Leia Guccione is a Principal with RMI’s electricity and industrial practices, where she specializes in microgrids, campus energy systems, industrial ecosystems, distributed generation and storage, and renewable energy procurement strategies. Additional areas of expertise include the use of collaborative processes for complex problem solving, and IT solutions for improved collaboration. Select project experience includes:

Leia leads RMI’s research on the disruptive potential of distributed solar PV deployed in concert with distributed battery energy storage. Her team produced RMI’s report The Economics of Grid Defection: When and Where Distributed Solar Generation Plus Storage Competes With Traditional Utility Service, and is currently working on a sequel report.

Leia also serves as the Manager for the eLab Ecosystem of activities. RMI’s Electricity Innovation Lab (eLab), is a unique multi-year collaboration of leading industry actors to develop, implement, and spread new solutions to enable greater adoption of economic distributed energy resources. As the Ecosystem Manager, Leia oversees the design and execution of core eLab programs and events, which include eLab Accelerator, eLab Ignite events, and the on-going collaboration between eLab members.

Leia also supports RMI’s work to facilitate and accelerate investment in, and procurement of renewable energy by large energy consumers, with a special focus on corporations as energy consumers. Leia led the renewable energy procurement analysis and strategy development for a Fortune 500 corporation with a nation-wide operational footprint.