Solar & Energy Storage Summit 2026

Xizhou Zhou

Executive Vice President, Head of Power & Renewables

Wood Mackenzie

Xizhou Zhou oversees Wood Mackenzie’s Power and Renewables’ function. He's responsible for the content development and commercial growth of the business line, ranging from new product development to regional expansion.  His expertise is in electric power and clean energy market analysis and forecasting, power market design and policy analysis, renewable energy business models, and company strategies. Prior to Xizhou joining Wood Mackenzie in 2024, he was vice president leading S&P Global Commodity Insight’s power and renewables practice globally. In his capacity as Head of the Power, Gas, Coal, and Renewables division in the Asia Pacific region for IHS Markit before its merger with S&P Global, Xizhou played a pivotal role in the substantial expansion of the firm's reach by establishing new research and consulting teams in key locations including Beijing, Singapore, Penang, Delhi, Seoul, Tokyo, and Brisbane, fostering the growth of the company's energy business in the region. Before starting his career at S&P Global through one of its predecessor companies, Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), he worked as a consultant on regulatory economics for Industrial Economics, Inc. in Boston and as a research analyst at the World Resources Institute in Washington, D.C. Xizhou holds a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Environmental Management, both from Yale University. He is based in Washington, D.C.

Camillo Serna

SVP of Strategy and External Engagement

North American Electric Reliability Corporation

Camilo Serna serves as senior vice president of Strategy and External Engagement. In this role, he leads and manages NERC’s external engagement activities, including outreach to and engagement with federal and provincial agencies and associations (United States and Canada), industry stakeholders, NERC’s Member Representatives Committee, and the broader stakeholder community. He also leads the development and implementation of NERC’s communications strategy. Finally, in his role, Mr. Serna leads the development of multi-year strategies—working with the NERC Board of Trustees, chief executive officer, and the Executive team—to ensure NERC meets its reliability and security vision and mission. Prior to joining NERC in 2024, Mr. Serna served as vice president of Rates and Regulatory Affairs for FirstEnergy, leading the development and implementation of federal and state regulatory strategies across the company’s five-state footprint. Prior to that, Mr. Serna worked for DTE Energy, first as vice president of Corporate Strategy and then as vice president of Regulatory Affairs. Before DTE, he also worked at Eversource Energy as vice president of Strategy and Policy. In his prior roles, he led the development and implementation of strategic, corporate development, and energy policy initiatives. Mr. Serna began his career in management consulting firms—primarily with Oliver Wyman—where he helped utilities and energy companies in Europe, Latin America, and North America with the development of strategic and operational initiatives. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Los Andes University (Bogotá, Colombia) and a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

Marie Schnitzer

Director, NY Distributed Generation Ombudsperson

National Grid

Chris Seiple

Vice Chairman, Energy Transition and Power & Renewables

Wood Mackenzie

Chris is the Vice Chairman of Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables group. He is responsible for ensuring thought leadership, advising on the strategic direction of the business, and senior stakeholder engagement and relationship management. Chris brings 30 years of global power industry experience to this role. His career has spanned strategy consulting work for power companies and banks at Cambridge Energy Research Associates (now part of IHS/S&P), debt and equity financing of power-related investments at GE Energy Financial Service and managing a portfolio of power plants owned by EFS. He also led the power organisation at Genscape, where he expanded its real-time power markets monitoring business into analytics and software service businesses through both organic growth and acquisitions. Chris came to Wood Mackenzie through its acquisition of Genscape and now works with our 250 researchers across North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.

David Brown

Director, Energy Transition Practice

Wood Mackenzie

David is the director of our Energy Transition Practice. He began his career with Wood Mackenzie in 2011 as an analyst covering European markets. From 2014-2016, he was posted in our Beijing office, where he led the integration of our China energy research. He presented regularly on China’s macroeconomic outlook, gas and LNG markets and coal-to-gas switching goals. Leveraging his global experience across multiple areas of the energy industry, David moved to our Houston office in 2016. He is a key author of our Energy Transition Outlook, Accelerated Energy Transition Scenarios and emerging technology coverage. He regularly advises strategy groups, company leadership teams, and investors on major long-term questions facing energy markets.

Robert L. Tabb

President & CEO

Signal Energy

Jennifer Cooper

Global Head of Supply Chain

Enfinity Global

Kasim Khan

Senior Research Analyst, Storage

Wood Mackenzie

Shannon Anderson

Distributed Power Plant Policy Director

Solar United Neighbors

Shannon Anderson is Solar United Neighbors' Distributed Power Plant Policy Director. In this role, Shannon directs SUN’s policy and advocacy work to advance Distributed Power Plants (DPPs) across the country, providing technical and policy recommendations to utility regulators and lawmakers in multiple states, Puerto Rico, and the District of Columbia to help ensure DPP program success. Prior to SUN, Shannon worked as a Staff Attorney and Organizing Director for Powder River Basin Resource Council, a Wyoming nonprofit organization with the mission of ensuring the responsible development of the state’s natural resources for the benefit of current and future generations. During her time at the Resource Council, Shannon represented the organization in numerous Wyoming Public Service Commission proceedings, in other state and federal administrative agency proceedings focused on energy and natural resource issues, and also before state and federal courts. She also served as the organization’s main lobbyist, representing the organization before legislative committees and directly lobbying during legislative sessions. Shannon works from a solar-powered home office in her hometown of Sheridan, Wyoming.

