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San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

San Francisco Bay Area

Senior Regulatory Analyst in Policy and Planning Division. Policy and Planning Division is the CPUC's internal "think tank" to identify emerging trends and conduct cross-cutting policy analysis. Selected Projects include:* Designed Climate Change and Environmental Performance Metrics for Investor Owned Utilities* Drafted Order Instituting Rulemaking on Electric Infrastructure Undergrounding* Served as a state expert witness on Short Run Avoided Cost/Qualifying Facilities in Federal Court* California Customer Choice: An Evaluation of Regulatory Framework Options in an Evolving Electric Market

San Francisco, Ca

Energy and Safety matters to Commissioner Catherine J.K. Sandoval. Duties include advising Commissioner on voting matters, drafting concurrences and alternate proposed decisions, project manager of assigned cases, drafting speeches and presentations. Selected proceeding work includes:* Low Income Energy Efficiency and Rate Assistance Programs: Drafted a decision resulting in low income customers receiving over $1.1 billion in rate assistance to over 1.5 million Californians; the efficiency programs save the average household over $70 annually on their electric/natural gas bill* Water/Energy Nexus: Drafted a decision on "matinee rates" for commercial customers to shift electric usage to take advantage of water optimized generation consumption leading to more water available during the historic drought* San Onofre Nuclear Generation Station: worked on framework for post-settlement actions

San Francisco, Ca

Work on implementation of CPUC's Safety Action Plan, tracking safety legislation, proceedings and other administrative matters. Projects include:* Drafted CPUC emergency response management plan, including training time table and implementation * Created and implemented a monthly safety report of all Commission safety-related activities* Coordinated a commission-wide "Safety Action Plan" including initial steps to create a safety management system* Created and implemented a safety-related IT needs assessment, leading to major improvements to utility safety incident reporting databases for both natural gas and electric utilities

San Francisco

Acting Supervisor to the Risk Assessment and Enforcement Unit. The unit was the first in the country to integrate independent risk assessments into a utility's General Rate Case proceeding. The unit promotes safety by ensuring that the regulated entities integrate risk analysis into their operational, planning and other decision-making processes. The group concentrates primarily on general rate cases and other major cases to help integrate risk assessment into the Commission's regulatory process. Project and Program Supervisor for a team of 5 senior analysis and engineers. Under my supervision, the team:* Successfully oversaw the completion of the first risk assessments for the four major California energy utilities* Designed operational procedures for risk assessments for utility natural gas and electric operations* Created and implemented new resource requests for additional budgets for staffing* Hazard Analysis and Mitigation Report on Aldyl A Polyethylene Gas Pipelines

Selected Case work includes:* Energy Efficiency, including creation of rolling portfolio model for California EE Programs with over $1 Billion annual spend, creation of new on-bill repayment financing pilots to help customers pay for capital intensive efficiency measures, updated utility incentive mechanism* Energy and Large Water Utility Cost of Capital proceedings, authorizing enough rate of return to attract capital investment and simultaneously led to a monthly customer bill savings for all customers of $0.75-$1.50, from reduced return on equity * San Diego Gas & Electric Company/Southern California Gas Company General Rate Case - determination of overall revenue requirement. operational expenses, and capital investments to customers* Design of PG&E Economic Development Rate, giving load-intensive businesses an incentive to come to the service territory under qualifying conditions Serving as an energy advisor (CEA) to Commissioner Mark Ferron. More information about the Commissioner can be found at http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/aboutus/Commissioners/Ferron/index.htm

Serving as an interim energy advisor to Commissioner Mark Ferron. More information about the Commissioner can be found at http://www.cpuc.ca.gov/PUC/aboutus/Commissioners/Ferron/ferron.htm

Selected projects include:* Lead staff on comprehensive Qualifying Facilities/Combined Heat and Power matters, ending a decade of contentious litigation, adoption of a new standard offer contract, short run avoided cost methodology, transition for over 4,000 MW of efficient generation into a new state program * Member of Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reduction Team: designed framework for electric sector GHG emissions reductions strategies including rooftop solar, combined heat and power, energy efficiency, other customer programs* Ran Combined Heat and Power "AB 1613" Feed-in Tariff proceeding* Drafted CPUC's first rulemaking on electric energy storage in response to legislation

Evaluate and design program for early voluntary industry GHG reduction program in CA in compliance with AB 32

Course Introduction to Public Policy Analysis. Lead weekly discussion section for 25 students, provide course assistance, grade exams and evaluate term policy analytic papers.

Tour Guide and Student Ambassador.

California Climate Change Center - Goldman School of Public Policy. Network Analysis on government conferences, interview industry experts.

Evaluate voluntary and regulatory market for Solar RECs

Evaluating voluntary and regulatory market for Solar Renewable Energy

Division of Strategic Planning. California Solar Initiative program design support. Disbursement of funds by utility and by customer class and providing incentives to non PV technologies.

California Solar Initiative program design, including disbursement of subsidy funds by utility and by customer class

Work with Marin County to evaluate cost-effective options to reduce GHG emissions. Develop locan action plan to implement options.

Network analysis on government conferences, interview industry experts.

Masters, Public Policy

B.S. in Environmental Economics, M.P.P. in Public Policy

Bachelor’S Degree, Environmental Economics And Policy

Activities and Societies: Graduate with both Honors and College Research HonorsGraduated with Honors and College Research Honors

High School

Education record