About the Power Couple
Founder & Principal Consultant - Meghan Nutting, MPA
Meghan Nutting is the founder and principal at Altitude Strategies Consulting. Until recently, she served as Executive Vice President of Government and Regulatory Affairs at Sunnova Energy Corporation, a leading U.S. residential solar and storage services provider. In this role, which she held for a decade, she worked closely with company and industry leaders, nonprofits, state and federal policymakers, and regulators to craft and implement policies that provide a more stable and sustainable business environment for solar electricity generation. During her tenure at Sunnova, the company grew from a few thousand customers to nearly half a million. Prior to working at Sunnova, she served as the Director of Policy and Electricity Markets at SolarCity (now Tesla) for nearly five years. Meghan was at both Sunnova and SolarCity for their IPOs.
She has also worked as a Legislative Director for New York State Assembly member Linda Rosenthal (D-NY) and as a Press Secretary for former U.S. Senator Olympia Snowe (R-ME). Meghan has held policy positions at the World Bank and the British Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs as well as a number of environmental organizations. In these positions, Meghan has worked on, advocated for, and impacted a significant number of energy and environment-related issues and policies.
Meghan has served on a number of boards and advisory boards including the Solar Energy Industries Association, SEIA's Executive Committee, the Puerto Rico Solar and Energy Storage Association, the Renewable Energy Alliance of Houston, Think Microgrid, GridFWD, the Energy Choice Coalition, InvestHER, the Institute for Regulatory Law and Economics, Women in Solar Energy and Sunnova's Women’s Leadership Network, which she founded.
Meghan is a regular speaker and moderator at conferences where she enjoys educating people about energy related topics. She has spoken at over 50 conferences and events in the past decade and has also done numerous media interviews and podcasts.
Over the past decade, she has worked on impactful projects and issues like DOE's Puerto Rico Resilience Fund, Sunnova's $3 billion loan guarantee through the Loan Programs Office, a groundbreaking microgrid application in CA, a petition to the FTC asking them to investigate electric monopoly abuses of power, a petition to FERC (and accompanying op-ed) asking them to disallow ratepayers having to fund utility trade associations and lobbyist spending, a piece by Last Week Tonight on utilities limiting rooftop solar adoption, CA NEM 3.0, VPP rollout across the country, consumer protection, SolarAPP+, solar interconnection, IRA guidance, and trade issues. She also contributed to a paper published by the American Enterprise Institute entitled "Innovating Future Power Systems."
Meghan was named one of the Denver Business Journal’s top women in energy for 2018 and one of the DBJ’s top women in business in 2021. She was also a 2021 C3E award winner from the U.S. Department of Energy in the business category. She is a graduate of the 2023 NREL Energy Execs program. She was a candidate for the Colorado House of Representatives in 2017-18. Meghan received her BA in Biology from Cornell University and her MPA from Princeton University.
Conference Speaking History:
AriSEIA Energy Future Conference, November 2025, Keynote
Economic Liberties' Anti-Monopoly Summit, September 2025, moderated a panel on "Recharging the Utilities Sector"
RE+, September 2025, "Residential Rate Design"
Sunnova Dealer Summit, February 2025, "Policy Trends"
CO Climate Week, March 2025, "The Hard Thing about Hard Things, Renewable Energy Edition"
Deploy 24, December 2024, "One Year of VPPs: How Puerto Rico Can Inform Resilience and Power Everywhere"
SESA Summit, November 2024, "Aggregating Batteries to Support the Grid"
PV Magazine USA Week, October 2024, "Home Energy Evolution"
RE+, September 2024, "Solar Consumer Protection: Policy, Education & Practices"
Alliance to Save Energy, July 2024, "Sunnova VPPs"
SEIA Strategy Summit, June 2024, "Interconnection Moonshot Presentation"
Empower Summit, May 2024, "Residential Solar Trends"
ICWS, May 2024, "The Future of North America's Energy and Grid by 2050"
CERA Week, March 2024, "The New Duo of Power Generation and Storage"
Sunnova Dealer Summit, February 2024, "Policy Trends"
SESA Summit, November 2023, "Pioneering Battery Demand Response Aggregators"
Grid Fwd, October 2023, "VPPS: Optimizing the Customer Experience for a Distributed, Inclusive Future"
WRISE Leadership Forum, October 2023, "Clean Energy Wins and Momentum in the Biden-Harris Administration"
RE+, September 2023, "Virtual Power Plants in 2030, a Balanced Perspective"
I2X, July 2023, "IX Workforce and Training"
OEP, June 2023, "Solar’s Opportunities & Challenges Today"
ICWS, May 2023, "Minority and Women Inclusion in the Green Economy"
BayWa r.e. Business Leadership Summit, May 2023, Keynote
CREF, April 2023, "Country Spotlight Puerto Rico"
CERA Week, March 2023, "V2X/VPP Lyceum"
CERA Week, March 2023, "IRA: Accelerating Net-zero in the US"
COSSA Mountain West Conference, March 2023, "Solar, Batteries, and then What?"
