Senior Advisor
Miranda Ballentine is devoted to accelerating clean energy for national security, economic prosperity, and solving climate change. She loves to build culture, teams, and people, as both an intrapreneur and entrepreneur. Miranda was named to the inaugural TIME100 CLIMATE list, honoring the 100 most influential climate leaders in business, and she has a history of successfully launching and overseeing clean energy and ESG strategies at executive levels in corporate, association, non-profit, and government sectors.
Most recently Miranda was the founding CEO of the Clean Energy Buyers Alliance, where she spent a decade co-creating a community of corporate energy customers to accelerate their influence in grid decarbonization. She stepped down as CEBA’s CEO in September 2023, after six years of guiding CEBA to be the premier voice of energy customer companies. The CEBA member community has led the clean energy industry with the addition of over 71 gigawatts (GW) of wind, solar, and storage capacity in the United States. She built the organization from the ground up, growing the team from 6 to 50 staff, increasing revenue six-fold from $2.4M to $17M, doubling membership, and establishing 27 philanthropic relationships with the nation’s top climate philanthropies.
Before being an entrepreneur, Miranda was an intrapreneur with the Nation’s two largest energy customers.
In 2014, Miranda was appointed by President Obama and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the 4th Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Installations, Environment, & Energy). She was responsible for a $9 billion energy budget (including $7.5B in aviation fuel and $1.5B in electricity), as well as environmental programs for 9 million acres of land, 200 miles of coastline, 600,000 acres of forests, and 270,000 acres of wetlands. She also launched the Resilient Energy Demonstration Initiative, which developed cyber-secure microgrids.
Previously, Miranda was Director of Sustainability for Global Renewable Energy at Walmart, where she led a team in 15 countries toward Walmart’s goal to be supplied by 100% renewable energy, identifying $1+ billion in potential annual energy savings and 9 MMT of avoided GHG potential.
Her private-sector and non-profit career also included roles as CEO of Constant Power, Inc., a Toronto-based developer and operator of distributed energy resources, Managing Director of Rocky Mountain Institute’s Business Renewables Center, and Vice President at David Gardiner & Associates.
She currently serves as co-chair of the Aspen Energy Policy Forum, the nation’s premier energy dialogue since 1977; on the Strategic Advisory Committee for Idaho National Lab’s Energy, Environment, Science, and Technology directorate; and on the Advisory Boards of Greenbelt Capital Partners, the Electric Infrastructure Security Council, and the Center for Climate and Energy Security. She has previously served as board member or advisor to the Clean Energy Buyers Association and Institute, the National Wildlife Federation, the U.S. Air Force Nuclear Oversight Board, and Constant Power, Inc.
In 2013, Miranda was selected to join the World Economic Forum’s Young Global Leaders, and in 2020 she was named Woman of the Year by the Women’s Council on Environment and Energy. In 2016, Miranda was honored with the Air Force’s highest civilian award, the Decoration for Exceptional Civilian Service to the United States Air Force, as well as the Decoration for Distinguished Civilian Service to the United States Army.
She holds a BS degree, magna cum laude, from Colorado State University and an MBA from George Washington University specializing in energy and environmental management and international business. In 2020, Miranda was honored to provide the keynote commencement speech to her alma mater, the GW School of Business.
Miranda lives near Washington, DC with her husband and their three daughters.
