--- title: Mary Powell: The 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders of 2026 description: Find out why Mary Powell is on TIME's 2026 list of the 100 most influential leaders driving business climate action. canonical: https://time.com/collection/time100-climate/2026/mary-powell/ article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2026-11-09T13:00:55.083Z article:modified_time: 2026-11-09T13:00:55.228Z article:section: Collection Item og:title: Mary Powell: The 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders of 2026 og:description: Find out why Mary Powell is on TIME's 2026 list of the 100 most influential leaders driving business climate action. og:url: https://time.com/collection/time100-climate/2026/mary-powell/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte55c33f7ac78b22b/6aece49be47c1e22c5c2eb62/261123_T100CLIM_T_Powell.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Mary Powell: The 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders of 2026 og:type: article twitter:card: summary twitter:title: Mary Powell: The 100 Most Influential Climate Leaders of 2026 twitter:description: Find out why Mary Powell is on TIME's 2026 list of the 100 most influential leaders driving business climate action. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blte55c33f7ac78b22b/6aece49be47c1e22c5c2eb62/261123_T100CLIM_T_Powell.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 --- Nov 09, 2026 # Mary Powell > Sponsored content. 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Terms and conditions apply. * Savings buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Savings Account. * No ATM fees from Ally Bank at Allpoint and Moneypass ATMs plus we reimburse for fees charged by other ATM owners nationwide up to $10 per statement cycle. * Early direct deposit offers eligible direct deposits up to two days sooner. * Spending buckets are a feature of Ally Bank's Spending Account. CEO, Sunrun by Mary Powell  Wyatt Semanek Mary Powell is CEO of Sunrun, which has grown from a residential solar provider in the U.S. into a major operator of home batteries that can send power back to the grid when it is most needed. These distributed resources can add flexibility and capacity without relying solely on large, centralized power plants. This October, batteries from Sunrun delivered record power to California’s grid during a heat wave, supporting the system through peak demand and helping prove the argument that batteries already installed in homes can provide grid-scale power. Under Powell’s leadership, Sunrun is helping households participate in the energy transition. _—Justin Worland_ **What is the single most important action you think the public, or a specific company or government, needs to take in the next year to advance the climate agenda?** We’re seeing headlines about AI data centers extending the life of polluting coal and gas plants or bringing retired plants back online. That’s not the direction we should be going. We need to stop treating fossil fuels as the default response to rising electricity demand. That response is a step backward. We have clean energy capacity ready to help meet demand today, including home solar and battery systems already connected to the grid. Utilities and regulators need to find ways to put those resources to work, rather than assuming the answer is always to build more centralized infrastructure or keep polluting power plants online. At the federal level, permitting reform is equally urgent. Cleaner energy resources are ready to be built, but they are stuck in queues that can stretch a decade. Streamlining that process would allow clean energy to come online at the speed the climate demands. We have the technology, and we have the resources. We now need policies that allow us to move faster. **What is a climate solution that isn't getting the attention or funding it deserves?** We spend a lot of time talking about large, utility-scale power plants, but we’re overlooking the enormous role households can play in meeting our energy needs. A home with solar and a battery can do more than help a family manage its energy costs and keep the lights on during an outage. Connected with thousands of other homes, it can become part of a distributed power plant that provides stored clean energy to the grid when it’s needed. That matters as electricity demand from AI rapidly grows. We need to recognize that there is a tool to help fight climate change in plain sight. We need to invest in that opportunity. The energy transition isn’t something that happens only at large power plants. It can happen on rooftops, in garages and in communities across the country. Homeowners can be active participants in building a more resilient, affordable and cleaner energy system. **What gives you hope about the future of the planet?** I believe Americans are thoughtful about the choices they make and the kind of future they want for their families. More and more, people are connecting everyday decisions—how they power their homes, what they buy and which companies they support—to the world they want to leave behind. I see that especially in the way homeowners are thinking about energy. For a long time, most of us simply used electricity and paid the bill. We had very little say in where it came from or how the system worked. That’s changing. People are choosing to generate and store their own power, and increasingly, to share energy with the grid when it’s needed. They’re moving from being passive energy consumers to active participants in the system. When I think about millions of homes doing that together, I see a tremendous opportunity, not just to make our energy system more resilient, but to give people a meaningful role in the climate solution. 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