Jeremy Kasper Named ACEP Director

March 20, 2023

Jeremy Kasper has been named the director of the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Center for Energy and Power. Photo by Jeff Fisher.
Photo by Jeff Fisher.
Jeremy Kasper has been named the director of the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Center for Energy and Power.

Jeremy Kasper has been named director of the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ Center for Energy and Power. Since May 9, 2022 when ACEP founder Gwen Holdmann stepped down to take the role of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ associate vice chancellor of research for Innovation and industry partnerships, Kasper has been serving as the interim director.

After graduating from Reed College in 1999 with a bachelor of arts in physics, Kasper moved to Fairbanks in 2000. After stints with the UA  and the  at ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ, he started his PhD at the ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ . He received a doctorate in oceanography in 2010 and conducted postdoctoral research at ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ’s  before an appointment as a postdoctoral investigator at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution’s .

In 2012, Jeremy returned to ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ as a research assistant professor with ACEP. In 2014, he became the director of the  which included developing ACEP’s . Under his leadership, hydrokinetic research expenditures at ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ have more than doubled and AHERC merged with the U.S. Department of Energy designated Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center to create the Pacific Marine Energy Center, a consortium between ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ, Oregon State University and the University of Washington and a global leader in marine energy research.

Since assuming the role of interim director in 2022, Kasper helped ACEP to grow to a team of 75 faculty, staff, and students and helped to bring in new funding totalling $10.7 million. Kasper’s vision for ACEP’s future is, through applied renewable energy and distributed energy research, to improve the quality of life and community resilience of ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñns. 

Kasper is proud of the past and current hard working team at ACEP that is helping to bring the organization recognition as a leading research institute, a trustworthy and reliable partner to ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ utilities, communities and private stakeholders, and a steward and transformer of how UA and ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ research supports ÃÛÌÒÓ°Ïñ.