Jennifer manages Utah Clean Energy’s work to promote and expand distributed energy resources, including residential and commercial solar and batteries, efficiency and demand response programs, and aggregation of these resources into virtual power plants. This work spans the advocacy, regulatory and policy arenas with an occasional solar pilot project to demonstrate the possibilities of and pathways to using these technologies. As technologies and power electronics advance, the opportunities for distributed resources to provide impactful value to the electricity system, as well as individuals, is more and more of a reality. At Utah Clean Energy, Jennifer is working to find the most impactful combination of technologies and programs to open up the potential of these resources within our local environment. Additionally, Jennifer is constantly looking to reduce barriers to adoption of distributed resources, such as burdensome and expensive permitting, interconnection processes, and misleading messaging.
Jennifer previously worked as a regional air quality modeler in the Great Lakes region and for the State of Utah, followed by a faculty position at Westminster College where she taught geology, environmental science and climate science courses.
Jennifer has a Bachelor’s Degree in Physics from Amherst College and a Master’s Degree in Geophysics from the University of Washington. She has been passionate about understanding the science of and solutions to our changing climate from her undergraduate days. The opportunity to work for Utah Clean Energy, striving every day to decarbonize Utah is an honor and a pleasure.
Jennifer is in her happy place when she is in the mountains – hiking, running, skiing, biking – with family, friends, and her dog, Kiska. She also enjoys a good crafting afternoon sewing, painting, or knitting when weather keeps her inside.
We would like to clarify that Utah Clean Energy is not a solar company. We are a nonprofit organization that advocates for solar and other clean energy technologies, but we do not install or sell solar in any way.