Kelly Speakes-Backman

CEO, Energy Storage Association

Kelly Speakes-Backman is the first CEO of the Energy  Storage Association. Kelly has spent over 20 years  working in energy and environmental issues in the public,  NGO and private sectors, including United Technologies,  SunEdison and Alliance to Save Energy. She is a former  Commissioner of the Maryland Public Service  Commission where she also served as Chair of the Board  of Directors of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative,  co-vice chair of the NARUC Committee on Energy  Resources and the Environment, and member of the EPRI  Energy Efficiency & Grid Modernization Public Advisory  Group.. She has been quoted in Bloomberg,  

MarketWatch, CNBC and NPR’s Marketplace, and has contributed to numerous opinion  editorials in industry trades. She currently serves on several boards and advisory  committees related to energy. In 2019, she was honored by The Cleanie Awards® as  Woman of the Year and was nominated in 2020 to serve as a C3E Ambassador.