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2023 Innovator of the Year Award

Responsible for maintaining North American State/Provincial RPS policy data as well as compliance forecasting.Directly informed and influenced the renewable energy credit (REC) price forecast model as primary provider of key data inputs and historical benchmarking.Delivered client presentations and authored insight papers concerning various aspects of the renewable power industry and public policies in North America.Power modeling using Aurora xmp.Developed and maintained Microsoft SQL Server database to grow with needs of the North American Power Service.Developed VB-based automation tools to expedite team processes and data collection:-Conceived and invented tool that identifies discrepancies between the NAPS proprietary power plant database and the Energy Information Administration's (EIA) monthly (EPM) and annual (860) reports, streamlining the true-up exercise from days to hours.-Enhanced the power plant research analyst interface by leveraging multiple USGS cross-reference databases such that a plant's geographic, grid, and market topology could be easily identified or inferred with minimal locational data.-Increased marketability of the NAPS product by developing an automated process to generate regionally-scoped deliverables based on proprietary topology intelligence.

Built and maintained proprietary power industry database including power plant unit characteristics, historical market prices, historical demand, EPA CEMS data, state/provincial RPS policy structures, and nuclear outage.Developed web scrapers to autonomously import historical data from various ISO/RTO websites and NRC nuclear outage reports.Created a variety of Microsoft Access-based GUIs for easy retrieval and maintenance of RPS and power market structure data.Developed views and stored procedures in Microsoft SQL Server that manipulated data to conform to Aurora model input formats.