Infinity Energy Dealer/Ops Conference, February 2023, "Policy Trends"
CTLR Forum, February 2023, breakout session moderator
Sunnova Dealer Summit, February 2023, "Policy Trends"
Northwestern University, November 2022, Guest Lecture
SESA summit, November 2022, "Women in Energy"
Baker Botts Energy Summit, September 2022, "Macro Risks for the Energy Landscape"
RE+, September 2022, "The Clean Energy Supply Chain: Ensuring Ethics, Resiliency and Sustainability"
C3E, July 2022, "The Storage Opportunity: Customer Demand, Market Reform & Technology Innovation"
SEIA Finance, Tax & Buyers Seminar, March 2022, "Climate Spending and Where We Go From Here"
SEIA House Auxin Briefing, May 2022
CERA Week Agora Pod, March 2022, "The Role of Decentralization in Creating a More Reliable and Resilient Grid"
Ally Energy ESG Series, February 2022, "Explore ESG: What can renewables learn from oil and gas and vice versa?"
Solar Storage Mountain West, February 2022, "Net Metering: How do we modernize rates to prepare for electrification?"
SEIA 30x30 Policy Forum, December 2021, "Policies that Support Domestic Manufacturing and Supply Chain Development", had to cancel
SESA Summit, August 2021, "Solving PREPA's Debt without Solar Taxes"
Empower Virtual Summit, June 2021, "Straight Talk: State Net Energy Metering Programs"
DOE Interconnection Workshop, June 2021, Distribution Breakout Session, moderated
Great Solar Debate, May 2021, "PPA vs Loans vs PACE"
ISNA, April 2021, "Net Energy Metering Evolutions: Staying Profitable in Changing Times"
CERA Week Agora Online, March 2021, "The Future of Energy: Decarbonization and Decentralization"
The Power Conference to Advance Women in Energy, February 2021, "Embracing Failure: What to do when things don't work out"
NY Solar Seminar, November 2020, "Positioning the NY Residential Market for Success after COVID"
Houston Energy Breakfast, November 2020, "Energy after the Election"
CREF, October 2020, "Puerto Rico: In the Spotlight", moderator
PR SESA/Suncast conference, October 2020, "Solar Taxes" and "Policies that Grow Solar & Storage"
Rice Alliance Energy Tech Venture Forum, September 2020, "Energy Transition Panel", moderated
PR-GRID, July 2020, "Ask Me Anything on Solar & Storage"
Ally Energy 2.0, March 2020, "Connecting the Dots to Reach NetZero"
Deloitte Renewable Energy Seminar, October 2019, "Role of Renewable Energy in Resiliency"
Energy Storage Summit Americas, March 2019, “Puerto Rico: Rapid Development & Microgrids”
WRISE Leadership Forum, February 2019, Moderator “Industry Trends”
Caribbean Renewable Energy Forum, November 2018, “Puerto Rico: The New Landscape for Investment in Energy”
Colorado Women’s Alliance, October 2018, “The Energy Industry’s Impact on Education and the Economy”
Princeton University Woodrow Wilson School, September 2018, Orientation Speaker
Solar Power International, September 2018, “The Roles of Storage and DER in Disaster Recovery and Resilience”
Colorado Women’s Chamber of Commerce, July 2018, “Colorado Energy Industry’s Impact on Our Business Community”
GTM Solar Summit, May 2018, “Solar to the Rescue? Solar’s Role in Disaster Relief and Energizing Remote Communities”
Gulf Coast Power Association Spring Conference, April 2018, “Perspectives on Distributed Generation and Cost Recovery”
HERWorld Global Energy Forum by PinkPetro, March 2018, “The Energy Transition: A New Future Awaits Us”
Solar Power Texas, June 2017, “Designing Rates in the Lone Star State”
