Christy Cannon
CWEEL | Mentorship Program Chair
Yardi Systems | Solutions Consultant
Christy Cannon has spent 25 years in the energy industry, creating order where there was none. Working through the start of Texas electric deregulation in 2002 and years of Retail Subcommittee meetings at ERCOT, she educated 120+ cities around Texas on the new retail market. As their consultant, she built databases modeling all the rate schedules in ERCOT with various scenarios, creating intelligent reporting that helped them make informed decisions. She evaluated the technical capabilities of potential Retail Electric Providers for aggregation group RFPs covering electric supply contracts of over 250 MWs and 1.3 million MWhs annually. She held classes for municipal employees, presented to electric aggregation group Board meetings, and met with city Mayors, Finance Directors, and City Managers on the importance of managing demand ratchets, power factor, and how to make sense of this new electric market.
The next challenge was building a corporate energy management program from the ground up. She pulled together a team of engineers, energy managers, and analysts to launch a wide-reaching program that not only prescribed sustainability practices for the company, but created sustainability services for customers as well. ASHRAE Level 2 audits, resident energy awareness programs, normalized utility budgeting, rate and tariff auditing, and KPI rankings against industry benchmarks were some of the services on the menu.
Currently at Yardi Systems, she is a Solutions Consultant on the Energy Automation engineering team. In this role she wears many hats including sales, business development, and product management. In her current capacity she focuses on real time metering, data acquisition, and alerting tools for all kinds of building systems. She advises clients on energy needs including real time interval data, submetering, automated meter reading systems, HVAC fault detection, demand management, and building performance standards. Her favorite hat to wear, however, is new product development. Collaborating with many teams across multiple departments to create a new service that fulfills a critical client need is the most challenging and satisfying.
She’s been a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) for 15 years with a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics and two years postgraduate study in Civil Engineering. She is a member of the Advisory Board for the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE), formerly on the Council on Women in Energy & Environmental Leadership (CWEEL) mentorship committee, and now CWEEL Mentorship Chair, serving on the CWEEL Board.