Jesse Jenkins is a renewable energy advocate, researcher, climate change activist and blogger.

Jesse graduated with a bachelor of science degree (magna cum laude) from the Robert D. Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon in 2006. In fulfillment of his honors degree, Jesse completed an undergraduate honors thesis entitled, On the Road to Replacing Oil - A Well-to-Wheels Study Exploring Alternative Transportation Fuels and Energy Sources.

He currently works with the Renewable Northwest Project, a Portland, OR-based non-profit promoting renewable energy development in the Pacific Northwest. Jesse works on renewable energy standard policy, climate policy, and voluntary green power and carbon offset markets. He also tracks the economic development impacts of renewable energy in the Northwest and provides research and analytic support for RNP's advocacy activity. Jesse recently helped win a major clean energy victory in Oregon with the passage of the Oregon Renewable Energy Act which establishes a 25% by 2025 renewable energy standard for Oregon utilities.

Jesse also works part time as a researcher and software developer for Professor Greg Bothun at the University of Oregon. He is currently working to develop a web-based, publicly-available model of energy use and emissions of vehicle fleets. The Fleet-level Energy use and Emissions in Transportation (FLEET) model builds on "well-to-wheels" studies of energy use and emissions of conventional and alternative transportation fuels and vehicles in the light-duty vehicle sector to present a model that allows users to explore the energy use and greenhouse gas emissions of an entire vehicle fleet that's composition changes over time.

In his volunteer time, Jesse sometimes moonlights as a youth climate activism organizer in Oregon and he has been an active blogger since 2005. He started WattHead in August 2005 and is now a contributing blogger at It's Getting Hot in Here, Cleanergy.org, Greenedia.com's group Climate Change blog and Cleantech Collective.

Jesse currently lives in Portland, Oregon.