Elisa Wood is an award-winning writer and editor specializing in the energy industry. She is the founder, editor, and publisher of EnergyChangemakers.com and its magazine, Decentralized Grid.
She also co-founded Microgrid Knowledge and was editor-in-chief and co-host of the publication’s popular conference series from 2014-2023.
In addition, she co-founded RealEnergyWriters.com, where for two decades she led a team of energy writers who produced content for energy companies and advocacy organizations.
She has been writing about energy for more than three decades and is published widely. Her work can be found in prominent energy business journals and mainstream publications. She has been quoted by NPR, the Wall Street Journal, and other notable media outlets.
“For an especially readable voice in the industry, the most consistent interpreter across these years has been the energy journalist Elisa Wood, whose Microgrid Knowledge (and conference) has aggregated more stories better than any other feed of its time,” wrote Malcolm McCullough, in the book, Downtime on the Microgrid, published by MIT Press in 2020.
Elisa’s specialties include distributed energy resources, electrification, grid modernization, smart grid, energy efficiency, electric transmission, competitive wholesale and retail power markets, investor-owned and public power utilities, renewable energy, energy policy and economics, and other topics related to the electric power industry.
Her work can be found on EnergyChangemakers.com, MicrogridKnowledge.com, RealEnergyWriters.com, S&P Global/Platts, Renewable Energy World, Power Engineering International, GreenBiz, Utility Dive, and many other energy sites.