Douglas Mackenzie | Source | Vice President, Energy Resilience at JLL
Douglas Mackenzie
Douglas Mackenzie is a Vice President of Energy Resilience in JLL's Clean Energy and Infrastructure Advisory practice. In this role, he advises public and private clients on energy and sustainability, including distributed generation, demand management, microgrids and other solutions related to ensuring sufficiency and reliability of their energy supply. Mackenzie’s nearly 10 years of experience includes working as the Director of Federal Energy Security for large engineering firm Black & Veatch, where he led the development of more than $700 million in distributed energy infrastructure projects and worked with both private and public sector clients. At JLL, Mackenzie will create and lead an energy resilience business that supports the development and implementation of distributed energy and microgrid solutions that achieve climate goals for public sector and commercial clients.
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“There’s a lot of demand in the industrial and advanced manufacturing space,” Mackenzie said. “They have very similar needs where they’re very energy-intensive. It’s hard to go find 100 megawatts of power anywhere these days. There’s a willingness to pay for energy resilience and backup power. Microgrids can not only solve power constraints on day one, they can also be a more efficient and cost effective way to solve energy, autonomy and resilience needs for those types of clients.”
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“At certain times of the day, [households] are producing more [energy] than they consume, so they can sell the excess back at a pre-negotiated rate,” said Doug Mackenzie, the vice president of energy resilience at real estate investment firm JLL. He added: “My grandmother is an amazing woman and an avid knitter; drawing a parallel that would resonate with her, I would say: It would be as if you spun your own yarn at home, made a sweater for everyone in your household and sold the excess yarn to the local market.”
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