Anya Poplavska

Anastasiya (Anya) Poplavska recently finished her fellowship term as a Science & Technology Policy Fellow at the US Department of Energy in the Solar Energy Technologies Office. Anya was on the Workforce and Equitable Access team, working full time on the National Community Solar partnership. During her time at DOE, she was able to work and lead on a variety of projects related to low-income solar access, utility engagement, distribution and transmission grid interconnection, and state policy work. Prior to her time at DOE, Anya worked on developing an EV charging proposal in rural Kansas, worked on environmental policy at the largest advocacy group in the Silicon Valley, and developed a climate action plan for the largest bottler in North America. Anya is a proud bilingual, first-generation Ukrainian American and a summa cum laude graduate from California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. In addition to her undergraduate degree, she holds professional certificates in Transmission, Power Systems Basics, Utility Finance, Benefit Cost Analysis for DER, and Energy Storage. She is passionate about regulatory and policy work in the clean energy space, and she is excited to be working on issues in the Northeast with the Acadia Center. Outside of work, she is a grassroots activist, she raises money for Ukrainian causes, plays volleyball, volunteers with mutual aid, and is learning Spanish.

apoplavska@acadiacenter.org