Jaclyn Rambarran is a Graduate Research Assistant at the Center for Energy and Environmental Policy Research and is currently pursuing an S.M. In Technology and Policy at MIT. Her current research with Christopher Knittel focuses on the potential for electric school buses to serve as distributed storage resources for peak load mitigation. Jaclyn holds a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering and a certificate in sustainable energy from Princeton University.
Jaclyn comes to MIT from Eversource, where she managed the statewide evaluation and measurement activities required to establish the value of all Mass Save energy efficiency, demand response, and decarbonization programs. Previously, she worked on energy-water nexus policy issues at the Environmental Defense Fund as a High Meadows Fellow. Jaclyn is passionate about broadening our collective understanding of cost-effective solutions for climate change mitigation and energy resilience.