Seth Blum is a Consultant in E3’s Integrated System Planning practice, where he focuses on resource adequacy, distribution planning and DERs, and long-term system planning. He contributes to projects analyzing electric load growth, demand-side flexibility, and resource needs, with a particular interest in emerging challenges posed by weather extremes and changing load patterns.

Before joining E3, Seth completed a Master’s in the Technology and Policy Program at MIT, where his research focused on the impacts of heating electrification on electricity loads during extreme weather events and implications for interregional transmission. Prior to graduate school, he worked in philanthropic and international development consulting, managing projects to fund machine learning datasets for under-resourced languages and precision agriculture. He also supported market transformation strategies for cooling technologies in emerging economies through work with the Clinton Health Access Initiative.

Originally from Colorado, Seth enjoys rock climbing, playing board games, and hatching increasingly elaborate schemes to use up farm share vegetables.

Education: MS, Technology and Policy, MIT; BA, Statistics and International Affairs, Washington University in St. Louis