Allison Archambault
Allison Archambault has 15 years’ experience helping people adopt renewable energy to improve their lives and strengthen their energy systems. As President of an international nonprofit organization, Ms. Archambault leads a team expanding electricity access in rural Haiti with smart solar-powered electricity grids. Ms. Archambault is also a co-founder and board member of a venture-backed smart grid technology company now serving utilities in 25 countries and named by Fast Company as “The Most Innovative Company in Energy” in 2021.
Ms. Archambault’s work on gender and energy has been highlighted by the United Nations FCCC as being “a real world example of what climate action looks like.” Previously, Ms. Archambault worked in clean tech in the US on grid integration planning for large scale renewables and on sales channels for residential solar+storage.
Ms. Archambault is a National Geographic Explorer, and in 2017 she received the US Department of Energy’s C3E International Award. Ms. Archambault’s TEDx talk “Electric Everything is Possible…Here’s How” bridges her work in Haiti with her home in Washington, DC and highlights some of the people who have gone solar with Solar United Neighbors.