Elissa Pierce

Research Analyst, Solar Module Technology and Markets

Wood Mackenzie

Elissa is an analyst in Wood Mackenzie’s power & renewables practice. Her research coverage includes solar module markets, technologies and supply chains across the globe. Before joining Wood Mackenzie, Elissa was a solar design engineer and worked on rooftop and ground-mount residential solar PV and battery storage projects.

Benjamin Hertz Shargel

Global Head of Grid Edge

Wood Mackenzie

Exercising ten years of executive experience in clean technology, Ben leads research across electrification, grid digitisation and decentralisation, distributed energy resources, and demand flexibility. Before joining Wood Mackenzie in April 2021, Ben was with retail clean energy provider Rhythm, where he was Head of Data Science and Demand Management. Prior to Rhythm he was Vice President, Advanced Grid Services and Analytics at EnergyHub. Ben is a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center and serves on the External Advisory Committee of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Energy and Environment Program. Education PhD, Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles MS, Mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University BA, Computer Science, Northwestern

Norbert Thouvenot

Chief Operating Officer

Neoen

Leader with extensive experience in the management of large industrial operations across more than 30 countries, in the communication, commodities, and energy sectors, including with the world’s 3rd largest commodity producer, a leading European telecom operator, and a fast-growing renewable energy producer Executive responsibilities in the management of large assets portfolios during their acquisition, development, construction, and operation, with accountability for revenues and investments Accomplished leader with the ability to build and energize cohesive and effective teams internationally; problem solver and strategic thinker with a track record of transforming organizations in competitive and innovative environments.

David Martin

Manager, Business Operations

Lightsource bp

Dave Martin is a Manager of Innovation at Lightsource bp, working on the application of automation, robotics, and AI technologies within the renewable energy sector. He is responsible for evaluating and validating new technologies, developing models to assess their long-term value, and planning the scalable implementation of these solutions. Before joining Lightsource bp, Dave worked in corporate finance and consulting and holds an MBA from the University of Cambridge.

Kristy Kramer

Vice President, Gas & LNG Research

Wood Mackenzie

With two decades of gas & LNG expertise, Kristy Kramer leads our LNG strategy and market development, focusing on pivotal issues shaping company strategies in the gas & LNG industry. Her role is instrumental in ensuring Wood Mackenzie delivers cutting-edge solutions to address clients' evolving needs in this dynamic sector. Since joining Wood Mackenzie in 2016, Kristy has held several leadership positions, including global head of gas & LNG consulting and global head of gas & LNG markets research. These roles have allowed her to collaborate closely with clients across the entire gas value chain, providing comprehensive fundamental market research, tailored strategic engagements and in-depth commercial due diligence. Kristy is a speaker at prominent industry events, known for her insightful analysis and forward-thinking perspectives on the gas & LNG market. Her career began at ExxonMobil, where she gained valuable experience in various roles. Key responsibilities included evaluating deal opportunities and developing portfolio strategies for both proprietary gas and joint venture LNG assets. This foundation in one of the world's leading energy companies has informed her strategic approach and industry insights. Education MBA, Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis BSc, Mechanical Engineering, Washington University in St. Louis

Martin Pochtaruk

President

Heliene Inc.

Martin Pochtaruk has 35 years of experience managing manufacturing and innovation businesses across Europe and the Americas. He founded Heliene, a technology leading high quality solar PV manufacturer in 2010, the company is challenging the solar industry status quo by putting customers first. It’s doing so as well by manufacturing high quality, competitively priced solar PV modules made to order in North America. By supporting customers with its in-house logistics team and just in time supply chain solutions. And by being remarkably responsive. Prior to founding Heliene in February 2010, he was the VP of Business development at Algoma Steel Inc., a Canadian Public Company, where he was responsible for driving the company’s value-chain integration strategy, creating and increasing value to shareholders (Dec 2004 to June 2009). Before Algoma Steel, Pochtaruk spent over fifteen years at Tenaris (NYSE: TS) in Argentina, Italy, the USA and Canada, on positions ranging from applied research (1990), product development for stringent applications (1991-1994), marketing (1995-1996), M&A (1997-1999) and supply chain management (2000 to November 2004). Relevant experience to project execution: • 1996 to 1998 – Take over and turn around of Dalmine, Italy (Tenaris) • 2000 – start up of the idled Sault Ste Marie pipe factory for Tenaris, • 2010 – start up of Heliene in Sault Ste Marie, • 2018 – replacement of the Mountain Iron, Minnesota manufacturing facility for Heliene. • 2022 – investment and start up of Mountain Iron line 2 for Heliene, • 2023 – raised USD$ 170 million to accelerate the growth of Heliene. In 1989 Martin graduated in Physics from University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Martin is fluent in Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese and English.

