Juliet Homer

Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
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Biography

Juliet Homer is team lead of the Energy Policy Analytics Team within the Energy Policy and Economics Group at PNNL. She is a professional engineer with expertise in the changing electric power grid and associated changes to planning, policy, and regulation. Juliet's work at PNNL centers on electric integrated distribution system planning with distributed energy resources. She also works on planning, operation, and governance issues associated with integrated water and power systems. Juliet also supports the distributed wind portfolio at PNNL. Juliet regularly works with state public utility commissions and state energy offices around the United States on issues of characterizing, valuing, and planning for distributed energy resources.

Before joining PNNL, Juliet worked as a utility analyst with the Oregon Public Utility Commission 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. 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.

Research Interests

Energy policy and regulation
Electric distribution system planning with distributed energy resources
Integrated water-power systems
Integrated energy planning
Systems analysis
Grid modernization and resilience

Education and Credentials

B.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Arizona State University 1995
M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering, Arizona State University 1997
Arizona Registered Professional Engineer 2000
Oregon Registered Professional Engineer 2009
Project Management Professional (PMP), 2016

PNNL Publications

2023

Homer J.S., A.L. Cooke, K. Kazimierczuk, R.M. Tapio, J. Peacock, and A.G. King. 2023. Emerging Best Practices for Electric Utility Planning with Climate Variability: A Resource for Utilities and Regulators. PNNL-34304. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Emerging Best Practices for Electric Utility Planning with Climate Variability: A Resource for Utilities and Regulators
Homer J.S., D.R. Judi, J.C. Fuller, and S.R. Bates. 2023. Grid Resilience to Extreme Events - Connecting Science to Investments and Policy. PNNL-34091. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Grid Resilience to Extreme Events - Connecting Science to Investments and Policy
Mongird K., J.S. Rice, K. Oikonomou, and J.S. Homer. 2023. "Energy-water interdependencies across the three major United States electric grids: a multi-sectoral analysis." Utilities Policy 85. PNNL-SA-175036. doi:10.1016/j.jup.2023.101673

2022

Homer J.S., K.M. Boenker, A.A. Lippert, K. Oikonomou, R.M. Tapio, and H. Corsair. 2022. Considerations for Resilience Guidelines for Clean Energy Plans For the Oregon Public Utility Commission and Oregon Electricity Stakeholders. PNNL-33277. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Considerations for Resilience Guidelines for Clean Energy Plans For the Oregon Public Utility Commission and Oregon Electricity Stakeholders
Mongird K., K. Oikonomou, J.S. Homer, and J.S. Rice. 2022. "interflow: A Python package to organize, calculate, and evaluate cross-sectoral resource interdependency data." Journal of Open Source Software 7, no. 74:4336. PNNL-SA-171534. doi:10.21105/joss.04336

2021

Barrows S.E., J.S. Homer, and A.C. Orrell. 2021. "Valuing Wind as a Distributed Energy Resource: A Literature Review." Renewable & Sustainable Energy Reviews 152. PNNL-SA-166330. doi:10.1016/j.rser.2021.111678
Cooke A.L., J.S. Homer, J.D. Lessick, D. Bhatnagar, and K. Kazimierczuk. 2021. A Review of Water and Climate Change Analysis in Electric Utility Integrated Resource Planning. PNNL-30910. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. A Review of Water and Climate Change Analysis in Electric Utility Integrated Resource Planning
Homer J.S., J.S. Rice, K. Mongird, and K. Oikonomou. 2021. Coordination and Planning for Water and Power System Resilience - Workshop Report. PNNL-31880. Richland, WA: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Coordination and Planning for Water and Power System Resilience - Workshop Report
Oikonomou K., K. Mongird, J.S. Rice, and J.S. Homer. 2021. "Resilience of Interdependent Water and Power Systems: A Literature Review and Conceptual Modeling Framework." Water 13, no. 20:Art. No. 2846. PNNL-SA-165703. doi:10.3390/w13202846

2020

Foster N., A.C. Orrell, J.S. Homer, and J.D. Tagestad. 2020. "The "Perfect Storm" for Distributed Wind Markets." Renewable Energy 145. PNNL-SA-120586. doi:10.1016/j.renene.2019.05.058
Reiman A.P., J.S. Homer, B.P. Bhattarai, and A.C. 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, DC, 1-5. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-146894. doi:10.1109/ISGT45199.2020.9087665

2018

Tang Y., T.E. McDermott, and J.S. Homer. 2018. "Summary of Electric Distribution System Analyses with a Focus on DERs." In IEEE Power & Energy Society Innovative Smart Grid Technologies Conference (ISGT 2018), February 19-22, 2018, Washington, DC, 1-5. Piscataway, New Jersey:IEEE. PNNL-SA-129203. doi:10.1109/ISGT.2018.8403382

2015

Homer J.S. 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.