Jennifer Holmes, M.S.

Principal Consultant

Perhaps the biggest influence that led me to where I am today was an environmental economics course.  On the first day of class the professor explained that focus of the course was  on the allocation of scarce resources, market intervention strategies, learning the tools to estimate costs and benefits of market interventions and regulations, and data needs to inform policy decisions.  About a third of the class did not return after that first day, but I definitely stayed!

Jennifer joined Michaels Energy with over 25 years of experience in the energy efficiency industry. Jennifer began her career as an evaluator of the energy and demand impacts of utility-administered energy efficiency programs, primarily in California.  As policy and regulatory objectives shifted, her experience broadened to include market baseline and market effects studies, pilot program design and evaluation, process evaluations, and workflow analysis. Jennifer later served as the Evaluation Director and then the Business Development Director for a small energy industry consulting firm. Most recently Jennifer has served as staff for the California Technical Forum (Cal TF) through which she led cross-functional teams to advance processes and standards for deemed energy efficiency measure development and documentation, and regulatory review workflow.

Jennifer earned her Master of Science in Mineral Economics (Energy and Environment track) and her Bachelor of Science of Economics from Penn State University.
When she is not working, you can find Jennifer in Santa Cruz, California walking the beach, at local restaurants, and enjoying live music with her partner Marc, friends, and her cherished dog “Rudy”.  She has two daughters who are currently attending college.