Molly Aeck
Georgia Power Company
Company. In this role she is responsible for the development and delivery of innovative energy solutions that advance customer sustainability, resiliency, and affordability goals. She oversees customer products and programs across renewable energy, electric transportation, and other onsite energy technology including lighting, energy efficiency and backup power.
The comprehensive offerings her team delivers span from energy benchmarking and solution impact analysis to the flexible financing, construction management and ongoing maintenance of those solutions. In addition, Molly leads Georgia Power’s business development organization working with large non-residential customers on new electric service and the construction of distributed infrastructure solutions.
Molly most recently served as director of New Ventures at Southern Company focusing on strategic investing, emerging technology, and business model innovation. She was instrumental to the creation of Energy Impact Partners, the $3B venture capital fund in which Southern Company is founding partner. Molly also worked closely with Southern’s microgrid subsidiary PowerSecure and supported Southern Company’s operating companies in the origination and development of new business opportunities.
She is a Fulbright Scholar with an undergraduate degree from Stanford University and a master’s in business administration from Columbia University. In 2004, Molly received a Sustainable Energy Fellowship from Stanford to lead renewable energy research and consulting for the Worldwatch Institute. She spent the next decade working in clean energy project development and climate tech investing including at EcoSecurities, a carbon finance startup that was acquired by JPMorgan, and Allotrope Partners, a Bay Area private equity firm invested internationally in clean energy and climate technologies and projects.
In her free time, Molly enjoys metalsmithing, traveling and outdoor adventuring. She resides in Atlanta with her husband, son and daughter.