Jennifer Runyon

Jennifer Runyon has been studying and reporting about the world’s transition to clean energy since 2007. As editor of the world’s largest renewable energy publication, Renewable Energy World, she observed, interviewed experts about, and reported on major clean energy milestones including Germany’s explosive growth of solar PV, the formation and development of the U.S. onshore wind industry, the U.K. offshore wind boom, China’s solar manufacturing dominance, the rise of energy storage, the changing landscape for utilities and grid operators and much, much, more.

Today, in addition to managing content on Renewable Energy World, POWERGRID and Electric Light and Power, she also serves as the conference advisory committee chair for DistribuTECH, a globally recognized conference and expo for the transmission and distribution industry. In her role, she works in close cooperation with a large team of committed industry executives to shape the educational content for the event.

She also helps assemble the renewable energy content for POWER-GEN and helped launch the first Grid-Scale Storage Summit, a co-located event at HydroVision International.

She is also Co-chair of the Women in Power Committee.

Formerly, she was the managing editor of Innovate Forum, an online publication that focused on innovation in manufacturing. Prior to that she was the managing editor at Desktop Engineering magazine. In 2008, she won an "Eddy Award" for her editing work on an article about solar trees in Vienna. In 2010, RenewableEnergyWorld.com was awarded an American Business Media Neal Award for its eNewsletters, which were created under her direction. She holds a Master's Degree in English Education from Boston University and a BA in English from the University of Virginia.