Peter S. Fox-Penner
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principal
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Washington, DC
Dr. Fox-Penner is an expert in energy and climate policy, regulated industries, and sustainable finance.
Specializing in the markets, policies, regulation, and transformation of the electricity industry, Dr. Fox-Penner has advised numerous major US energy companies, grid operators, and government agencies. He has testified on energy-related matters in more than 100 proceedings, including in front of federal courts, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), state courts, arbitrations, and at least 12 state public service commissions. Dr. Fox-Penner has also been a regulatory and strategic advisor to boards and executives at many utilities and energy companies.
With a career that has spanned consulting, senior government roles, and academia, Dr. Fox-Penner was the founding Director of Boston University’s multidisciplinary Institute for Global Sustainability (IGS) and a Professor of Practice at the university’s Questrom School of Business. He is a frequent public speaker on energy topics and the author of numerous published articles and books, including Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities (Island Press, 2010). Dr. Fox-Penner’s research – on topics such as electric power strategy, regulation, and governance – has been widely cited, including in one US Supreme Court decision.
Dr. Fox-Penner has served in various roles at Brattle, including as Office Director, board member, and the firm’s longest-serving Chairman of the Board. Outside of the firm, he previously served as a senior official at the US Department of Energy and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and as the Chief Impact Officer at a clean energy investment platform, where he currently serves as Chairman for Impact.
University of Chicago
PhD in Economics
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
MS and BS in Engineering
Personal Interests
Peter serves on a number of boards and has extensive management and advisory experience, including:
- Board of Directors, the Solar Foundation (2010-Fall 2012)
- Advisory Board, Enviance, Inc. (provider of greenhouse gas, environmental life cycle cost, and supply chain management software) (2007-present)
- Advisory Board, Gridpoint, Inc. (smart grid and energy efficiency firm) (2009-2012)
- Co-founder and Vice Chair, ENpartners LLC (greentech advisory and PE firm)
- Past Advisor to the Center for National Policy and Progressive Policy Institute (1996-2007)
Testimony
Prepared Direct Testimony on behalf of the California Parties re: the examination of two aspects of the Respondents’ spot market sales activities to CERS during the CERS Period, before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Docket No. EL01-10-085
Prepared Direct Testimony on behalf of the California Parties re: tariff violations affected MCP, before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Docket No. EL00-95-248
Before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Docket No. RM10-23-000, Filed Comments re: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Transmission Planning and Cost Allocation by Transmission Owning and Operating Public Utilities
