Teresa Lutz

Teri has been working in the energy sector for more than a quarter of a century. While working for an awesome utility as a distribution planning engineer, her responsibilities ranged from completing distribution system fault studies to designing over-current protection schemes to managing the capital budgets (and she is pleasantly surprised at how much this experience is now again relevant with the advent of distribution integrated resource planning initiatives across the U.S.).

After earning an MBA, Teri’s responsibilities shifted to figuring out how to be more customer friendly, more cost efficient, and more reliable – with energy efficiency programming becomming a key component for each of those objectives. In 2011, Teri moved into a consultant role expanding her opportunity to work with utilities across the U.S. as they design and implement energy efficiency and demand response programs – and now, as they think more deeply about how these programs combined with newer tech can change how the gird is planned and managed.