Zachary Birnholz
Clean Energy Senior Specialist at Terra.do
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Birnholz is a clean energy specialist with nine years of experience combining technical analysis, market operations, and education to accelerate decarbonization. Currently on Con Edison’s Distribution Planning and Analytics team, he leverages distributed resource integration to defer capital projects and reduce electricity rate pressure. His background includes managing and scaling demand-response programs at Voltus, modeling carbon removal economics, and building optimization tools in Python—skills he distills into clear guidance for operators and stakeholders. A practiced instructor and course creator for Terra.do and Stanford programs, he blends rigorous engineering training (M.S. and B.S. from Stanford) with a knack for teaching complex quantitative concepts to diverse audiences. Notably, he has driven substantial customer performance improvements and supported 20x customer growth through data-driven tooling and market-savvy program management.
9 years of coding experience
Harvard-Westlake SchoolM.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering - Atmosphere/Energy program, M.S., Civil and Environmental Engineering - Atmosphere/Energy program at Stanford University
English, GermanProgramming languages (2)
Github contributions (4)
stanfordcalypso/calypso-website
May 2017 - Jun 2019
Contributions:35 commits, 35 pushes in 2 years 1 month
zbirnholz1/Text-Adventure
May 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:7 pushes in 9 months
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