Author Profile

Nicole Geneau is a leader with over 20 years of experience in clean energy, investment, commercialization of innovation and strategy. Nicole is SVP of Development for AlphaStruxure, a joint venture between The Carlyle Group and Schneider Electric that delivers custom Energy as a Service microgrid solutions. At AlphaStruxure, Nicole helps clients achieve sustainable, resilient, reliable and cost-effective energy, reducing risk and accelerating their core mission with no upfront cost.
 
Prior to AlphaStruxure, Nicole was Strategy and Market Development Director for Mortenson's Integrated Energy Solutions business, actualizing electrification trends across the company’s commercial and energy operating groups, including electrified transportation systems, microgrids, distributed energy resources and utility grid modernization.
 
Nicole also brings extensive industry experience as a leader in large-scale renewable energy development. She was previously Development Director for NextEra Energy Resources where she was a key member of the team that delivered $2.5 billion of capital investment in renewable energy generation facilities in Canada.
 
Nicole is a Sloan Fellow in Leadership & Innovation from MIT, a Fellow in Economics of Energy from the UK Foreign & Commonwealth Office (University of Reading, UK) and has a Bachelor of Commerce from Queen’s University in Canada.