Jesse Hitchcock researches regulatory, policy, and program innovations that help utilities advance distributed energy resources (DERs) cost-effectively and at scale. She’s particularly focused on EV load management and performance-based ratemaking. She’s also interested in examining how these innovations can advance equity by creating benefits to all customers and society, leveraging her certification in DER benefit-cost analysis from the National Energy Screening Project.
Before joining E Source, she led client engagement and policy for EnergyX Solutions. In that role, she helped utilities across the US and Canada use technology solutions to improve their efficiency and deep retrofit programs. Jesse also implemented demand-side management, low-income, and EV programs and policies for the PEI Department of Transportation, Infrastructure and Energy. She completed a parliamentary internship in the Canadian House of Commons and holds a BS in biology from the University of Alberta and an MS in environmental science from the University of Prince Edward Island.
