Jackson Associates
Jerry Jackson, President
Jackson Associates
P.O. Box 12340
College Station, Texas 77842
979-204-7821
jjackson@maisy.com
Since 1982, Jackson Associates (JA) has provided utility customer information and applied economic research and analysis to energy-related government and private organizations. Jackson Associates (JA) provides support to clients in nearly every facet of the energy industry. JA started as an energy modeling and forecasting service for electric and gas utilities, state energy offices, regulatory agencies, power pools, and federal government agencies. JA energy and load forecasting models integrate econometric and engineering analysis in a microsimulation process that reflects both behavioral relationships and detailed technology information. This agent-based modeling approach reflects the newest generation of energy models and is especially relevant as utilitiies and policy-makers develop and assess energy-efficient programs.
JA introduced the Utility Customer Market Analysis and Information System (MAISY) Databases in 1995 providing hourly energy use, psychographic and firmographic data on electric utility customers in individual utility markets and states. Compiled from a variety of public and private data sources and now based on more than two million individual utility customer records, these databases are the only commercially available, statistically representative, source of utility customer energy use and hourly load data. MAISY Databases are an industry standard for new energy technology companies, competitive energy providers, regulated utilities, regulatory agencies, state and federal energy agencies and private companies. Jerry Jackson received a patent for the MAISY visual drill-down and data visualization process in 1999. Database clients include electric utilities, competitive energy providers, energy service companies, research organizations, government agencies and a variety of equipment manufacturers including Carrier, United Technologies, Toyota, and Ingersoll-Rand as well as new energy technology start-up companies developing fuel cells, cool storage, electric energy storage and other technologies.
JA clients include more than 20 fortune 500 companies, as well as start-up companies, electric and gas utilities, energy service companies, state agencies, research labs, and the US Department of Energy. A sample of JA clients is provided in the Clients page of this Web site.
Jerry Jackson, president of Jackson Associates, serves as the principal investigator on all JA projects. His expertise in energy modeling and forecasting and model data development is widely recognized. Dr. Jackson developed the first commercial end-use model at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in 1976 and provided the initial version of the EPRI COMMEND model in 1982 and the initial commercial sector version of the Department of Energy's NEMS model.
As a pioneer and active practioner in energy modeling, forecasting and analysis, Dr Jackson is often called on to provide expert evaluations and advice. His recent activities in this area range from a his role as an expert witness conducting comprehensive analysis of residential, commercial and industrial forecasting adequacy for the provincial electric utility regulatory agency in New Brunswick to presentation of policies to enhance commercial buildings energy efficiency at a European Commission conference in Frankfort, Germany in April 2008 to an invitation to join a 30-member United Nations Energy Expert Working Group Meeting on Industrial Energy Efficiency in September 2008 to draft a UN position paper on energy efficiency recommendations for the post-Kyoto agreement. He speaks frequently on energy efficiency, energy policy, and sustainability issues in the US and international forums.
He has experience in a wide variety of energy-related applications. He recently developed profit scoring models and provided support in developing a profit-maximizing mass market strategy for the deregulated subsidiary of one of the largest utilities in the Southwest; he supported a major fuel cell manufacturer in a national market potential assessment and he developed a strategic plan to implement a revenue management system at a municipal utility incorporating rate design, demand response, ESCO activity, wholesale market strategies, DG and other activities in a simultaneous revenue optimization process.
His recently published book Energy Budgets at Risk (EBAR): Risk Management Approach to Energy Purchase and Efficiency (Wiley, April, 2008) provides a new risk management approach to evaluate energy efficiency investments extending financial risk management principles to address energy efficiency investment decision. He was recently appointed to the board of editors for the first academic journal on sustainable real estate published by the American Real Estate Society and he publishes regularly in academic and trade journals
He speaks frequently on energy efficiency, energy policy, and sustainability issues in US and international forums. He has served in advisory and modeling project roles to energy regulators and policy makers in the states of California, Indiana, New York, Texas, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Michigan and Washington, and to the US Department of Energy and its national laboratories. He has been both an active participant and an advisor and reviewer for the Department of Energy's appliance efficiency program.
Dr. Jackson is an expert on new energy technologies and their diffusion in the market. He has assisted leading US, Asian and European technology companies in analyzing and evaluating new technology markets, new product design, and market strategy development. He is actively involved in development and analysis issues related to fuel cells, microturbines, combined heat and power, cool storage, flywheel, demand response and other new energy technology systems. His technology clients include companies such as United Technologies, Ingersoll Rand, Toyota, Aisin and other equipment manufacturers.
He has served as a consultant to the California Energy Commission, the Electric Power Research Institute, Washington State University, Colorado School of Mines, the Solar Energy Research Institute, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, the states of Colorado, Indiana, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Texas and several dozen utilities. At DOE's request, he conducted a series of focus group sessions to help guide future DOE data collection and database development. He has also served as a consultant to DOE on various database and data development issues.
Dr. Jackson is widely published in both academic and industry publications including Public Utilities Fortnightly, Electrical World, Energy, Energy Business and Technology, Energy Policy , Review of Economics and Statistics, Land Economics, Journal of Business Administration, Journal of Urban Economics and Journal of Risk and Insurance. Additional research has been published in dozens of technical reports for clients.
Dr. Jackson holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Florida with specialties in econometrics and regional economics.