Anne-Laure Chassanite

North America B2B Supply CEO

Engie

Anne-Laure Chassanite is the CEO of ENGIE Resources, one of the largest energy retailers in North America, and ENGIE’s B2B Power Retail business. Anne Laure has over 15 years of experience in the energy industry, working across the entire value chain in Europe and USA. After managing Back Office operations in Gas wholesale, she switched to managing a commercial retail group and then led operations at a French gas utility as it transformed to host biomethane. She joined ENGIE North America as VP of Power Supply in the B2B Retail affiliate in Houston. She left the US for a few years, becoming Managing Director for Storengy UK, the largest Natural Gas Storage site in salt caverns in the UK, before coming back to Houston. All across her career she has supported international business development with a focus on sharing of best practices and market intelligence. Anne Laure has initially joined ENGIE in Paris in 2007, she holds a Master's degree in Law and is graduated from Science Po Paris.

Luke Lewandowski

Vice President, Global Renewables Research

Wood Mackenzie

Luke brings more than 15 years of experience in renewable energy, spanning equipment and solutions sales, forecasting and analysing markets, developing a global research portfolio, and managing a research practice. Luke joined Wood Mackenzie via the acquisition of MAKE in 2017. Having spent nearly 10 years at MAKE, he had helped to develop the company’s brand and service and establish its presence in North America. Earlier in his career, he was an industry analyst for LM Wind Power, a GE Renewable Energy business. Since joining Wood Mackenzie, Luke has played an integral role in the integration and development of our Power & Renewables Practice. He transitioned from managing our global wind research to focusing on management of our research practice in the Americas across power, wind, solar, energy storage and the grid edge. He now heads our Global Renewables Research team, which includes wind, solar, and energy storage.

Joel Vyduna

EVP of Commercial and Technology

Key Capture Energy

With over two decades of experience in renewables, energy storage, and power markets, Joel Vyduna leads Key Capture Energy’s commercial strategy and technology integration. His expertise spans project development, execution, and asset management, with a portfolio exceeding 35 GW, including 15 GW of battery energy storage. He has played a critical role in advancing energy storage adoption across the industry, bridging technical and commercial perspectives to drive market growth.

Sagar Chopra

Senior Research Analyst, Solar

Wood Mackenzie

Sagar is a senior research analyst on our Power & Renewables team, focused on PV system pricing for US and LATAM regions. He also supports research on global system pricing, and covers floating solar market research. Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie in 2021, Sagar worked as an electrical engineer, designing and commissioning utility-scale PV projects in the New England and New York region.

Elizabeth Brennan

Chief Operating Officer

Luminace

Allison Weis

Global Head of Storage

Wood Mackenzie

Allison leads our global research into energy storage. She joined Wood Mackenzie in 2023 from Ascend Analytics, where she was VP of Battery Solutions. In that role she built out a storage valuation product and consulting practice as well as operational platform optimising storage, hybrid and renewable bids into day-ahead and real-time power markets. Earlier in her career, Allison was an engineer at Tesla, focused on modelling stationary energy storage for large-scale renewables integration and analysis of revenue and battery degradation in different wholesale power markets.

Michelle Davis

Head of Global Solar

Wood Mackenzie

Michelle is the head of Global Solar at Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables. She leads our solar research practice, setting the research agenda, identifying emerging industry themes and cultivating a team of solar thought leaders. She is also the lead author of the quarterly publication of the US Solar Market Insight report, produced in collaboration with SEIA (the Solar Energy Industries Association). Prior to joining Wood Mackenzie, Michelle held various research positions focused on renewable energy, covering topics ranging from the energy-water nexus to utility investments in electric vehicle charging stations. She is a prominent thought leader in the solar industry and has been quoted in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Bloomberg, NPR and Forbes, among others. Michelle is the co-chapter leader for WRISE Arizona, a networking organisation dedicated to empowering women in renewable energy. Education BS, Biology, Arizona State University MBA, Antioch University

Powin

Powin is a U.S.-based global energy storage integrator dedicated to enabling clean, reliable energy. With data-driven software controls, proven hardware, and experienced end-to-end project execution, Powin delivers scalable systems tailored to meet the needs of modern energy demand. Supported by a globally diversified, ethically sourced supply chain, Powin bolsters energy distribution to alleviate grid congestion, reduce costs, and strengthen aging infrastructure. Relentlessly focused on innovation and lasting value, Powin optimizes energy management, mitigates risk, and ensures predictable energy throughout the lifetime of its projects.