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Robert C. Grace

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Robert C. Grace is the Founder, President, and CEO of Sustainable Energy Advantage (SEA) and a recognized leader in electricity market design and clean energy policy and strategy. For more than 25 years, he has helped governments, market participants, and nonprofit organizations navigate the evolving clean energy landscape, providing market, policy, financial, and strategic analysis to over 200 clients across the United States. His work focuses on electricity markets, policies, and business opportunities related to renewable energy and energy storage.

Trained as an interdisciplinary analyst in energy and the environment, Bob brings a comprehensive, 360-degree perspective shaped by hands-on experience working with policymakers, regulators, utilities, system operators, developers, investors, and advocates. Over the course of his career, he has worked across a wide range of functions—including policy design, market analysis, project development, procurement and origination, and strategy—enabling him to address complex, multi-stakeholder challenges in a practical, objective, and insightful manner.

Bob founded SEA’s flagship Renewable Energy Market Outlook fundamentals analysis, the Massachusetts Clean Peak Market Outlook, and the firm’s Eyes & Ears regulatory, legislative, and policy monitoring services. These offerings are relied upon by market participants and government entities throughout the northeastern U.S. to deepen market understanding, inform investment and procurement decisions, and guide long-term strategy. He has led project teams developing, implementing, and refining policies and initiatives that have driven the deployment of thousands of megawatts of renewable energy and energy storage.

Before founding SEA, Bob played a key role in early electric industry restructuring efforts at New England Power Company and later served as Director of ReGen, the green power division of AllEnergy Marketing Company, which launched the first renewable energy–based retail electricity offering in the eastern United States.

Bob is a frequent speaker, author, and committee participant on issues shaping clean energy markets and policy. He is a past board member of the Northeast Energy & Commerce Association (NECA) and former co-chair of NECA’s Renewable Energy / Distributed Generation Committee. He holds an M.S. in Energy and Resources from the University of California, Berkeley, and a B.S. in Energy Studies from Brown University.

Tom Michelman

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Tom Michelman, Vice President & Senior Director, Distributed Energy Resources (DER) Practice Area Lead, joined SEA in 2013 and has over thirty years of experience in electric industry and renewable, retail & wholesale energy markets.

Tom has led deep dive analyses of DER renewable markets covering more than a dozen state markets as well as market entry / opportunity assessments that have covered all the US DER state markets. Highlighted analyses include DER revenue forecasting using SEA’s Revenue Stack Advantage^SM Approach to provide a robust market fundamentals approach to variable gross income forecasting, total addressable market assessments, queue forecasting, manager of SEA’s NY VDER custom calculator, and market fundamentals supply, demand, price forecasting of the Massachusetts, New Jersey, and Maryland SREC markets, including SREC market expert witness engagements.

Some of Tom’s recent public policy consulting highlights include analyses for state energy offices, commissions, in managing a ME PUC study on benefits-costs of solar for the legislature (2023-present, see link to 2023 report), co-managing 2024 MA SMART 2.0 study, and in 2026 acting as the Joint Solar Advocates’ (i.e., CCSA and SEIA) expert witness in FirstEnergy of PA’s approval of its default service plan, Docket No. P-2026-3060298 regarding proposed changes in net metering rules and compensation.

Previous highlights include managing / prominent roles in ME Governor’s Energy Office NEB 2.0 study, SMART Programmatic Review for Task 1 and Task 2, Massachusetts Post-1600 MW Solar Incentive Program Report, MA Net Metering and Solar Task Force and the 2019 New Jersey SREC Successor Program Study. For the government of Panama, Tom managed a review of the status, options, and repercussions for modifying DG incentives, market design, and facilitating infrastructure (e.g., smart meter deployment).

For public clients he has conducted due diligence and advised on the terms and conditions for a variety of power purchase / net metering offtake agreements and procurements. He innovatively structured, drafted and led sophisticated RFPs for clients seeking net zero status that incorporate the upside of battery storage savings and revenue capture via a shared savings / benefit structure.

For institutional clients, a municipal opt-out aggregator, and a community solar back-office firm, he has conducted market research, supported planning and operations, and analyzed various methods of renewable energy procurement to satisfy environmental and additionality goals.

For NGO’s he has provided critiques and recommendations for restructuring the Maryland SREC market, and provided statistical analysis that NYSERDA is using interconnection cost estimates far lower than what is incurred in practice to set DER incentives levels.

