Joe Nyangon, PhD
Senior Industry Consultant for Power and Utilities Innovation, Energy & Utilities
Industry Focus
Energy • Utilities • Oil & Gas
Expertise
Electric Power Systems • Energy Economics, Policy & Regulations • Climate Transition Risks & Scenario Analysis • Distributed Energy Resources • Electricity Market Innovation • Power Market Forecasting & Planning • Electric Vehicles & Charging Infrastructure • Asset Management • Risk Modernization • Change Management
Thought Leadership
SAS Blogs

Articles & Reports
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews | Estimating the Impacts of Natural Gas Power Generation Growth on Solar Electricity Developments: PJM's Evolving Resource Mix and Ramping Capability
- ScienceDirect | American Policy Conflict in the Hothouse: Exploring the Politics of Climate Inaction and Polycentric Rebellion
- Taylor & Francis Online | Spatial Energy Efficiency Patterns in New York and Implications for Energy Demand and the Rebound Effect
- SpringerLink | Smart Energy Frameworks for Smart Cities: The Need for Polycentrism
- Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews | An Assessment of Price Convergence Between Natural Gas and Solar Photovoltaic in the US Electricity Market
- IntechOpen | Tackling the Risk of Stranded Electricity Assets with Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence
- IntechOpen | Diversifying Electricity Customer Choice: REVing Up the New York Energy Vision for Polycentric Innovation
- LinkedIn | How Connectivity Resets the Oil and Gas Digital Transformation Agenda
- Yahoo! Finance | How New Energy Resources Affect the Global Economy
- Energy Central | How China Can Shape the Future of Carbon Markets
- Green Monitor | The US Shale Gas Revolution and Its Implications for International Energy Policy
Books
Interviews & Demos
Live & Online Events
- IIoT World's Energy Day-Demand Webinar | How to Use IIoT to Grow the Energy Storage System
- IIoT World's Energy Day-Demand Webinar | The Role of AI in Energy Management: Pragmatic Approaches, What AI Is and What It Is Not
- State Energy Conference of North Carolina | EVs in North Carolina: The Technologies Driving Deployment
Podcasts
Published Research
- SSRN | Implications of Community Solar Growth for the US Electricity Markets
- SSRN | Navigating the Changing Landscape of Community Solar: Policy Designs and Governance Frameworks to Support Community-Owned Sustainable Energy
- SSRN | Feasibility of City-Scale Solar Power Plants Using Public Buildings: Case Studies of Newark and Wilmington Delaware with Early Investigations of Bifacial Solar Modules and Dual Orientation Racking as Tools for City-Scale Solar Development
Joe's Bio
Building on more than 15 years of industry experience and academic research expertise in a variety of areas, Joe Nyangon, PhD, leads the design and development of advanced analytics solutions that drive revenue growth for the power and utilities industries. He creates and delivers innovative business, domain-driven thought leadership to differentiate SAS in the energy analytics marketplace.
Joe proactively assists clients in navigating trends that drive changes in electric power systems. In particular, he advises firms on how to use advanced technologies like artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT and analytic automation to generate insights that inform policy design, improve risk pricing strategies and guide electricity planning decisions.
Focused on improving go-to-market strategy, Joe's recent market innovations include engineering new value propositions for SAS' analytics platform. These innovations have received funding grants from the US Department of Energy, including an evaluation of regional industry clusters and energy infrastructure modernization in the southeast region of the US and techno-economic and life cycle analyses of carbon capture and storage in Texas.
Joe is a member of the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council. He has published one book and more than 60 articles in scientific journals related to his areas of research. He holds PhD, MSc, MPA and BSc (Eng.) degrees from Columbia University, the University of Delaware, the University of Greenwich and the University of Nairobi.
“I believe that achieving the cardinal elements of the fourth industrial revolution requires leaders to tackle climate-triggered grand challenges through strategic design and deployment of innovative platforms, systems and ecosystem-based business models. I am committed to assisting organizations in realizing these goals by contextualizing ML- and AI-powered risk models and decisioning solutions to create a meaningful ‘why’ and advance the business value of modernization in electricity production, transmission and distribution.” Joe Nyangon, PhD Senior Industry Consultant for Power and Utilities Innovation, Energy & Utilities US-Based