Women in Renewable Energy

This book provides a breadth and depth of innovative and impactful research led by women investigators in the field of renewable energy. This book showcases the diversity of renewable energy solutions being deployed commercially in the United States and internationally, including new research underway. The chapters collectively cover the entire spectrum of large, utility scale to small, distributed-scale renewable energy technologies, as well as new operating practices in buildings necessary to fully capture the value of renewable energy. The chapters also discuss technical and market considerations of renewable energy resources, plus customer attitudes and acceptance. These topics touch on many of the challenges facing the world today and these solutions by women researchers are valuable for their technical excellence and their non-traditional perspective. 

Ms. Wang is a Technical Director at Energy Solutions and has been with the company since 2011. She develops and leads demand management projects for the Distributed Energy Resources (DER) team and drives new projects development in DERs. In 2021, she served as a  contributing author of A National Roadmap for Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings for the U.S. Dept. of Energy,  which quantifies the national potential, and discusses the challenges and opportunities of developing and deploying efficient, smart, connected, and flexible building equipment and controls as a clean energy resource by 2030. She has provided technical expertise for the Statewide California Investor-Owned Utilities Team on SB 49, which requires the California Energy Commission to foster the development of smart appliances that can shift demand for electricity to when renewable power production is at its peak. She completed the Antelope Valley Transit Authority electric bus-to-grid operator efficiency project for the California Energy Commission. She also led the launch of the non-residential technology incentives programs for automated demand response for Pacific Gas and Electric and the Sacramento Municipal Utility District, as well as emerging technology pilots for Southern California Edison.

Prior to joining Energy Solutions, Ms. Wang was a Principal at Rocky Mountain Institute. She is an active member of Peak Load Management Alliance. She is also a member of the leadership team in the Association of Women in Water, Energy and Environment as well as Grid Forward. Ms. Wang has presented at industry conferences including the Demand Response & DER World Forum and American Council for an Energy Efficient Economy.

Ms. Tietjen is the President and CEO of Technically Speaking, Inc. An electrical engineer, she has spent more than 45 years in the electric utility industry where she provided planning consulting services to electric utilities and organizations comprising the electric utility industry and served as an expert witness before public utility commissions and other government agencies. Today, she is a worldwide advocate for telling women’s stories and writing women into history. An author and international speaker, Tietjen is the co-author of the award-winning and bestselling books Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America and Hollywood: Her Story, An Illustrated History of Women and the Movies. Her latest award-winning book, released in 2022, is Over, Under, Around, and Through: How Hall of Famers Surmount Obstacles. She is the series editor for Springer’s Women in Engineering and Science series. Tietjen graduated from the University of Virginia (Tau Beta Pi, Virginia Alpha) with a B.S. in Applied Mathematics (minor in Electrical Engineering) and received her M.B.A. from the University of North Carolina – Charlotte. She sits on the board of directors of Georgia Transmission Corporation and has been inducted into the Colorado Women’s Hall of Fame, the Colorado Authors’ Hall of Fame and the National Academy of Construction. Tietjen is a registered professional engineer in Colorado.