Joe Goodenbery is a Senior Manager at Strategen, where he provides project management, economic analysis, and technical expertise for engagements involving decarbonization strategy, resource planning, emerging technologies, and economy-wide implications for the transition to a clean energy future. He has extensive experience in capacity expansion and production cost modeling for the electric grid, economic impact and job creation studies, wholesale electricity markets, and environmental policy analysis.
Prior to joining Strategen, Joe served as the Lead Economist at NRECA, where he specialized in strategic analysis, market dispatch modeling, economic impact and contribution studies, broadband benefits estimation, and the role of cooperative utilities and their communities in the broader economy. He previously held positions at FTI Consulting and LECG, where he provided economic consulting and litigation support for wholesale electricity market design and market power issues in NYISO, CAISO, PJM, MISO, and ERCOT, and probabilistic cost analysis to estimate environmental damages.
Joe holds a master’s degree in Environmental Economics from the University of Georgia and a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Ithaca College.