Michael Peter Skelly

In 2018, Skelly joined investment bank Lazard as a senior advisor.

In February 2011, Skelly donated a kidney to his sister.

In 2009, Skelly founded Clean Line Energy Partners, a company focused on moving energy from resource areas to distant consumer markets. Clean Line is an independent developer of high voltage, long-haul transmission lines, wanting to provide transmission solutions to generators and load-serving utilities in order to interconnect all sources of energy with consumers. Founded in 2009, Clean Line Energy has yet to build any transmission infrastructure or sign a binding contract to deliver energy, and has yet to earn any revenue.

In November 2008, Skelly faced three-term incumbent John Culberson in the election for Texas' 7th district. Skelly's campaign received national attention when he raised more money than any candidate, incumbent or challenger, Democrat or Republican, running for the House of Representatives that year.

In 1999, Skelly joined Horizon Wind Energy, when it was a two-person operation, and helped it grow into a multi-billion dollar company over the next nine years. In 2005, investment bank Goldman Sachs bought Horizon, then a privately held company known as Zilkha Renewables. Goldman Sachs sold Horizon, which had grown to the third largest wind company in the United States, for $2.2 billion for a reported gain of nearly $1 billion. In 2006, the Houston Business Journal quoted Skelly as saying, "Houston is the center of energy, and as renewable energy, including wind, plays a bigger role. There is an opportunity for Houston to be involved in the growth for that segment."

Skelly has been married to Anne Whitlock since 1991. The couple has three children: two boys and a girl. Anne earned a degree in Business Finance from the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a degree in Public Policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard. Anne serves on the board of the Denver Harbor Family Clinic and works at the Harris County Healthcare Alliance.

In the 1990s, Skelly worked at Energia Global and New World Power. Both positions focused on energy projects in Latin America. Before entering the energy industry, he served as a founding partner and manager for Rain Forest Aerial Tram in Costa Rica.

Michael Peter Skelly (born October 19, 1961) is a Houston renewable energy businessman and former Democratic candidate for Texas's 7th congressional district (map) in the U.S. House of Representatives. From 1999 to 2008, he served as the chief development officer for Horizon Wind Energy, the third largest wind company in the United States. Skelly cofounded and served as president of Clean Line Energy Partners, an independent developer of high voltage direct current, long-haul transmission lines.