Lisa Wood

Lisa Wood is Executive Director of the Institute for Electric Efficiency (IEE), a program established by the Edison Foundation to accelerate the industry’s energy efficiency efforts and increase the industry’s energy efficiency investments. IEE serves electric utilities, electricity customers, and energy policymakers across the country as a clearinghouse and resource for information, best practices, and innovation. In particular, the Institute acts as a forum to advance energy efficiency and demand response among electric utilities; promote the sharing of information, ideas, and experiences in energy efficiency and demand response in the power sector; and develop a resource base of effective business models, practices, and processes.

Wood joined IEE after more than two decades of consulting with electric utilities on retail customer issues.  In that role, she directed numerous economic, financial, and market analysis studies for leading electric utilities nationwide, with an emphasis on energy efficiency, dynamic pricing, value of electric service reliability, and customer rate options.

Wood has written numerous articles and is a frequent speaker on energy efficiency and demand response issues in the electric power industry.  She most recently authored, The Right Price: Dynamic Pricing can provide Benefits to Customers and Utilities Alike; Assessment of Electricity Savings in the U.S. Achievable through New Appliance/Equipment Efficiency Standards and Building Efficiency Codes; Moving Toward Utility-Scale Deployment of Dynamic Pricing in Mass Markets; and Making the Business of Energy Efficiency Both Scalable and Sustainable.  Wood is a member of:  the Executive Group for the State Energy Efficiency Action Network, the Board of Directors for the National Energy Foundation, and the International Association for Energy Economics.