Courtney Eichhorst is a Lead Analyst in National Grid’s Regulatory Strategy group, focused on developing and delivering strategies for the ‘utility of the future’. Courtney lead the development and implementation of new performance incentives in the company’s upstate New York business called earnings adjustment mechanisms (EAMs), including a novel Beneficial Electrification metric which creates incentives for National Grid to stimulate electric vehicle and heat pump adoption. Interested in how to address carbon emissions in the largest emitting sectors in the Northeast, transportation and heat, she also worked on benefit-cost analyses for EV and heat pump programs and worked on developing a heat electrification strategy for National Grid’s US service territories. Prior to National Grid, Courtney was a Climate Corps Fellow with the Environmental Defense Fund and worked as a Research Assistant at Boston University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy. She earned her MBA from Boston University, with a focus in Energy and Environmental Sustainability, and BS in Economics from Purdue University.