Professor of Civil & Environmental Engineering | CEO and Founder
Carnegie Mellon University | Peoples Energy Analytics
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Dr. Destenie Nock is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and Public Policy and Civil and Environmental Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. She is also the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Peoples Energy Analytics, a data driven company which uses energy analytics to identify energy poverty in vulnerable households. Dr. Nock is a leader in energy justice, environmental justice, sustainable energy transitions, and the energy-poverty-climate change nexus. In her current work she is developing frameworks for understanding the sustainability and equity trade-offs for different power plant investments across the US. In addition, she has pioneered new measures of energy poverty to help utility companies identify vulnerable populations and energy deficits (i.e., energy limiting behavior and forgone thermal comfort). She is also the Chief Sustainability Officer of DevvStream a carbon streaming company. Dr. Nock received her PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and two BS degrees in Electrical Engineering and Applied Mathematics from North Carolina A&T State University.
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