Melissa Elkinton

Melissa Elkinton

Vice President of Development

Melissa joined Belltown in 2023 and brings more than 15 years of experience in renewables to her role leading Belltown’s wind development activities. Before joining Belltown, she led resource assessment & energy modeling, development and construction engineering, and GIS at Avangrid Renewables, and prior to that, she led solar and wind energy assessments at DNV, supporting project-financing of more than 16 GW of installed wind capacity.

In 2016, Melissa was honored with the AWEA Technical Achievement Award. She has an MS and BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and Boise State University, respectively.