Sarah Nielsen, Executive Director of Transportation-Renewables and Storage, Consumers Energy

A five-year veteran at Michigan-based utility Consumers Energy, Sarah Nielsen is the company's Executive Director of Transportation-Renewables and Storage, Consumers Energy. Her team team runs the utility programs for demand response, electric vehicles, renewables, and pricing. 

Prior to joining Consumers, Nielsen was a Fellow, working on the Veterans Advanced Energy Project, at the Atlantic Council. She also has been a director of corporate strategy for Consumers Energy and served on the Truman National Security Project. 

Nielsen is a graduate of the Yale School of Management and University of Dayton.

EnergyTech is focused on the mission critical and large-scale energy users and their sustainability and resiliency goals. These include the commercial and industrial sectors, as well as the military, universities, data centers and microgrids. The C&I sectors together account for close to 30 percent of greenhouse gas emissions in the U.S.

Many large-scale energy users such as Fortune 500 companies, and mission-critical users such as military bases, universities, healthcare facilities, public safety and data centers, shifting their energy priorities to reach net-zero carbon goals within the coming decades. These include plans for renewable energy power purchase agreements, but also on-site resiliency projects such as microgrids, combined heat and power, rooftop solar, energy storage, digitalization and building efficiency upgrades.