Prior to joining SEA Tom co-founded and was a Principal at Boreal Renewable Energy Development for ten years to cost effectively implement distributed generation renewable energy projects. Tom’s focus was utility scale distributed wind and solar generation at commercial, industrial, municipal, and institutional sites.

Prior to founding Boreal, Tom worked as an energy consultant for KEMA (formerly XENERGY and now DNV GL) for ten years primarily focusing on and co-managing their retail energy practice and analyzing the impact of energy efficiency programs.

Tom has an M.S. in Resource Economics from the University of Rhode Island, and B.A. in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences and Political Science from Northwestern University.

Jason Gifford

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Jason S. Gifford, Senior Vice President, has nearly 25 years of experience in the development of renewable energy policy, market analysis, and financial modeling. At Sustainable Energy Advantage, Jason leads and contributes to a wide range of consulting and strategic advisory services to both public- and private-sector market participants.  Through detail-oriented and objective analyses, Jason has supported the development and implementation of renewable energy policies for dozens of governmental entities and provided SEA’s electricity market participant clients with independent and actionable information to support informed decision-making.  

In addition, Jason established SEA’s financial modeling and advisory services practice area, which he now leads, and has provided expert testimony related to renewable energy policy, market, and technology development.  As a well-balanced quantitative and qualitative analyst, Jason has developed or contributed to an array of tools to help policy makers and market participants understand the market or financial implications of policy or business decisions, respectively.  Jason was the primary architect of the Cost of Renewable Spreadsheet Tool (CREST) model, under contract to the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.  The CREST models have been used to support and inform the development of cost-based incentives across the United States. 

Prior to joining SEA, Jason served as Industry Investment and Development Manager at the Massachusetts Technology Collaborative’s Renewable Energy Trust (what is now the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center). At MTC, Jason focused on investment-related financial analysis and due diligence, Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) market development, and contributed to the study and development of long-term hedge contracts between renewable energy generators and end-users.   

Prior to MTC. Jason was Manager of Regulatory Affairs and Business Development at Green Mountain Energy Company, where he led public policy efforts in the mid-Atlantic, mid-West, and New England, participated in retail product development and marketing, and negotiated a contract to serve the nation’s then-largest residential electric consumer aggregation. 

Jason holds a B.A. in Political Science from Bates College and an M.B.A. in Finance and Entrepreneurship from Babson College. 

Kathryn Craddock Mckee

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Kathryn Craddock McKee is Senior Director, Operations at Sustainable Energy Advantage and a member of the firm’s Management Team. She oversees the firm’s administrative and operational functions, including IT, human resources, bookkeeping, and vendor management, and supports SEA’s consulting and subscription businesses through effective operational management.

With more than 28 years of experience in operations, finance, and administration—and over 17 years in the clean energy sector—Kathryn contributes to financial management and oversees the firm’s bookkeeping and financial administration, including invoicing and expense management. She also oversees the administration and management of all client and vendor contracts, supports financial planning and operational budgeting, and works as part of the Management Team to strengthen operational controls and ensure the firm operates efficiently and effectively as it evolves.

Kathryn provides operational leadership that connects strategic priorities with effective processes, systems, and workflows. She is known for her strategic, detail-oriented approach and her ability to anticipate organizational needs, with a strong track record of identifying and implementing process improvements that enhance quality, reduce cost, and increase efficiency while ensuring organizational consistency and compliance.

Kathryn holds a B.A. in Physical Education from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. Outside of work, she is active in local land stewardship and trail leadership initiatives.

John Keene

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John Keene, Senior Director and General Counsel, is an attorney and energy policy analyst specializing in electric regulatory matters, wholesale electricity markets and transmission policy.

John began his career in the energy industry at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities where he started as a Hearing Officer and rose to become Director of the Division of Regional and Federal Affairs, serving the primary legal and policy advisor to the DPU’s Commission on regional and federal matters – including wholesale market design, transmission policy, and how these matters impact retail markets and distribution systems subject to state jurisdiction.

John left the DPU to join Boston-based renewable energy developer, First Wind, which was subsequently acquired by SunEdison and its subsidiary TerraForm Power, where his primary role was to represent SunEd/TERP’s operational and development interests on issues such as interconnection processes, energy and capacity markets, and transmission policy.

