Lisa L. Carter

Lisa L. Carter is director-Innovation and Sustainabilty Technology, Dominion Energy, Inc.She is responsible for the management and direction of a team that performs technical research and evaluations on innovative technologies, such a hydrogen, data aggregation technology, automation and robotics, fuel conversion and power generation technologies, infrastructure solutions, smart communities/5G communications, transportation solutions, decarbonization technologies, and artificial intelligence and software solutions.

Carter joined Dominion Energy in 2000 as a senior energy market analyst. She was named supervisor-Finance & Business in 2001 and an environmental project manager in 2005. She was promoted to director-Environmental Regulation in 2007. She later served as director-Environmental Policy & Sustainability, director-Sustainability and Gas Environmental Services and director-FERC, Electric Market & NERC Compliance Policy and director-Corporate Public Policy. She assumed her current post in 2019.

She previously worked for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Columbia Gas Transmission Corporation, the United States Senate and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

She serves as the Past President of the Board of Directors of Keep Virginia Beautiful, a non-profit whose mission is to engage and unite Virginians to improve Virginia’s natural and scenic environment and was appointed in 2016 by the Governor to the Board of Trustees of the Virginia Museum of Natural History in Martinsville, Virginia.

Carter received her bachelor’s degree in biology and environmental studies from Bowdoin College and her master’s degree in public policy from Harvard University.