Research
Chris Seiple
Vice Chairman, Energy Transition and Power & Renewables
Expertise
- Global
- Power and renewables

Chris is the Vice Chairman of Wood Mackenzie’s Power & Renewables group. He is responsible for ensuring thought leadership, advising on the strategic direction of the business, and senior stakeholder engagement and relationship management.
Chris brings 30 years of global power industry experience to this role. His career has spanned strategy consulting work for power companies and banks at Cambridge Energy Research Associates (now part of IHS/S&P), debt and equity financing of power-related investments at GE Energy Financial Service and managing a portfolio of power plants owned by EFS. He also led the power organisation at Genscape, where he expanded its real-time power markets monitoring business into analytics and software service businesses through both organic growth and acquisitions.
Chris came to Wood Mackenzie through its acquisition of Genscape and now works with our 250 researchers across North America, Europe, Asia and Latin America.
Education
Chris is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Muhlenberg College, with degrees in Russian Studies and Political Science.
He also has a MS in Energy Management and Policy from the University of Pennsylvania and the Institut Francais du Petrole (IFP).
See more from Chris
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The Edge
How gas could displace renewables in meeting surging US data centre demand
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Opinion
Uncertainty dominates the 2025 US power outlook
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The Edge
Five themes shaping the energy world in 2025
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Opinion
Gridlock: Q&A on how the US power industry can cope with bumper demand
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Opinion
AI and data centres will transform US power market dynamics
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Opinion
What a severe downside US post-election scenario could be for renewables