Emmy Riley

As an Energy Engineer, Emmy provides analytical and consulting services for clients in the development of high performance buildings. She works primarily with existing buildings, leading retro-commissioning projects and energy audits, as well as performing technical analyses for energyPLAN clients.

Prior to joining the Cyclone team, Emmy was a Building Energy Coordinator at SEDAC, an applied research program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Over the course of five years there, she managed energy assessment, retro-commissioning, and new construction design assistance projects, primarily for public sector buildings.

Prior to SEDAC, she worked as a Process Improvement & Implementation Consultant at Crowe Horwath, LLP.

A native of Pittsfield, Illinois, Emmy graduated from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with a Bachelor of Science in General Engineering. She also earned a Master of Energy Engineering from the University of Illinois Chicago.

She has been recognized as a Certified Energy Manager™ by the Association of Energy Engineers since 2013, and as an ASHRAE Building Energy Assessment Professional since 2016. In 2018, one of her projects was ComEd’s RCxpress Project of the Year, for achieving the most energy savings of any retro-commissioning project in its category.