Colleen Lueken

Colleen Lueken has more than a decade of experience at the intersection of electricity markets, emerging grid technologies, and policy. At Lightshift, she leads the analytics team, which provides quantitative support for strategic direction, project development, commercialization, and operations.

Previously, Colleen served as Director of Market Development at AES Next, where she advanced the use of storage and grid enhancing technologies to unlock grid capacity. She spent nearly a decade at Fluence (formerly AES Energy Storage), where she held leadership roles in strategy, data science, and market analytics. Colleen served two terms as a Governor-appointed member of the Virginia Solar Energy Development and Energy Storage Authority and taught as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University. She holds a PhD in Engineering and Public Policy from Carnegie Mellon University, a Master’s in Engineering and Public Policy from the University of Maryland and an SB in Aerospace Engineering from MIT.