Emmy Riley

As Energy Engineer Team Leader & Account Manager, Emmy oversees energyPLAN and airPLAN accounts to ensure that the monitoring of building data and implementation of cost-saving initiatives are on target to meet or exceed building performance expectations. In her previous role as an Energy Engineer at Cyclone, she provided analytical and consulting services for clients in the development of high-performance buildings, through retro-commissioning projects and performing technical analyses for energyPLAN clients.

Prior to joining the Cyclone team, Emmy was a Building Energy Coordinator at SEDAC, an applied research program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Over the course of five years there, she managed energy assessment, retro-commissioning, and new construction design assistance projects, primarily for public sector buildings.

Before SEDAC, she worked as a Process Improvement & Implementation Consultant at Crowe Horwath, LLP.

A native of Pittsfield, Illinois, Emmy graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science in General Engineering. She also earned a Master of Energy Engineering from the University of Illinois Chicago.

She has been recognized as a Certified Energy Manager™ by the Association of Energy Engineers since 2013, and as an ASHRAE Building Energy Assessment Professional since 2016. In 2018, one of her projects was ComEd’s RCxpress Project of the Year, for achieving the most energy savings of any retro-commissioning project in its category.