Strategen Hires Former Hawaii Regulator Jennifer Potter as Director, Regulatory Innovation
Potter brings a various ability set and deep expertise in regulatory decision-making, broadening and deepening Strategen’s built-in advisory and market design options choices
SACRAMENTO, Calif., Nov. 3, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Strategen Consulting, Inc. is happy to announce the rent of former Hawaii Public Utilities Fee Commissioner Jennifer Potter as a Director.
Potter makes a speciality of vitality coverage and regulation, demand response, rising applied sciences, superior fee design, and utility innovation. In her function as Commissioner, Potter helped Hawaii, a world chief in buyer adoption of distributed vitality sources (DER), navigate towards a decarbonized vitality future and labored to make sure that Hawaii’s clear vitality initiatives, which included reaching the nation’s first-ever one hundred pc renewable portfolio requirements by the 12 months 2045, remained on monitor.
“I’m thrilled to be becoming a member of Strategen to assist the development and acceleration of the clear vitality revolution,” Potter stated. “The agency has a really compelling document of accomplishment of thought management and growing profitable methods to remodel the longer term with clear vitality. I am excited to lend my efforts to supply and implement high-quality options and ship significant impacts.”
Strategen brings a singular method to vitality sector transformation, and companions with authorities, utility, and non-governmental group purchasers throughout service choices that span coverage and regulatory innovation, rising expertise market improvement, vitality system planning, and multi-stakeholder engagement. Potter will convey her expertise in superior performance-based regulation, demand-side flexibility, DER integration, and energy system transformation to states throughout the nation.
“Jennie has been on the forefront of the clear vitality transition. Her ardour and management mirror Strategen’s mission and values,” Managing Director Matthew McDonnell stated. “As our group continues to develop, we’re thrilled for Jennie to share her experience throughout a spread of vitality transition methods to assist our purchasers obtain their strategic targets and coverage targets.”
Earlier than being appointed to the Fee in March 2018, Potter was a college member on the Hawaii Pure Power Institute (HNEI), an impartial analysis institute throughout the College of Hawaii, the place she performed analysis on demand response, DER applied sciences, the locational advantages of DERs, and vitality effectivity. Previous to becoming a member of HNEI, Jennifer was a Senior Scientific Engineering Affiliate at Lawrence Berkeley Nationwide Laboratory. Potter holds a Grasp of Science in Public Coverage and Administration from Carnegie Mellon College, and a Bachelor of Arts in Worldwide Research and Economics from Southern Oregon College.
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Strategen advises and empowers main organizations — utilities, authorities businesses, NGOs, and business purchasers — to design revolutionary, sensible options that seize the promise of a clear vitality future, strengthen resilience and flexibility, and are equitable, collaborative, and impactful. Headquartered in Northern California, and with workplaces throughout the Western U.S. and in Australia, Strategen’s mission-driven consultants leverage a world perspective and market-leading capabilities to ship novel, high-impact, stakeholder-aligned approaches throughout the coverage, regulatory, and market design spheres that sustainably speed up the deployment of low-carbon vitality methods.
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