John served as Vice Chair of the New England Power Pool Alternative Resources sector for 3 terms (2015-2017), was on the Board of RENEW Northeast (2016), and served as NECPUC Electricity Staff Chair.  John was appointed by Governor Deval Patrick to the Eastern Interconnection States Planning Council (EISPC), a federally funded transmission planning initiative.

John earned his J.D. from Suffolk University Law School, and holds a B.A. in Philosophy and Political Science from Boston College.  In his spare time, John is actively involved in youth sports where he is a volunteer coach and a member of the Board of Directors for his hometown Little League affiliate.

Jim Kennerly

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Jim Kennerly, Director, joined SEA in April 2015 and has nearly 15 years of experience in clean energy market, policy, regulatory, and economic analysis, with particular expertise in energy storage and distributed energy resources. At SEA, Jim leads consulting engagements focused on clean energy and energy storage market development, policy and program design, market and revenue forecasting, and strategic analysis for public- and private-sector clients. He also leads the Massachusetts Clean Peak Market Outlook, a joint market intelligence and advisory service of SEA and Customized Energy Solutions (CES) focused on the rapidly evolving energy storage markets of the Northeast.

Jim’s work spans market and policy analysis, clean energy and storage incentive and procurement program design, revenue and cost analysis, deployment and market forecasting. His broader consulting practice includes distributed energy resource program design and economics, clean energy cost and price forecasting, attribute price forecasting, market development and entry strategy, public policy and regulatory analysis, due diligence support, rate forecasting, beneficial electrification, and analysis of the evolving grid and utility business model. Jim is also the emeritus lead for SEA’s Eyes and Ears (E&E) regulatory, policy, and legislative tracking and analysis services and remains a senior leader on the E&E team responsible for content and strategy after seven years managing the service.

Prior to joining SEA, Jim was Senior Policy Analyst at the North Carolina Clean Energy Technology Center at NC State University, where he served as a senior analyst for the Database of State Incentives for Renewables and Efficiency (DSIRE) and as a U.S. Department of Energy SunShot Initiative-funded researcher specializing in solar PV and distributed energy resource policy, economics, utility regulation, and rate design. Prior to working at the Center, Jim worked at the North Carolina Sustainable Energy Association and at ICF International (now ICF), where he served as a consultant to the U.S. EPA’s ENERGY STAR program.

Jim received a Master of Public Affairs degree from the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin and a B.A. in Politics from Oberlin College.

Chris Rice

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Chris Rice, Director, PJM Policy Lead, has over 20 years of experience driving positive change in the clean energy sector. At Sustainable Energy Advantage, Chris leverages his extensive experience to provide strategic guidance and technical expertise on PJM region market issues. He is a proven leader with a talent for building and managing high-performing teams, while also contributing to SEA’s diverse consulting engagements.

In addition, Chris spearheads SEA’s efforts in the PJM Interconnection footprint, a crucial electricity market serving millions of customers. He offers insightful leadership to the Eyes & Ears team, ensuring SEA stays abreast of the latest clean energy market developments. Chris actively contributes to SEA’s consulting engagements, tackling complex challenges and delivering successful outcomes for SEA’s clients.

Chris plays a key role in further strengthening SEA’s market-leading Renewable Energy Market Outlook (REMO) fundamentals analysis. His expertise is instrumental in expanding this analysis into the PJM/mid-Atlantic region.

Prior to joining SEA, Chris’s career included numerous roles at the Maryland Energy Administration (MEA). His experience encompasses leadership positions such as Chief of Staff and Director of Clean Energy Programs, where he excelled at managing staff, budgets, and delivering complex clean energy programs.

Chris holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from the University of Georgia.

Po-Yu Yuen

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Po-Yu Yuen, Director, joined SEA in 2013 and advises public agencies and private-sector clients on the design and evolution of clean energy policies and markets across the Northeast. She leads analytical and strategic advisory engagements, specializing in clean energy procurement and offtake structures, RPS and CES frameworks, REC market dynamics, and the techno-economic evaluation of large-scale renewable, offshore wind, and energy storage resources.

Po-Yu leads SEA’s New York Renewable Energy Market Outlook (NY-REMO) service, providing forward-looking analysis of the New York Clean Energy Standard market, including procurement pricing trends, compliance supply-demand and cost dynamics, and project pipeline competitiveness. She also directs analytical efforts supporting SEA’s New England REMO service, shaping long-term supply-demand-price outlooks for Class I REC markets and policy- and market-driven scenario analysis. In addition, she oversees the strategic application of SEA’s Simulator of Northeast Offshore Wind Buildout and LCOE (SNOWBaL) model to inform client decision-making on policy design, market entry, bid strategy, and long-term development planning.

