April Christensen brings significant leadership experience in utility-scale renewable energy project development, with demonstrated success delivering complex, large-scale projects across the United States.

She currently serves as Senior Director of Project Development at Clearway Energy Group, where she leads a team responsible for delivering a significant portion of the company’s 30-gigawatt pipeline of energy assets, spanning wind, solar, and battery projects across multiple regions. Christensen previously led development of the 1.3-gigawatt Samson Solar Energy Project at Invenergy, one of the largest solar projects in the United States, and brings a career-long focus on advancing clean energy solutions through complex, multi-stakeholder development efforts. Christensen has been an active and dedicated member of the WRISE community for almost a decade since being named a Rudd Mayer Fellow in 2016. Serving on the WRISE Leadership Forum planning committee for six years, including the last two as Co-Chair, she continues to help shape one of the clean energy industry’s most impactful leadership gatherings.

She holds a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University, as well as undergraduate degrees in Piano Performance and Biology from Hastings College.