AEC2016

Margarett Jolly

Director Demonstration Projects

Con Edison




Margarett Jolly collaborates with technology leaders developing new solutions that open the grid to customers and grid participant. Her professional and personal background provides her the technical and policy tools, partnerships and passion that are making the grid a better place. She is recent Director of R&D at Con Edison and currently Director Demonstration Projects in the Customer Energy Solutions organization where her team solicits, develops, demonstrates, and scales alternative ways of doing business with the utility. Demonstrations include customer facing business models for storage, solar, rate design, low and middle-income customers, and web portals to connect residential and commercial customers with innovative energy management tools. She has been with Con Edison since 1997. Margarett's early career included power plant control systems and boiler operations, followed by regulatory and energy markets policy, electric distribution engineering, and as the Company's DG Ombudsperson. She graduated from New York City Technical College in 1993 and from the Cooper Union in 1997 with a BE in Mechanical Engineering. A licensed Professional Engineer in New York State since 2004, Margarett serves on the Boards of Green City Force and Grid Alternative Tri-State. Margarett speaks regularly about the evolving role of the electric grid.

Presentation: Energy Storage Permitting Requirements