| STAFF PROFILE
Karen
Herter, Ph.D.
- Associate
Director
 Dr.
Herter is an Associate Director at HMG, specializing in demand response
technologies and pricing strategies, policy analysis, standards
development, field studies and evaluation. Before joining HMG, Dr.
Herter was a principal research associate at Lawrence Berkeley National
Laboratory's Environmental Energy Technologies Division. She worked for
six years as a consultant to staff and commissioners at the California
Energy Commission, and continues to be an active member of the Demand
Response Committee headed by Commissioner Art Rosenfeld.
Dr. Herter currently manages several HMG
projects involving demand response technologies, programs, and evaluation.
She is the project manager for the California Demand Response Potential
study under the guidance of the California Public Utilities Commission,
the Energy Commission, and the three investor-owned utilities. She is also
leading the implementation of a pilot at the Sacramento Municipal Utility
District investigating the behavioral aspects of involving small
commercial customers in demand response programs. Outside the DR realm,
Karen manages the day-to-day operations of the Governor’s Benchmarking
initiative under Executive Order S-20-04, which involves coordination
between the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, all
California
energy utilities, and over 30 State departments.
Dr. Herter earned her Ph.D. in Energy and
Resources from the University of California at Berkeley in 2006. She also
holds an M.S. in Environmental Studies and B.A. degrees in both
Mathematics and Psychology. Recent publications include two separate
analyses of California Statewide Pricing Pilot data: one of load impacts
(Energy, January 2007) and the other, policy implications (Energy Policy,
April 2007), of critical peak pricing in the residential sector.
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