Associate Consultant
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.