Energy Markets and Regulatory Consultant, McAdams Energy Group
Tiffany Wu is an energy markets and regulatory consultant at McAdams Energy Group. From 2022 to 2023, she advised former Commissioner Will McAdams at the Public Utility Commission of Texas through the Department of Energy Solar Energy Innovation Fellowship. During her fellowship, she helped establish the Aggregate Distributed Energy Resources (ADER) Task Force and pilot program and helped shape policies on DER operations, resiliency, and reliability. Most recently, she was a Senior Project Manager at TEPRI, leading virtual power plant (VPP) development for multi-family housing and community resilience hubs in low to moderate income communities. Tiffany also spent a decade with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. Notable projects include commissioning the world’s first fully integrated carbon capture process from stack to storage at Southern Company’s Plant Barry Generating Station (2011) and designing the world’s largest post-combustion capture project at
NRG’s W. A. Parish Plant (2013).
Tiffany holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering, a Master of Public Affairs, and an M.S. in Energy and Earth Resources from The University of Texas at Austin. As part of her master’s research, she analyzed resiliency considerations made by key decisionmakers during the deregulation of ERCOT’s market and published papers quantifying environmental externalities and generation resource diversity as part of the Energy Institute’s Full Cost of Electricity initiative.