Sydney Williams

Sydney is an Associate on Carbon-Free Electricity team, where she helps develops power system and financial models to support global coal transition efforts and address the impacts of growing data center electricity demand.

Background

Before joining RMI, Sydney earned a master’s degree in Environmental Management with concentrations in Energy and Data Analytics & Modelling at Duke University. As part of her graduate studies, she partnered with RMI’s Islands program to conduct a feasibility study on microgrids and battery energy storage systems for critical facilities in Barbados. She also interned with RMI’s Climate Finance Access Network (CFAN), where she analyzed RMI’s climate finance work across the Pacific to support the organization’s annual report and contributed thought leadership on the New Quantified Collective Goal (NCQG). Sydney holds a bachelor’s degree in Sustainable Development from Columbia University. Following her undergraduate studies, she served as a Conservation Fellow at the Open Space Institute, where she focused on embedding equity into the organization’s internal and external strategies, programs, and projects.

Education

B.A., Sustainable Development, Columbia University
M.E.M., Environmental Management, Duke University