• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Jill Engel-Cox

NREL

Director of the Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis

Jill Engel-Cox is director of JISEA (Joint Institute for Strategic Energy Analysis) at the US National Renewable Energy Laboratory . Over her 30-year career, Engel-Cox has been an engineer, researcher, program manager, and strategic planner for a diverse suite of renewable energy, clean technology, and environmental programs in the United States, Asia, and Middle East. Her first job was climbing smokestacks in Los Angeles, followed by leading industrial pollution prevention programs for small and medium sized businesses and R&D laboratories in the United States and internationally. In the past decade, she has led international strategic planning and technology assessments for renewable energy and environmental sustainability research programs, working extensively in Malaysia and Saudi Arabia. She also teaches industrial processes and environmental communications courses at Johns Hopkins University Engineering for Professionals Program.

Sessions With Jill Engel-Cox

Wednesday, 11 March

  • 11:30am - 12:20pm (CST) / -

    Alternative Renewables: Which technologies can scale?
    Clean Tech

    Deep decarbonization will require an “all of the above” approach, where society deploys a myriad of strategies to lowering emissions. The increasing penetration of wind and solar have already shown that complimenting and competing renewable technologies are necessary to balance a decarbonized electric grid. What technologies could join wind and solar at the scale necessary for the upcoming energy transition?