Palak Thakur, EIT

Palak Thakur, EIT has a diverse work experience in the energy industry. They are currently working as a Senior Analyst, Grid Services at Swell Energy since February 2023. Previously, they worked at Sunrun as a Strategy and Business Intelligence Analyst from April 2021 to February 2023. In this role, they developed reports using BigQuery, DataStudio, and Tableau for Sunrun's grid services program portfolio. They also developed reports using SQL and Looker to track key performance metrics and communicated with various business and engineering functions to implement corporate reporting needs. Prior to Sunrun, Palak worked as a Senior Consultant at Guidehouse, where they conducted market research for emerging technologies and determined energy savings and market adoption strategies for various technologies.

Palak also has experience as a Corporate Strategic Planning Intern at SunPower Corporation, where they improved the capabilities of SunPower's global market prioritization model and communicated results with corporate strategy and sales teams. They also worked at BEACN as a Project Manager and VP Member Development, where they recruited professionals in the clean energy sector to mentor members and enhanced members' professional skills through trainings.

In addition, Palak worked as a Residential Energy Modeling Intern at SunPower Corporation, where they performed API requests in Python to retrieve and modify solar tariff rate structures. They also provided go-to-market strategies and modeled pricing for residential solar and storage products. They started their career as a Research Intern at Purdue University, where they evaluated the effect of a surfactant in oil-in-water emulsions.

Overall, Palak Thakur, EIT has a strong background in strategy, business intelligence, market research, and modeling in the energy industry.

Palak Thakur, EIT, completed their Bachelor's Degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering at UC Berkeley College of Engineering, from 2014 to 2018. Palak then pursued a Master of Business Administration (MBA) at California State Polytechnic University-Pomona, starting in an unknown year and anticipating completion in 2022. Before their collegiate studies, Palak Thakur attended West Ranch High School. In addition, they obtained certification as an Engineer-In-Training (EIT) from NCEES in May 2018.