Professional Experience
Holly Lahd is Managing Director, Powered Land, for CBRE Energy, where she leads a team advising data center developers, real estate owners, and other key stakeholders on navigating the complexities of utility interconnections, grid capacity constraints, and evolving regulatory frameworks. Under her leadership, the team specializes in managing large load energy strategies that reduce costs and mitigate risk for clients facing unprecedented power demands in an increasingly constrained grid environment.
With over a decade in corporate energy strategy and utility markets, Holly brings deep expertise from energy roles at Meta, where she negotiated data center interconnection agreements and energy supply strategies, and Target Corporation, where she managed energy procurement across a national portfolio. Her background spans site energy assessment, utility rate analysis, distributed energy resource evaluation, and regulatory policy. Holly has provided expert witness testimony before Public Utility Commissions and maintains comprehensive knowledge of utility business models, rate design, and energy market structures. This technical depth allows her to identify opportunities that deliver cost savings while protecting clients from capacity constraints and unfavorable utility terms.
Before joining the private sector, Holly served as Public Utilities Rate Analyst at the Minnesota Department of Commerce, where she developed foundational expertise in utility rate analysis, resource planning, and regulatory compliance.
Her unique perspective, spanning corporate energy strategy and utility regulation, positions her to structure solutions that navigate complex regulatory environments while advancing CBRE Energy clients' operational and financial objectives.
With over a decade in corporate energy strategy and utility markets, Holly brings deep expertise from energy roles at Meta, where she negotiated data center interconnection agreements and energy supply strategies, and Target Corporation, where she managed energy procurement across a national portfolio. Her background spans site energy assessment, utility rate analysis, distributed energy resource evaluation, and regulatory policy. Holly has provided expert witness testimony before Public Utility Commissions and maintains comprehensive knowledge of utility business models, rate design, and energy market structures. This technical depth allows her to identify opportunities that deliver cost savings while protecting clients from capacity constraints and unfavorable utility terms.
Before joining the private sector, Holly served as Public Utilities Rate Analyst at the Minnesota Department of Commerce, where she developed foundational expertise in utility rate analysis, resource planning, and regulatory compliance.
Her unique perspective, spanning corporate energy strategy and utility regulation, positions her to structure solutions that navigate complex regulatory environments while advancing CBRE Energy clients' operational and financial objectives.