Margaret Oloriz

Senior Director
13+ years of experience in utility strategy, regulatory compliance, and infrastructure modernization across North America
Expertise in behind-the-meter power solutions, decarbonization planning, and economic analysis
Clients include major utilities, public sector entities, and energy companies 
New York
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Margaret Oloriz is a Senior Director with Alvarez & Marsal Energy in New York. She brings over 13 years of experience helping utilities, public sector entities, and energy companies navigate complex operational, regulatory, and infrastructure challenges. A licensed Professional Engineer, Ms. Oloriz combines engineering expertise with strategic program leadership, focusing on utility operations and strategy, regulatory and policy analysis, infrastructure modernization, and emerging energy solutions.

Ms. Oloriz has partnered with major utilities and energy sector clients across North America to translate complex policy, engineering, and economic considerations into actionable programs. Her experience includes scenario modeling, business case development, life cycle cost and total cost of ownership analysis, regulatory documentation, and implementation planning. She has also led grant application and implementation efforts that helped organizations secure more than $100 million in funding for clean energy initiatives.

Notably, Ms. Oloriz led an enterprise-scale review for a major utility to assess how effectively its existing guidance documents demonstrated compliance with regulatory requirements. She developed a repeatable framework for translating complex requirements into clear, compliant operational documentation and helped the organization identify and prioritize opportunities to strengthen its compliance posture.

Ms. Oloriz also works with stakeholders across the data center and power ecosystem to improve the timelines and cost-effectiveness of behind-the-meter generation serving data centers. Her work spans smaller, site-level installations through large-scale “bring your own power” models and focuses on aligning the commercial, technical, regulatory, operational, and stakeholder requirements necessary to move projects from concept through implementation.

Prior to joining A&M, Ms. Oloriz spent eight and a half years with West Monroe, where she was a Senior Manager and subject matter expert in the Energy & Utilities practice. Earlier in her career, she worked as an engineer on large-scale urban infrastructure projects.

Ms. Oloriz earned a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Notre Dame and a master’s degree in civil engineering from Columbia University. She holds Professional Engineer licenses in New York and California.

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