Women’s Empowerment East Coast Summit, April 2017, Moderator “Women Running for Office & Careers in Public Service”
Women Take Charge by WRISE, February 2017, Moderator “WISE Women Panel”
Spark! Experience Energy, September 2016, “Unpacking the Politics of Energy in Colorado”
Executive Women in Energy, February 2016, “Solar Penetration, Net Metering and Long-Term Solutions”
GTM U.S. Solar Market Insight, November 2015, “Rate Reform and the DG Value Proposition”
Solar Power Finance & Investment Summit, February 2014, “Western Solar Markets Outlook and Analysis”
GTM Solar Summit, April 2013, “Colorado- Pending Growth or Left Behind?”
ACORE Power Generation & Infrastructure Forum, April 2013, “Developer and Technology Perspectives”
CleanTech Future Conference, March 2013, “Looking Toward a New Energy Future- Revolutionizing the Way People Think About and Receive Energy”
Podcasts and interviews
https://www.dylan-green.com/meghan-nutting-of-sunnova/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sS--Yj5S3N8
https://www.spencer-ogden.com/blogs/empowering-female-leaders-in-solar/
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6Vj8nEBMYkBTT215lu70Uq
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cUdSpEeDQOA
https://insideenergy.org/2016/09/09/spark-unpacking-the-politics-of-energy-in-colorado/
https://canvasrebel.com/meet-meghan-nutting/
https://wrisenergy.org/2017/08/14/wrise-member-profile-meet-meghan-nutting/
Principal Engineer - Taylor Dodson, P.E.
Taylor Dodson is a seasoned leader in the power and renewable energy sector with more than two decades of experience driving complex infrastructure projects across North America and beyond. From high-voltage substations and transmission systems to utility-scale solar, battery storage, data center infrastructure, and wind power, Taylor has been at the forefront of building and connecting over 14 gigawatts of renewable energy to the grid—enough to power more than six million homes.
Currently serving as Vice President of Program Management and Operations at EPC Services Company, Taylor oversees national execution strategy for substation, data center, thermal generation, and BESS projects, managing everything from construction field operations and commissioning to quality assurance and long-term maintenance support. He also plays a key role in executive leadership development, interdepartmental collaboration, and technical mentorship across the organization.
Taylor’s career is defined by a rare blend of deep technical fluency and visionary team-building. He previously built the high-voltage EPC division at SOLV Energy, where he also strengthened O&M and testing capabilities, with a strong focus on safety culture, training frameworks, and the development of emerging leaders in the power industry.
A systems thinker and problem-solver, Taylor has contributed to and led efforts in automation of substation design, development of internal QA/QC and estimating tools, and the streamlining of SCADA, relay, and protection schemes. His background includes software development for turnkey marketing platforms, advanced project scheduling, and extensive work on retrofit and international engineering projects—including refinery and petrochemical design for clients in Russia.
More than a project executive, Taylor is a culture builder. He believes that infrastructure is ultimately a people business, and that investing in knowledge transfer, mentorship, and community-rooted engineering is the key to long-term sustainability and impact.