#14: Spatial Analytics Drive Energy Renewables Policy (Joe Nyangon, Ph.D.)

Dr. Joe Nyangon is a power and energy systems engineering economist specializing in utilities innovation at the SAS Institute. With over 15 years of dual experience in academia and industry, he has led complex projects in power system planning and operations, energy economics, advanced energy modeling and decision analytics, strategic infrastructure investment, risk pricing strategies, and technology innovation. Prior to joining SAS, Dr. Nyangon was a postdoctoral researcher in energy policy, economics and innovation at the University of Delaware where he led research efforts funded by the U.S. Department of Energy through the National Science Foundation (NSF) on the overarching trends shaping electric power systems, including decarbonization, decentralization and digitalization. Dr. Nyangon’s PhD dissertation from the University of Delaware, focused on restructured electricity market design and regulatory innovation for a distributed utilities future in top solar energy producing states such as California, North Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, New Jersey, Utah, Massachusetts, Georgia, Texas, and New York. He also evaluated resource adequacy and capacity market design models that blend renewable energy and natural gas resources in the PJM Intercontinental, Midcontinent independent system operator, Texas’ ERCOT, and New York regional electricity markets. Working at the leading edge of the Utility of the Future discourse, he has assessed alternative utility regulation and pioneering grid modernization models like New York’s Reforming the Energy Vision process and Great Britain… Read More