Systems Engineer
Systems Engineer

Biography

Juliet Homer is team leader of the Energy Policy Analytics team within the Energy Policy and Economics group at PNNL. She’s a professional engineer with expertise in the changing electric power grid and associated changes to planning, policy, and regulation. She also has a background and experience in municipal water and wastewater systems and leads an integrated-water-power resilience project at PNNL for DOE’s Water Power Technologies Office. Juliet's work at PNNL centers on the energy-water nexus and electric integrated distribution system planning with distributed energy resources. Juliet regularly works with state public utility commissions and state energy offices around the United States on issues of forecasting, characterizing, valuing, and planning for distributed energy resources. Juliet enjoys bringing people together and leading conversations and workshops that lead to collaborations and creative solutions to complex challenges.

Before joining PNNL, Juliet worked as a utility analyst with the Oregon Public Utility Commission (PUC) where she managed the review of electricity and natural gas utility resource planning dockets. She also performed economic analyses of utility-proposed energy efficiency, renewable energy, and grid modernization investments and oversaw Energy Trust of Oregon programs for the Oregon PUC. Juliet previously worked at Greeley and Hansen, LLC, a multi-national engineering consulting firm where she was a project engineer on water and wastewater planning and design projects in Arizona. Juliet holds a Master's Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering from Arizona State University.

Disciplines and Skills

  • Electric distribution system planning with distributed energy resources
  • Institutional, regulatory, and policy issues associated with the changing power grid
  • Energy demand and distributed energy resources forecasting
  • Integrated planning for water and power systems resilience
  • Planning for water and climate variability
  • Policy impact analysis
  • Grid modernization
  • Utility economics and benefit-cost analysis

Education

  • Arizona Registered Professional Engineer 2000
  • Oregon Registered Professional Engineer 2009
  • Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

Publications

2021

2020

  • Foster N, AC Orrell, JS Homer, and JD Tagestad. 2020. “The ‘Perfect Storm’ for Distributed Wind Markets.” Renewable Energy 145. PNNL-SA-120586. doi:10.1016/j.renene.2019.05.058
  • Homer JS, DC Preziuso, TC Douville, and RS O'Neil. 2020. Water and Wastewater Systems as Potential Distributed Energy Resources for California - High-level Feasibility Assessment. PNNL-29405. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Water and Wastewater Systems as Potential Distributed Energy Resources for California - High-level Feasibility Assessment
  • Reiman AP, JS Homer, BP Bhattarai, and AC Orrell. 2020. “Quantifying Technical Diversity Benefits of Wind as a Distributed Energy Resource.” In IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT 2020), February 17-20, 2020, Washington, D.C., 1-5. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-146894. doi:10.1109/ISGT45199.2020.9087665

2019

2018

2017

  • Homer JS. 2017. Distribution System Market Considerations for the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission. PNNL-26822. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Richland, WA.
  • Homer JS, AL Cooke, L Schwartz, G Leventis, F Flores-Espino, and M Coddington. 2017. State Engagement in Electric Distribution System Planning. PNNL-27066. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Richland, WA. State Engagement in Electric Distribution System Planning
  • Kintner-Meyer M, JS Homer, PJ Balducci, and MR Weimar. 2017. Valuation of Electric Power System Services and Technologies. PNNL-25633. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Richland, WA. Valuation of Electric Power System Services and Technologies
  • Orrell AC, N Foster, JS Homer, and SL Morris. 2017. 2016 Distributed Wind Market Report. PNNL-26540. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Richland, WA. 2016 Distributed Wind Market Report
  • Tang Y, JS Homer, TE McDermott, M Coddington, B Sigrin, and B Mather. 2017. Summary of Electric Distribution System Analyses with a focus on DERs. PNNL-26272. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Richland, WA. Summary of Electric Distribution System Analyses with a focus on DERs

2016

2015

  • Homer JS. 2015. GridWise Architecture Council: Valuation of Transactive Energy Systems Technical Meeting Proceedings, September 29-30, 2015, Taylor, Texas. Richland, Washington:GridWise Architecture Council. PNNL-SA-115150.