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Jesse Jenkins is a macro-scale energy systems engineer with a focus on the rapidly evolving electricity sector, including the transition to zero-carbon resources, the proliferation of distributed energy resources, and the role of electricity in economy-wide decarbonization. He leads the Princeton ZERO Lab – the Zero carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory — which focuses on improving and applying optimization-based energy systems models to evaluate low-carbon energy technologies and generate insights to guide policy and planning decisions in national and sub-national jurisdictions transitioning to net-zero emissions energy systems. He is also affiliated faculty of the Center for Policy Research in Energy and Environment at the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs and associated faculty of the High Meadows Environmental Institute.

Jenkins earned a PhD and SM from MIT, worked previously as a postdoctoral fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School and as a research fellow at Argonne National Laboratory, and spent six years as an energy and climate policy analyst prior to embarking on his academic career. He is a co-PI of the Princeton Net-Zero America study and a member of the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine “Committee on Accelerating Decarbonization in the United States.” He consults regularly on policy design and technical analysis for national environmental organizations and provides actionable insights for companies developing novel clean energy technologies.

Follow Jesse on Twitter @JesseJenkins, download his CV at http://bit.ly/JDJ_CV and view publications at http://bit.ly/ScholarJenkins