Ruchi has more than 20 years of experience in energy efficiency, renewable energy, environmental research, and project management. Ruchi Singhal served as the Utility Energy Services Projects (UESC) Senior Program Manager at Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), where she was responsible for engaging and presenting beneficial resources to TVA’s federal customers, including Redstone Arsenal, NASA Marshall, and FBI.  Currently, she is in a new role where she is focused on the new Federal Funding opportunities that are available to Businesses, Industries, and Local Government entities in the Valley.  She will look to develop innovative ways for these entities to utilize available funding along with TVA services to increase the adoption of energy efficiency projects.

Through forward-thinking leadership, she founded and served as Executive Director for one of the first energy-focused nonprofit organizations in Alabama, Nexus Energy Center from 2010-2017.  She currently serves on the Board of Director Nexus Energy Center, which continues to provide resources to our North Alabama community through grants to help the underserved homeowners needing energy efficiency improvements.  Nexus Energy Center partners closely with Enable (formerly CASA), Habitat for Humanity and Alabama Foster Adoptive Parent Association.

In addition to serving on the Nexus Energy Center Board of Directors, Ruchi serves on the Huntsville Botanical Garden Board, Committee of 100, and is a past director in the International Women’s Forum of Alabama.  She was honored to win the Energy Manager of the Year from the Association of Energy Engineers (AEE) in 2014 and has been certified by AEE as a Certified Energy Manager (CEM) and Building Energy Professional (BEP).

Ruchi has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Georgia Tech and an M.S. in Chemical Engineering with thesis from N.C. State University.  She and her husband Sameer have two beautiful children: Akash (16) and Sonia (11).  As a family they enjoy going to concerts, traveling around the US, camping and playing lots of board games.

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