Sagal Alisalad
Assistant Researcher (she/her)
Sagal Alisalad is a Research Fellow at the Applied Economics Clinic. She has over five years of professional research experience on an array of topics, including energy efficiency in buildings, decarbonization, and environmental justice. Ms. Alisalad has held positions at AEC since 2017, and has authored reports, white papers, and policy briefs on utility regulation, energy markets, and consumer rights in the energy sector.
Prior to resuming work at AEC, Ms. Alisalad worked as a graduate student researcher at the University of California, Davis under the Energy and Efficiency Institute's Market Transformation Research Program where she focused on economic, technical, policy, and behavioral factors behind stakeholder decisions in clean energy adoption. During this time, Ms. Alisalad's research primarily focused on heat pump adoption and the availability of load flexible technologies in California. Ms. Alisalad also served as an organizer of the student-led Energy Equity Seminar Series, which invited professionals from different disciplines who incorporate energy equity in their work. While her main passion in research is environmental justice, Ms. Alisalad’s other interests include climate science, political economy, and the impact of colonial legacies in Africa.
Ms. Alisalad has a Master of Science in Energy Systems from the University of California, Davis, with a focus on Policy and Management and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and Environmental Studies from Tufts University.