Jes Rivas Email & Phone Number

Jes Rivas is a building systems engineer with over 17 years of experience in technology assessment, market characterization, development, and evaluation. Her expertise spans a wide range of both utility and customer side of the meter technologies, with a focus on emerging technology, electrification, demand response, distributed energy resources, grid edge, and the internet of things. A trusted advisor and thought partner, Jes works with clients to create strategies to prepare for shifts in policy, goals, opportunities, and funding, including diversifying pipelines and portfolios to create redundancy, expand impacts, and deepen relationships with and service to communities. She has authored numerous papers and presented at conferences sharing insights into holistic and innovative approaches to R&D, market shaping, and the holy grail – achieving market adoption at scale. Jes is an Executive Vice President at ILLUME Advising, where she leads the development of the company’s business strategy and innovation in industry. She earned her bachelor's degree in physics from Colorado College and her M.S. in civil engineering from the University of Colorado-Boulder.

Listed skills include Solid State Lighting, Energy Efficiency Consulting, Impact Evaluation, Measurement And Verification, and 2 others.