Her experience includes contributing to major public policy modeling and analyses, including NYSERDA’s cost analysis accompanying New York’s 70% renewable energy target and the Analysis of Massachusetts Electricity Sector Regulations, which supported the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection’s implementation of the Clean Energy Standard. Through this work, Po-Yu has helped inform state-level clean energy implementation strategies, market design decisions, and investment planning.

Prior to joining SEA, Po-Yu was an intern at the Metropolitan Area Planning Council, where she supported the Clean Energy Division’s municipal energy data analysis and regional energy procurement services, as well as developed strategic energy action plans for communities in the Greater Boston region.

Po-Yu holds a M.S. in Urban and Regional Policy from Northeastern University focusing on clean energy policy and sustainable community development and a B.S. in Environmental Science from Wentworth Institute of Technology.

Julia Sander

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Julia Sander, Marketing Manager, joined SEA in July 2024. Julia is a dynamic marketing professional known for her ability to leverage integrated multi-channel marketing strategies to enhance brand positioning, drive demand generation, and increase product and service awareness.

As the Marketing Manager, Julia plays a pivotal role in supporting and executing the evolving marketing strategy for SEA’s consulting and subscription products and services.

In her previous roles, Julia utilized her expertise in data analytics and integrated marketing to drive energy savings and cultivate partnerships with major utility companies. She successfully marketed products, programs, and services across various sectors, ensuring that branding standards were upheld, and clients were positioned as trusted community resources.

Julia holds a Bachelor of Applied Science in Finance and Marketing from Miami University, where she also studied International Business at the John E. Dolibois European Center in Luxembourg.

Roddy Akeel

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Roddy Akeel, Lead Technical Consultant, joined SEA in January 2026. Roddy supports a range of BESS related subject matter, leaning on his experience in merchant BESS operations and analytical tool development.

Prior to joining SEA, Roddy worked at an IPP, supporting daily operation and strategic market participation of BESS in ERCOT. His role focused on technical communication, report building and automation, and price forecasting. In addition to supporting the BESS team, he was responsible for capacity market participation in PJM and New England. Roddy has also previously worked in the energy consulting industry and in mechanical design of distribution-sized BESS systems.

Roddy holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from The University of Virginia and a MSc in Electric Power Engineering from Reykjavik University.

Cal Brown

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Cal Brown, Associate Consultant, joined SEA in May 2021. Cal performs detailed research and policy analysis and gathers market and policy intelligence related to legislative and regulatory developments. Cal has a particular focus on distributed energy resources, helping stakeholders understand, craft, and participate in behind the meter and community-scale procurements and incentive programs, such as engaging in a 2023-2024 review of the Massachusetts SMART program, and as the Ombudsperson team for the NRES, RRES, and SCEF programs in Connecticut. He also leverages his background in policymaking as the legislative article editor for SEA’s Eyes and Ears service. Cal serves on the Board of Directors for the Northeast Energy and Commerce Association (NECA), and an active member of the NECA Renewable Energy Committee.

Prior to working at SEA, Cal managed political campaigns on the federal, state, and local levels in the Northeast, oversaw recruitment and staffing operations for national advocacy organizations, and served as Staff Director in the Massachusetts legislature.

Cal holds a Master of Energy Regulation and Law degree from Vermont Law and Graduate School, and a B.A. with a concentration in History and Political Science from Hampshire College.

Eric Pinsker-Smith

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Eric Pinsker-Smith, Associate Consultant, joined SEA in January 2020. Eric leads the development and maintenance of several economic and econometric market models that track and/or forecast the proliferation of voluntary power purchase agreements, community choice aggregations, electric vehicles (EVs), air-source heat pumps (ASHPs), and clean heat standards in the Northeast. Eric co-leads the development, maintenance, and sales of SEA’s customized New York Value of Distributed Energy (VDER) Calculator, which provides clients with revenue forecasts for their solar, solar-plus-storage, and standalone storage projects participating in New York’s VDER program. Eric supports SEA’s Renewable Energy Market Outlook (REMO) services by conducting quantitative and qualitative analysis of wholesale markets and electrification, and by assisting with SEA’s large-scale renewable project pipeline analysis. Eric also helps lead SEA’s energy storage dispatch modeling and forecasting practice areas.

