ABOUT ME

Emily Wheeler is an engineer and clean energy and technology specialist committed to helping cities, companies, and the community. She launched Wheeler Energy Group in Spring 2021 to advise companies on growth, improving cross-functional communication, team development and training, capital and resource management, and leveraging optimal tools.
 

Prior to starting her consultancy, Emily was an Executive Vice President of Operations at Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS), which was acquired by Mitsubishi. SGS is dedicated to delivering products and services that enable electricity distribution companies and regulated utilities to integrate distributed energy resource (DER).  At SGS, she oversaw delivery of all projects globally, including quality standards, revenue, profitability, cash flow and meeting monthly/annual targets and managed 40+ delivery engineers, project managers and customer success staff.  Highlights of her 5-year tenure included leading the largest DERMS project SGS ever contracted, managing multi-million-dollar budgets with full responsibility for the Americas, and winning the company’s “Employee of the Year” Award in 2017.
 

From 2012-2015, Emily was a Director and Deputy Director of Cleantech Initiatives at NYU, which included establishing the Urban Future Lab. During her tenure she managed a cleantech incubator with 17+ early-stage startups, coached company CEOs on fundraising, sales opportunities, and go to market strategy, and won funding to create a Cleantech Professional Education Program focused on veterans.  She was the youngest Director level professional at NYU, and won external recognition as a top “Young New York Energy Leader” from Breaking Energy magazine.

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Emily began her career at the US Department of Energy (DOE) in Washington, DC, where she held roles as a Program Manager for the Office of Fossil Energy and as a Project Manager for the Innovative/Alternative Energy Loan Program. In these roles she helped to provide government-backed financing in support of the deployment of new, commercial scale, innovative clean energy technologies, performed technical due diligence on $8B of first-of-a-kind technology, and reviewed and monitored over $800M in grants.

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Emily earned her BS in Chemical Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic in 2008 where she was a member of Omega Chi Epsilon Chemical Engineering Honor Society, and an NCAA Student-Athlete Soccer and Lacrosse. She has also completed several MBA courses at George Washington. University’s School of Business.