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    Elizabeth Salerno

    Principal
    GQS New Energy Strategies

    Liz has spent more than 20 years working across some of the clean energy industry’s most significant periods of growth and change, from the early expansion of wind power while at the American Wind Energy Association to helping shape today’s transmission and interconnection reforms at FERC. As a Principal at GQS New Energy Strategies, she advises clients on transforming energy market rules, transmission and interconnection policy, and navigating the increasingly complex FERC and RTO landscape.

    Prior to GQS, Liz served as Lead Advisor to former FERC Chairman Rich Glick, where she helped advance the transmission planning and generator interconnection reforms that became Order Nos. 1920 and 2023, while also helping launch the inaugural Joint FERC-NARUC Task Force on Transmission to strengthen federal-state engagement. She also advised on inverter-based resources, grid-enhancing technologies, and market issues across MISO, SPP, and the western U.S.

    Before FERC, Liz held global strategy roles at Siemens and Siemens Gamesa across the wind and gas turbine businesses. She began her career at AWEA, where she built out and led the organization’s market and policy analysis team and contributed to DOE’s landmark 20% Wind by 2030 report.

    Liz has also been an active leader across the industry, previously serving on the boards of WRISE (formerly WoWE) and the Wind Energy Foundation, and currently serving on the board of the Center for Resource Solutions.

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