Moreover, Eric contributes to SEA’s Eyes & Ears weekly subscription service, which entails tracking, analyzing, and distilling the regulatory, legislative, policy, and market activities in New York, New England, and PJM with an emphasis on wholesale markets, large-scale renewable/nuclear developments, beneficial electrification, and voluntary market activities.

Previously, Eric worked as an Associate Supervisor for National Grid where he was involved with complex pipeline construction and natural gas project construction price forecasting. Eric has eight years of experience in the energy sector in the fields of power market analysis, pipeline infrastructure construction, renewable product engineering, and environmental sustainability.

Eric holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering and an M.S. in Sustainability, both from the University of Rochester.

Sahil Bakht

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Sahil Bakht, Principal Analyst, joined SEA in March 2021, where he performs a wide variety of qualitative and quantitative analysis for SEA’s subscription-based Renewable Energy Market Outlook (REMO) service in New York and New England. His subject matter topics include benefit-cost analysis on clean and renewable energy programs, solar and storage revenue analysis, distributed energy resource (DER) analysis, and voluntary market analysis. Sahil works extensively in analyzing variable revenue forecasts of community solar and net metering projects for multiple Investor-Owned Utilities across U.S. Sahil also helps in building custom models for various clients to analyze incremental storage revenue streams for different solar and battery storage configurations. Sahil also supports SEA with research work related to and development of storage technology in the US.

Prior to working at SEA, Sahil interned at Metalmark Innovations in Harvard-Innovation Labs, Boston, where he designed electrical systems to tests novel metal oxide materials, developed by the company, for air purification. He also worked on a multitude of things including integrating various gas sensors and analyzing their behavior in different conditions; developing data visualization techniques; operating laser and metal cutting machines; and making multiple CAD designs.

Sahil holds a Bachelors in Electronics and Telecommunication from Rajiv Gandhi Institute of Technology in India and Masters in Energy Systems from Northeastern University in Boston.

James Spalding

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James Spalding, Ph.D., Principal Analyst, joined SEA in November of 2023. James earned his Ph.D. at the University of Strathclyde and has researched how increased future emissions will impact the total energy potential available from offshore renewable energy resources. At SEA, James supports the modeling and analysis efforts for both the New York and New England Renewable Energy Market Outlook services (REMO) through data collection and curation, model implementation, results synthesis and quality control of model outputs.

James also provides model development work towards energy storage optimization models, and contributes to SEA’s Simulator of Northeast Offshore Wind Buildout and LCOE (SNOWBaL). In addition, James tracks and reports on changes to supply and demand drivers, RPS standards, and large-scale renewable project updates in New England, New York, and the PJM.

Prior to working at SEA James worked as an independent consultant, performing data analytics, site inspections, and logistics support for engineering firms and other adjacent industries. James received a B.S. from the University of Maine in civil engineering

Yasin Naman

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Yasin Naman, Senior Analyst, joined SEA in 2021 and has seven years of experience in electricity market analysis and clean energy policy modeling. He specializes in wholesale electricity market revenue modeling, energy storage valuation, Renewable Energy Certificate (REC) and Clean Peak Certificate (CPEC) market analysis, and large-scale renewable supply curve development. Yasin supports client engagements involving project valuation, regulatory strategy, market outlook forecasting, and financial risk assessment across the Northeast. He contributes to SEA’s energy storage practice areas, developing dispatch and valuation models for standalone and hybrid storage systems, and conducting market assessments for hydrogen deployment in Northeast electricity markets. His work includes wholesale energy and capacity market analysis, resource accreditation, and assessment of evolving market rules affecting storage and renewable resources. He also evaluates distributed energy resources and distribution-connected storage, including interconnection, tariff-based compensation, and revenue-stacking opportunities.

Before joining SEA, Yasin worked as a mechanical designer of power systems with Siemens, performing energy and carbon accounting systems for Covestro. He also worked as a researcher in Energy Systems at Northeastern University (Boston, MA) and Universidad de America (Bogota, Colombia). His prior research experience includes the development of CHP sizing and cost-optimization tools and the publication of findings in peer-reviewed journals, strengthening his ability to translate technical modeling into practical market applications.

Yasin holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering for Universidad de los Andes, Colombia and a M.S. degree in Energy Systems from Northeastern University.

Yasin holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering for Universidad de los Andes, Colombia and a M.S. degree in Energy Systems from Northeastern University.

