Bethel Tarekegne

Bethel is a systems engineer at PNNL with a research focused on understanding the social impacts of renewable and distributed energy systems. She currently leads research projects on energy equity and justice (EEJ) and energy storage solutions. In addition to technology-based EEJ studies, she leads broad EEJ efforts including advancing the application of EEJ in power systems and grid planning through electric utility technical assistance, integrating EEJ values in coal power plant redevelopment and community revitalization processes, and assessing EEJ impact projections on national decarbonization scenarios.