Laura McCarty
Loving working at the intersection of energy markets and distributed energy resources. \"Whatever thy hand findeth to do, do thy doggonedest\" - King Solomon and Clarence Day
- Role
- CEO at RFPpower
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Laura McCarty
Working on the front lines of a fundamental transformation toward the distributed transactive energy marketplace. 20+ years of experience in organized wholesale energy, capacity and flexibility markets; energy trading, risk management and utility operations. Major focus in the intersection of the aggregation of distributed energy resources (DERs) and the distribution and transmission networks.Work experience includes two of the “Big 4” Management Consultancies – Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) and Deloitte Consulting. Past experience includes projects with large and small utilities and energy marketers in assessing, selecting, developing and implementing energy trading and risk management (ETRM) software systems.Specialties: Distributed Energy Resource (DER) aggregation and integration/DERMS. Wholesale ETRM - Energy trading, scheduling, settlements, ISO/RTO shadow settlements (CAISO, NYISO, ERCOT, PJM), and risk management process and systems experience in the energy industry: bilateral power contracts, direct and virtual PPAs, Demand Response/DRMS.
Experience
CEO
Jun 2025 — Present
Bringing automation and AI-enablement to Power Procurement to fast-track the selection and deployment of new generation assets and distributed energy resources to the grid.
Education
University of Illinois Chicago
Bachelor of Science - BS, Mathematics and Computer Science
Skills
- Etrm
- Energy Trading
- Scheduling
- Settlements
- Energy
- Risk Management
- Integration
- Software Implementation
- Business Analysis
- Management Consulting
- Program Management
- Strategic Planning
- Business Strategy
- Trading Systems
- Requirements Analysis
- Risk
- Derivatives
- Portfolio Management
- Requirements Gathering
- IT Strategy
- Commodity Markets
- Business Process Improvement
- Settlement
- Commodity
- Management
- Smart Grid
- Financial Risk
- Energy Markets
- Process Scheduler
- Energy Industry
- Sdlc
- Hedging
- Energy Policy
- Quality Assurance
- Electric Power
- Trading
- Project Portfolio Management
- Renewable Energy
- Business Process
- Natural Gas
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