Michelle is a principal with Baker Tilly’s energy and infrastructure advisory practice, with more than 15 years of experience in the energy sector. Her career has focused on analysis and strategy around the nexus of business strategy, technology, and regulatory policy. She helps clients work through challenges balancing resilience, decarbonization and cost in energy portfolio development. Her work helps clients across commercial and industrial, and state, local, and federal governments tackle sustainable strategy development across operations, energy consumption and procurement and supply chains.
- Leader in critical energy issues and systems including renewables, distributed energy resources, microgrids, transactive energy/energy marketplaces, hydrogen and their interplay with energy economics, federal and state policy, and regulations and business.
- Extensive experience in public private partnerships and multi-entity consortia development to meet high impact, challenging goals (including federal, state, local and commercial stakeholders). Advising clients creating and managing multiple entity partnerships to achieve technical goals
- 10 years of experience in standing up large program management offices in the administration of more than 700 megawatts of energy generation projects
- Strategy development for both go-to-market/market entry studies as well as decarbonization efforts. Decarbonization strategies across scopes 1 and 2, and supply chain
- Policy and regulatory analysis from federal to state and local
- Led feasibility studies, market studies and technoeconomic analyses for microgrids and electrification projects across four continents for more than 40 different clients
- Managed the greenhouse gas accounting for more than 30 private equity portfolio companies, including scopes 1 and 2, along with strategic road maps for short and midterm emissions reduction
- Advised emerging energy companies engaged in new technology research and development on business strategy, market sizing, regulatory and policy impacts and market entry strategies for cutting-edge energy technologies. Technologies areas included high voltage grid hardware/software, energy storage and solar photovoltaic (PV)
- Capital stack optimization for energy and infrastructure projects including federal tax credits; federal and state grant and loan identification, application and administration and compliance
- Led owner’s engineer technical due diligence engagements focused on district energy distributed energy resources (including microgrids, combined heat and power, central utility plants, thermal and electrical energy storage, distributed solar, water and wastewater) and utility-scale renewables
- Published more than 35 technical publications and presentations
- Global Industrial Cyber Security Professional (GICSP)
- GIAC Critical Infrastructure Protection (GCIP)
- Project Management Professional (PMP)
- Agile Project Management
- Change Management Advanced Practitioner
