Let’s Make Your First Few Years in Energy Count
Welcome to the energy industry! Whether this is a career change or your first career, it can be overwhelming to learn about all the technologies, acronyms, and start building your network; not to mention all the other things your actual professional duties require.
Our Emerging Professionals community help you kickstart your journey. We’re here to help make your start a little less daunting. When you join, you recieve several support resources:
- Leadership Development: Programs to build leadership and management skills for career growth.
- Scholarships & Mentoring: Access to guidance from industry veterans
- Events & Resources: Year-round events and tools to help Emerging Professionals establish meaningful, lasting careers in energy efficiency and demand flexibility.
For more information or if you have difficulty logging-in, contact us at [email protected]
Joule Mentorship Program
Looking to connect with an AESP energy industry mentor or give back as a mentor yourself?
Join the Joule Mentorship Program.
AESP Emerging Leaders Institute
Ready to take control of your career in clean energy?
Join the AESP Emerging Leaders Institute (AELI) and turn your first years in the industry into a structured, high-impact growth experience.
Emerging Professionals leadership
Jared Casey
Co-chair
Associate Energy Engineer, Michaels Energy
Jared is an associate energy engineer at Michaels Energy. During his two and a half years with the firm, he has worked in both the research and evaluation and programs departments, giving him a 360-degree view of the energy efficiency program lifecycle.
In 2025, Casey was appointed as one of the first two co-chairs of AESP’s Emerging Professional Special Interest Group. He looks forward to laying the foundation for the group as it grows into a platform for emerging professionals to connect, share ideas and build community.
Grace Wroblewski
Co-chair
Senior Energy Consultant, ICF
Grace has over 4 years of consulting experience in energy efficiency, demand response, and electrification. During this time, her project experience has spanned across the stages of the DSM cycle, including market potential, planning, program design, and implementation and evaluation support. Grace has expertise in both electric and gas demand response program potential and program design as a tool for grid constraint management. Her key contributions include evaluating distributed energy resources as a tool for alleviating constraint and building resiliency and projecting program contributions to utility energy reduction goals.