Naim Darghouth

Naim Darghouth

Naïm Darghouth is an independent renewable energy research consultant and affiliate of the Electricity Markets and Planning Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research focuses on renewable energy policy and economics, with particular emphasis on distributed energy markets, retail electricity rate design, and the customer economics of renewables.

Naïm was previously a Research Scientist at Berkeley Lab, where he worked from 2009 to 2023. In addition to his US-based work, he has served as senior activity manager for USAID's Power Tunisia project and provided economic analysis on distributed solar to governments, utilities, and regulators across more than ten countries on four continents. He has published over 100 journal articles, reports, and conference papers.

Naïm holds a Ph.D. and M.S. from the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley, an M.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Georgia Tech, and a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Cornell University.

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Education

Energy and Resources, Ph.D., University of California, 2013
Energy and Resources, M.S., University of California, 2007
Electrical and Computer Engineering, M.S., Georgia Institute of Technology, 2004
Electrical and Computer Engineering, B.S., Cornell University, 2002

Awards

Spot: Naim Dargouth -  December 8th 2017

For his analysis of PV-adopter income trends.

Friend of the Program Award -  May 8th 2009

Presented to Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, in recognition of excellence and leadership in wind energy policy and market analysis, by The Wind Powering America Program at WINDPOWER 2009. At the time of the award, the renewables team included: Ryan Wiser, Mark Bolinger, Galen Barbose, Andrew Mills, Ben Hoen, Naim Darghouth, Carla Peterman, and Anna Rosa.

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