Lauren is Director of Corporate Development at Longroad Energy. Longroad is a renewable energy company with a portfolio of ~3.7 GWs of operating wind, solar, and energy storage projects. Longroad has developed or acquired 5.6 GW of renewable energy projects across the United States and has raised $15.2 billion of equity, debt, and tax equity to support completion of its portfolio. In her role at Longroad, Lauren sources opportunities to expand Longroad’s pipeline, leads diligence on the assets, and negotiates project acquisition and development service agreements. Prior to joining Longroad in 2021, Lauren worked at Meta for 5 years, doing energy management and procurement for their data center portfolio, and prior to that Lauren worked in Project Finance and M&A at SunEdison. Lauren received her B.S.E in Chemical and Biological Engineering from Princeton University with a concentration in Environmental Studies and Sustainable Energy.