Jacob Nichols

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Jacob Nichols, Principal Analyst, Jacob joined SEA in June 2023, where he monitors and summarizes renewable energy policy developments for SEA’s Eyes and Ears service, with a focus on wholesale markets, transmission planning, and federal tax and trade policy. He also supports the ongoing maintenance and enhancement of the databases and economic models underlying SEA’s New England and New York Renewable Energy Market Outlook services.

Jacob has been a primary contributor to a range of client projects, including supporting analysis for the Massachusetts DOER’s 2025 SMART Programmatic Review and a comparative ratepayer value analysis to determine the preferred wholesale market disposition for Maine’s Net Energy Billing resources. His project experience also includes work on Rhode Island’s Renewable Energy Growth program and Community Remote Net Metering proposals, the District of Columbia SREC market, retail-based peak-shaving programs, and municipal siting regulations for solar and battery energy storage projects.

Jacob holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Babson College, with a minor in Environmental Sustainability.

Dan Wilson

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Dan Wilson, Senior Office Manager & Business Process Coordinator, joined SEA in January 2020. Dan has worked within an operations and administrative capacity for over fourteen years, all in the small business realm, during which he has developed a Jack-of-all-Trade skillset, with particular emphasis on financials, human resources, data integrity, and marketing. Dan supports SEA’s subscription services and account management, Information Technology services, marketing operations and outreach, website development, human resources operations, and office management.

Jonas Kaplan-Bucciarelli

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Jonas Kaplan-Bucciarelli, Market Analyst, initially joined SEA as an Intern in January 2023, returning for a second internship in January 2024 and joining the full-time staff in June 2024. Jonas covers legislative affairs and distributed energy resources (DER) policy for SEA’s Eyes and Ears Service and performs DER market and policy analysis for client projects. Outside of work, Jonas serves as a co-chair for the Northeast Energy and Commerce Association (NECA) Young Professionals Committee.

He holds a B.A. from Boston University, with a major in Environmental Analysis and Policy and a minor in Economics.

Qinyi Ma

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Qinyi (‘chin-ee’) Ma, Market Analyst, joined SEA full-time in May 2025. She contributes to SEA’s Eyes & Ears writing service, focusing on interconnection of small-scale resources, and provides analytical support across a range of consulting projects. Qinyi supports other consulting engagements that help clients adapt to changing market and policy dynamics. Prior to SEA, Qinyi worked at ADL Ventures, an energy consulting firm focused on scaling clean energy startups.

In her free time, Qinyi enjoys cooking, gardening, and creative writing.

Qinyi holds a B.S. in International Economics and Environmental Policy from Tufts University.

Yoshi Futai

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Yoshi Futai, Business Development Research Analyst, joined SEA full time in June 2026, where she supports SEA’s business development efforts by managing sales opportunities, coordinating client engagement, assisting with proposal and contract processes, and maintaining CRM records to ensure visibility across the business development pipeline. She continues to support SEA’s Eyes & Ears subscription service and tracks renewable energy policy developments, providing research and analysis on regulations, legislation and New England’s REC markets.

Prior to SEA, Yoshi worked as a Programs Assistant at Green Newton, a non-profit climate advocacy group, where she collaborated with city council members to help transition Newton to clean energy solutions. She has also served as a UBC Sustainability Ambassador and worked with the UBC community to advance the university’s climate goals.

Yoshi holds a B.A. in Environment and Sustainability from the University of British Columbia.

Isaac Dame

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Isaac Dame, Research Fellow, joined SEA in January 2026. He contributes to the SEA Eyes & Ears subscription service and monitors renewable energy legislative developments. Prior to joining SEA, he served as an intern with the Fix the Grid campaign, where he refined campaign strategy, analyzed energy policy developments in New England, and provided administrative support. He also conducted research on the supply chain and workforce development implications of the Salem Offshore Wind Terminal through a fellowship with Salem Alliance for the Environment and the Tisch College of Civic Life.

Isaac is a recent graduate of Tufts University, holding a B.A. in Applied Environmental Studies and a minor in Sociology.

Chu Fang

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Chu Fang, Research Associate Intern, joined SEA in September 2026. Chu supports SEA’s Eyes and Ears subscription service and monitors renewable energy regulatory and policy developments.

