Laura Trolese has almost twenty years of experience in the energy industry and has spent the last decade on regional efforts to develop organized energy markets in the West. Ms. Trolese began her career at the Bonneville Power Administration where she spent ten years in various roles including leading BPA’s strategy development on organized markets in the West, provided leadership on regional workgroups in market design development and spent several years in BPA’s transmission policy and operations.

Ms. Trolese also spent seven years at the Public Generating Pool as their policy lead on CAISO market initiatives, including price formation, resource sufficiency/ adequacy, greenhouse gas accounting, transmission, and the development of CAISO’s extended day-ahead market.

Ms. Trolese transitioned to TEA in May 2022, where she now serves as TEA’s Director of Western Markets and Strategy and was recently elected to serve as Chair of the SPP Markets+ Participant Executive Committee.

She holds a master’s degree in business administration from Washington State University, and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from University of Portland.