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Michael Mendelsohn

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Michael Mendelsohn is a member of the Market and Policy Impact Analysis Group in the Strategic Energy Analysis Center.

Senior Financial Analyst
On staff since February 2009
Phone number: 303-384-7363
E-mail: michael.mendelsohn@nrel.gov

Areas of expertise

  • Renewable energy financing
  • Loan Guarantee program
  • Treasury Grant program
  • Utility-scale solar development
  • Electric vehicle deployment and cost-effectiveness

Primary research interests

  • Improving government incentives to stimulate RE development
  • Costs and benefits of wide-scale EV deployment
  • Comparison of international incentives
  • Distributed storage

Education and background training

  • M.S. in energy management and policy, U. Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 1990
  • B.A. in computer science, Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, 1987
  • Certificate in finance, Suffolk University, Boston, MA, 2000

Prior work experience

  • Senior Energy Analyst, Western Resource Advocates, Boulder, CO
  • Senior Consultant, Levitan & Associates, Inc., Boston, MA
  • Economist III, MA Department of Public Utilities, Boston, MA

Personal interests/hobbies

Cycling, hiking, rock climbing