Weston Dengler is Senior Analyst, Research & Industry Strategy, Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA). Weston joined SEPA’s content team in December 2021 and supports the association’s microgrids for resilience and DER economic valuation work. Weston comes from a consulting background, where he supported utility DER program design and evaluation, emergency preparedness exercises, and energy resilience projects for a strategic and technical consultancy. He has also served in roles related to utility tracking and energy benchmarking, energy efficiency and renewable energy programs, sustainable product procurement, and demand-side management. Weston has a MA, Energy and Environment and a BA, Environmental Science from Boston University.