Jay Griffin

Jay Griffin is the former Chair of the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (“HPUC”) and served on the HPUC from 2017-2022. During this time, the Commission led an award-winning, stakeholder engagement process to implement performance-based regulation for the state’s largest electric utility and conducted several innovative regulatory initiatives to achieve Hawaii’s clean energy goals.

Prior to serving on the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission, Griffin was an assistant researcher at the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute at the University of Hawaii. His research focused on grid integration studies of renewable energy and demonstration projects to support the state’s clean energy goals. From 2012 to 2016, he served as the Chief of Policy and Research at the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission.

Jay Griffin has a doctorate in policy analysis from the Pardee Rand Graduate School where he also served as a policy researcher from 2004 to 2009. He holds a master’s in economics from the University of California at Santa Barbara and a joint master’s degree from Duke University in public policy and environmental management. Griffin graduated from Williams College with a bachelor’s degree in political economy.