Todd Olinsky-Paul
Senior Project Director
Todd works on CEG’s Resilient Power Project in the areas of solar+storage for critical infrastructure energy resiliency, distributed energy storage policy and economics, and is the CEG/CESA lead for state energy storage policy support. He also directs CESA’s Energy Storage and Technology Advancement Partnership (ESTAP) project, which aims to accelerate large scale electrical energy storage deployment through collaborative efforts between state energy agencies, US DOE Office of Electricity and Sandia National Laboratories. His recent work has focused on supporting state energy storage program and policy development, particularly in the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic states, with independent research and analysis in the areas of energy storage with equity, virtual power plants, battery storage as an efficiency measure, policy best practices, interconnection barriers and energy storage benefit-cost analysis. Todd holds an M.S. in Environmental Policy from Bard College and a B.A. from Brown University.
Initiatives: Resilient Power Project, Energy Storage Policy and Regulation, Distributed Energy Storage, Efficiency, and Demand Response
Tel: 802-223-2554 x207
Email: [email protected]
Location: Montpelier, VT
Commentary: Assessing energy storage equity in Massachusetts
In a guest post for Northeast Energy News, CEG’s Todd Olinsky-Paul explores whether Massachusetts’ energy storage programs are living up to the Commonwealth’s clean energy equity commitments.
Report Finds Mass. Storage Programs Falling Short on Equity
Todd Olinsky-Paul talked with RTO Insider about CEG’s new analysis of equity provisions in Massachusetts energy storage programs
Clean Energy Group Urges Utilities to Replace Peakers with VPPs
This article in RTO Insider recaps CEG’s webinar with Brattle Group on the potential for virtual power plants to replace peaker power plants. CEG’s Shelley Robbins and Todd Olinsky-Paul are quoted.
No ‘silver bullet’: Report lays out fixes for interconnection delays plaguing US renewables and storage
This Utility Dive article highlights the findings of CEG’s energy storage interconnection report
Impact of NJ’s Storage Plan on Overburdened Communities Questioned
Todd Olinsky-Paul, CEG Senior Project Director, quoted in RTO Insider
Northeast embraces first-of-a-kind virtual power plant
Todd Olinsky-Paul, CEG Senior Project Director, quoted in Energywire
States Face Challenge Tying Storage Incentives to Emissions Reduction
Todd Olinsky-Paul, CEG Senior Project Director, quoted in RTO Insider
Utility-scale batteries? VPP programs? Both? How states are valuing energy storage
Todd Olinsky-Paul, CEG Senior Project Director, quoted in Solar Builder