Jerry Jackson BIO

Summary

Jerry Jackson is a Ph.D economist providing consulting assistance with utility customer energy data development and analysis and assessing Scope 3 residential and commercial firm emissions. He is president of Jackson Associates (JA) with more than 100 private company, utilities, state and federal agency clients. A partial list of clients is provided here.

His software development achievements include receiving a patent for the MAISY visual drill-down and data visualization process (US Patent 5,894,311, Computer-Based Visual Data Evaluation) that has been licensed to nearly every major business intelligence software company including Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, SAS, and others. He developed cutting edge energy forecasting and analysis model software and utility customer databases used by more than one hundred utilities, state and federal agencies and private companies to forecast future energy use, peak demand, impacts of DSM,DR, and smart grid technology programs, new technology market potential and penetration and other issues.

He is the author of the MAISY Utility Customer Energy Use and Hourly Load Databases. MAISY® (Market Analysis and Information System) Databases are the energy industry's most widely used, authoritative source of utility customer energy use information available. MAISY database information has been used by utilities, energy service providers, energy service companies, equipment manufacturers, research organizations and other organizations interested in utility customer energy use. MAISY data have also been used to support US Department of Energy appliance and equipment efficiency standards development. Databases are developed from information on more than 7 million individual utility customers throughout the US, providing a representative sample of residential and commercial customers for metropolitan areas, utility service areas, and state.

JA Scope 3 Financed Databases provide a new resource to help financial institutions comply with Scope 3 mortgage and commercial real estate loan customer emissions. Data are based on ZIP-level detail drawn from the MAISY databases. MAISY data also powers an AI- based process that matches loan customer characteristics to customer in the MAISY databases in a real-time AI machine learning process that estimates energy use and emissions. Click here for additional information.

Databases reflect information from hundreds of different customer and market data sources including onsite customer surveys, utility and fuel supplier billing data, government, association and proprietary data, and other sources including ongoing Jackson Associates utility customer data development. Databases are continuously updated to reflect important recent trends in the most important determinants of residential, commercial, and industrial energy use.

Large customer samples within geographic areas maintain the diversity of actual customer populations, providing a more accurate analysis of customers, markets and market segments compared to "average" customer information or model-based results.

One of his newest interests is providing software "Widgets" that incorporate components of the software and energy customer data that he has developed to provide energy insights supporting marketing and sales for private and public organizations promoting energy efficiency.

In addition to his consulting practice Dr. Jackson held a Signature Professor position at Texas A&M University where he established and led an 18 utility-member consortium to provide financial analysis modeling of technologies associated with "smart" electric grids including combined heat and power, solar, fuel cells, demand response and other applications.

One of the outcomes of his technology-related market and financial analysis research at Texas A&M University is the book Energy Budgets at Risk (EBAR): Risk Management Approach to Energy Purchase and Efficiency (Wiley, April, 2008) which provides the first risk management approach to evaluate energy efficiency investments. EBaR extends financial risk management principles to address energy efficiency investment decision. His contributions in this area were recognized with his appointment to the board of editors for the first academic journal on sustainable real estate published by the American Real Estate Society.

Dr. Jackson is an expert on new energy technologies and their diffusion in the market. He has assisted leading US, Asian and European technology companies in analyzing and evaluating new technology markets, new product design, and market strategy development. He is actively involved in development and analysis issues related to fuel cells, microturbines, combined heat and power, cool storage, flywheel, demand response and other new energy technology systems. His technology clients include companies such as United Technologies, Sharp Laboratories, Ingersoll Rand, Toyota, Aisin, Bloom Energy, Ice Energy and other equipment manufacturers.

He has worked extensively with private sector clients on market analysis and marketing strategy development. He developed individual electric utility profit scoring models and provided support in developing a profit-maximizing mass market strategy for the deregulated subsidiary of one of the largest utilities in the Southwest.

He has provided extensive expert testimony including forecasting analysis for dozens of electric utilities. He served as an expert witness for the provincial electric utility regulatory agency in New Brunswick, participated in an expert working group recommendation to enhance commercial buildings energy efficiency at a European Commission conference, and a United Nations Energy Expert Working Group Meeting on Industrial Energy Efficiency. He served on review boards for the UK's Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council, Science Foundation Arizona and the Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Innovation.

He has served as a consultant to the California Energy Commission, the Electric Power Research Institute, Washington State University, Colorado School of Mines, the Solar Energy Research Institute, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the states of Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas and several dozen utilities. At the US Department of Energy's (DOE) request, he conducted a series of focus group sessions to help guide future DOE data collection and database development. He has also served as a consultant to DOE on various database and data development issues.

He has served in advisory roles to energy regulators and policy makers in the states of California, Indiana, New York, Texas, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Washington, to the US Department of Energy and its national laboratories, to ministries in the Canadian provinces of Ontario and New Brunswick. He has been both an active participant and an advisor and reviewer for the Department of Energy's appliance efficiency program. He served on NASA's "Capacity Building for the Utilization of Earth Observations among Utility Providers" Advisory Group.

Dr. Jackson is widely published in both academic and industry publications and more than two hundred technical reports for clients.

Previous positions include Chief of the Applied Research Division at Georgia Tech Research Institute, Economist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory and the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Florida. He has taught University-level courses in economics, business strategy, mathematics, statistics, project management and energy risk analysis.