Jessica Valentine is an Engineer for Duquesne Light Company’s Advanced Grid Solutions team, where she leads battery energy storage pilot projects, electrification analyses, and other grid modernization projects. She also manages DLC’s funding opportunity program, with a focus on pursuing grants to accelerate improvements to electric infrastructure across the service territory. Prior to Duquesne Light, Jessica was a contractor for National Energy Technology Laboratory, where she developed energy systems analyses for novel energy processes, like hydrogen power plants, carbon capture, and energy storage. She has over five years of energy sector experience and is a chemical engineering graduate from the University of California at Santa Barbara. Her current areas of interest are utility scale energy storage, electrification, and community resiliency.