Prior to SEA, Chu spent several years in the diplomatic service in the Middle East, where he researched Gulf states’ energy markets and advised on energy cooperation initiatives. He also worked as a Summer Intern and Research Assistant at the Harvard Growth Lab, where he built a diagnostic framework benchmarking Morocco’s energy-system viability and conducted an empirical study on electricity affordability in Nigeria’s power sector.

Chu holds a Master in Public Administration in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School, and a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Literature in Arabic from Peking University.

Raymond Coxe, Ph.D.

Ray has worked at the crossroads of electricity markets, economic regulation and commercial evaluations in both the US and internationally for over thirty five years, a period spanning the arc of industry restructuring.  Ray has unique expertise in the interrelationships among market structure, economic regulation and commercial evaluations, including project development, financial analysis, and market structure evaluation.

First in various roles at New England Electric System, during the earliest days of restructuring the late 1980s and early 1990s, and then as a Senior Vice-President at TransÉnergie U.S. Ltd. (developer of the first negotiated-rate transmission project in the United States), Ray was instrumental in successfully resolving many issues regarding market structure, economic regulation and commercial feasibility of market-driven initiatives.  These successes include many “first of a kind” accomplishments that have served as templates for others and range from the earliest stages of project conceptualization to the profitable sale of the operational project.

Since 2006, Ray has been an independent electricity market consultant, with a focus on advising clients on the commercial and regulatory aspects of complex wholesale power projects and transactions.  His power sector clients have included US and international developers, investors, regulatory bodies and utilities.

In addition to testifying before the US FERC and the US Department of Energy, Ray has spoken widely at industry forums and conferences.

Ray’s academic background includes undergraduate and doctoral degrees from MIT.

William (Bill) Golove

Bill Golove, Executive Advisor, is an innovative professional with more than 30 years’ experience designing and developing clean energy projects and programs for companies ranging from small start-ups to major corporations and governmental entities. Bill’s career experience includes a mix of academic and industry positions, including research, teaching, consulting, staff and executive positions within the sustainable energy industry. Bill has held positions such as Chief Development Officer for Tri Global Energy, a Dallas-based renewable development company, Executive Director of Business Development for Northland Power, a Toronto-based IPP, Senior Business Development Manager for Chevron Energy Solutions and Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

Bill has been working on clean energy projects for the past 25 years. Among his accomplishments, he led the development of approximately 4,000 MW of renewable generation projects currently in late-stage financing, construction and/or operation. In addition, he has advised on M&A transactions involving several thousand MW of development stage assets.  Prior to that, Bill led development of more than $100 Million of “behind the meter” energy projects, including energy efficiency, solar, demand response, fuel cells and co-generation at more than 500 facilities in California.

He contributed to the development of the first wind project in Eritrea on behalf of the World Bank and advised the US Postal Service, General Services Administration, Department of Energy, Air Force, Department of Veterans Affairs and other US government agencies on renewable power procurement and project development. Further, Bill developed pre- feasibility financial analysis software for sustainable energy projects and gave training on its use in countries around the world.

Bill is a nationally-recognized expert in sustainable energy, having published more than 40 papers and given over 100 invited lectures on a wide variety of related topics. He was twice awarded the US Presidential Award for Federal Energy Management for his work on behalf of the federal government. He has a Ph.D., Energy and Resources Group (2006), MA, Energy and Resources Group, (1995), MBA (1992) and BA, Political Science (1988), all from U.C. Berkeley.

Bruce Burcat

Bruce Burcat, Executive Advisor, is an attorney with over thirty-years’ experience in the utility and energy regulatory fields.  He was responsible for MAREC Action’s efforts to promote the growth and development of renewable energy in its ten jurisdictions, all within the PJM Interconnection, LLC footprint.  Mr. Burcat joined the Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Coalition (MAREC) in 2010 as its Executive Director and later transitioned to heading MAREC Action as Executive Director.  Bruce retired from his role at MAREC Action in 2023.  Prior to assuming his role in the renewable energy industry, Mr. Burcat served for nearly fifteen years as the Executive Director of the Delaware Public Service Commission.  He was also an attorney for the New Jersey Division of the Ratepayer Advocate (now Rate Counsel), managing the Division’s water and wastewater utility cases and represented the Advocate in energy cases.  Prior to that he served as a Senior Rate Attorney for General Waterworks Management and Service Company.

Mr. Burcat is a graduate of the University of Delaware.  He received his Juris Doctor degree from Rutgers University School of Law – Camden and a Master of Laws (LL.M.) degree in Taxation from the Villanova University School of Law.