Ben Hertz-Shargel

Ben leads research across electrification, data centres, grid modernisation, distributed energy resources and virtual power plants. He came to Wood Mackenzie from Rhythm, a retail clean energy provider, where he was Head of Data Science and Demand Management.

Prior to that Ben was Vice President, Advanced Grid Services and Analytics at EnergyHub, where he was responsible for analytics within the company’s distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) and energy market operations.

Ben is a Nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council Global Energy Center and serves on the external Advisory Committee of the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation’s Energy and Environment Program and the Advisory Committee for the Pew Charitable Trusts’ DER policy initiative.

Education

PhD, Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles

MS, Mathematics, Courant Institute, New York University

BA, Computer Science, Northwestern