Jerry Jackson, President, Jackson Associates and Leader, Smart Grid Research Consortium
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Jerry Jackson is a Ph.D economist, president of Jackson Associates.
and leader of the Smart Grid Research Consortium.
Jackson Associates is the developer of the MAISY Residential and Commercial Energy Use and Hourly Loads Databases, the MAISY RECS databases, Scope 3 Financed Databases, the Smart Grid Research Associates Grid Impact Models and MAISY CEDMS and REDMS Utility Forecasting Models. Jackson Associates clients include with more than 150 private company, utilities, state and federal agency clients. See Client List JA has developed model and analysis software and energy use databases for utilities, state and federal agencies and private companies to analyze and forecast future energy use, peak demand, impacts of DSM and DR programs, smart grid technology program impacts, ESCO potentials, ew technology market potential and penetration and other issues. Dr. Jackson is an expert on new energy technologies and their diffusion in the market. He has assisted leading US, Asian and European technology companies in analyzing and evaluating new technology markets, new product design, and market strategy development. His technology clients include companies such as United Technologies, Sharp Laboratories, Ingersoll Rand, Toyota, Aisin, Bloom Energy, Ice Energy, Emera Technologies and others. He led a consortium of eighteen electric utilities to assess smart grid technology analysis providing business case analysis for each utility to support smart grid investment strategies. He has provided expert witness testimony for more than two dozen US utility public service commissions and for the provincial electric utility regulatory agency in New Brunswick. He has also presented energy analysis at European Commission conferences, United Nations Energy Expert Working Group Meetings and served on review boards for the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Science Foundation Arizona and the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation. He has served as a consultant to the California Energy Commission, the Electric Power Research Institute, Washington State University, Colorado School of Mines, the Solar Energy Research Institute, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the states of Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas and several dozen utilities. At the US Department of Energy's (DOE) request, he conducted a series of focus group sessions to help guide future DOE data collection and database development. He has served as a consultant to DOE on various database and data development issues. He has also provided energy efficiency analysis to support DOE efficiency standards. He has served in advisory roles to energy regulators and policy makers in the states of California, Indiana, New York, Texas, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Washington, to the US Department of Energy and its national laboratories, and ministries in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and New Brunswick. He has been both an active participant and an advisor and reviewer for the Department of Energy's appliance efficiency program. Dr. Jackson received a patent for the MAISY visual drill-down and data visualization process (US Patent 5,894,311, Computer-Based Visual Data Evaluation) that has been licensed to nearly every major business intelligence software company including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, SAS, and others. Previous positions include Signature Professor at Texas A&M University, Chief of the Applied Research Division at Georgia Tech Research Institute, Economist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago. He is widely published in both academic and industry publications and in more than two hundred technical reports for clients. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Florida with specialties in econometrics and regional economics. He has taught University-level courses in economics, business strategy, mathematics, statistics, project management and energy risk analysis. |