Fengrong Li, CFA

Fengrong Li, CFA, CIRA, is a member of FTI Consulting’s Power, Renewables & Energy Transition (“PRET”) practice. She brings over 20 years of experience in energy and infrastructure, specializing in sustainability, market entry, strategy, resource planning and investment analysis across the energy value chain.

Ms. Li’s work addresses grid challenges, deep decarbonization, increasing supply and demand variability, and the need to enhance reliability and resiliency. She advises clients on strategies and concrete portfolio positions to achieve 247 clean power, carbon-neutral, or carbon negative goals. She has provided expert analysis for restructuring and bankruptcy, before arbitrators, regulators, commissions, boards, councils, investment committee and stakeholders.

Ms. Li’s experience encompasses a wide range of segments, such as upstream, LNG terminals, pipelines, carbon capture utilization and storage (“CCUS”), wholesale power markets, renewables, utility-scale storage and microgrids. She has advised infrastructure funds, financial institutions, utilities, independent power producers, oil and gas majors, technology companies, and asset developers on resource economics, market fundamentals, business planning, tax credit flip structures, asset optimization and capital market transactions.

Ms. Li has led several of the earliest microgrid projects in the U.S. to improve resiliency and sustainability. She led many power market nodal and zonal modeling projects to quantify revenue opportunities and curtailment risks. She advised utilities to integrate demand-side resources including distributed energy resources, demand response, energy efficiency, electric vehicles, supply-side resources including renewables, storage, small modular reactors, geothermal, CCUS and hydrogen resources, and natural gas reduction pathways.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Ms. Li had a 13-year career at Siemens Industry, Inc., where she specialized in utility strategy and infrastructure. Prior to Siemens, she was chief of the Merchandise Division at Mitsui Co., Ltd., where she successfully developed international businesses in Asia, Europe and America.

Ms. Li is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a Certified Insolvency & Restructuring Advisor. She graduated cum laude with an MBA in finance from University of Notre Dame with the Provost Award.