Molly Bales

Molly Bales

Director of Origination, Wood Clean Energy; Lecturer, UT Austin

Molly Bales is a Lecturer at UT Austin, where she teaches energy entrepreneurship on behalf of Texas Venture Labs and the UT Energy Institute. She is also Wood Clean Energy's Director of Origination, leading strategic consulting and advisory services for project conceptualization and development. She has over 14 years of experience in energy project development, enterprise sales, and entrepreneurship. In her career, she has helped scale multiple high-growth cleantech startups and developed hundreds of megawatts of utility-scale assets in multiple ISO territories. She holds an MBA from MIT and a BA from Harvard University.