LOS ANGELES — SolarReserve, the Los Angeles-based solar thermal power company, has announced the hiring of Tom Georgis as vice president of development. Georgis will be responsible for developing solar power projects in the United States and internationally.

SolarReserve holds the exclusive license for the molten salt power tower technology with energy storage developed by United Technologies Corp. (UTC) subsidiary HS Rocketdyne.

Before joining SolarReserve, Georgis was managing director of international operations at GlobalTec Solutions, a privately held technology company. Previous positions include managing director at Exodus Energy LLC, where he acted as lead developer on a number of innovative technology energy facilities, and manager of power project development at Enron International. Georgis also served nine years as a Naval Special Warfare Officer in the U.S. Navy.

Georgis graduated from Northwestern University with a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Studies and obtained a Masters of Business Administration degree from the Anderson School at the University of California, Los Angeles.

SolarReserve is a collaboration between UTC, a Dow 30 conglomerate, and U.S. Renewables Group, a private equity firm focused exclusively on renewable energy. SolarReserve holds the exclusive worldwide license to build Concentrated Solar Power plants that use a molten salt system manufactured by HS Rocketdyne, a subsidiary of UTC.