Our Team

Christa Shute
General Manager

A dedicated fitness and outdoor enthusiast, Christa's passion for life is evident whether she’s biking up a mountain, riding the back roads of Vermont or teaching a spinning class at her local health club. With all the energy she pours into these activities, Christa still takes time to appreciate the quieter, simple things that Mother Nature offers: the beauty of a leaf, the wonder of a snowflake or the tracks of an animal. It’s these simple things that she believes are the keys to happiness. It should come as no surprise then that she is working at a company that uses one of Mother Nature’s gifts—the wind—to help others power their homes and protect the environment.

Christa first learned about wind energy while in high school reading Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Although Don Quixote was battling windmills because he thought they were giants, Christa saw great opportunity to harness an immense energy source. It was only a matter of making it accessible to all. With wind energy now a mainstream energy source, that day has certainly come.

Completely at home in an entrepreneurial setting, this native Vermonter brings Earth Turbines more than a decade of small business ownership and executive management experience developing technology and products for the major appliance industry. She holds an approved patent related to electronic gas cooking controls. Christa has served on the Board of Directors for InventVermont, a non-profit that promotes and assists individual inventors and entrepreneurs around the state.

As general manager for Earth Turbines, Christa is not venturing into unfamiliar territory. She’s merely putting her entrepreneurial skills, energy and experience to developing the next major appliance: the home wind turbine.