions. Prior to CitizensRx, he was Partner, President and CEO of a venture capital firm specializing in high tech start-ups. While the firm was industry agnostic, they did take a position in clean energy. Of note, one of their portfolio companies is on track to achieve a $2Bn valuation. During this period, Randy also provided financial and business consulting to a developer of wind energy. Additionally, Randy spent ten years in senior management positions in the provider-side of healthcare including serving as CEO of one of St. Louis’ premier healthcare institutions. In addition to running the day-to-day operations, he was also responsible for overseeing the financing and building of a 525,000 square foot 378 (in-patient) bed replacement facility using $55MM in municipal bonds. Randy resides in St. Louis, Missouri.
John McNair – Partner/ Director
John is a founding partner and Director of Land Acquisition at Hill Country Wind Power, a utility scale wind project developer, as well as, a founding Partner at Clean Power Texas, a utility scale solar project developer. John has managed the lease-up of 250,000+ acres in ERCOT for renewable energy projects over his career.
A seasoned renewable energy project developer and licensed Texas real estate broker, John has taken greenfield projects through the development process, while engaging with a wide range of stakeholders. Since 2008, John’s leasing efforts have led to the development of 1.2+ GW of wind and 1.6+ GW of solar projects in ERCOT. An experienced project originator, John developed a portfolio of renewable projects using GIS data combined with building personal relationships.
John’s experience includes project management, strategy, market analysis, M&A due diligence, GIS and cartography, permitting, land entitlements, project siting, interconnection and transmission, as well as coordinating all site-related development tasks, and maintaining stakeholder relations throughout the development process.
John is a hands-on 6th generation Texas ranch owner/ operator, and received the Family Land Heritage Award from the Texas Department of Agriculture. John earned a BBA from the University of North Texas and operates a land brokerage, based in San Antonio, TX.
Pete Delkus – Partner/ Director
Pete Delkus has over 15 years of extensive experience in utility scale renewable energy, including fundraising, financial analysis and project development from the initial discovery phase through commissioning.
Pete has developed over 2.8 GW of wind and solar in ERCOT and has been involved in all stages including: project siting, land acquisition, energy forecasting, environmental assessment, permitting, transmission and interconnection. Pete is a founding partner at Hill Country Wind Power, a utility scale wind developer. Additionally, he is a founding partner at Clean Power Texas, a utility scale solar developer.
Pete Delkus is also Chief Meteorologist at a television station in Dallas, Texas with over 30 years of meteorology experience. Pete holds a Bachelor of Science from Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville and did his Master level meteorology work at Mississippi State University. He is board certified by the American Meteorological Society and the National Weather Association and holds a Seal of Approval from these two organizations.