Lisa Frantzis is a partner in the Energy, Sustainability, and Infrastructure segment, leading work in advanced energy technologies. Prior to Guidehouse, she consulted at Arthur D. Little for 23 years in energy efficiency and clean energy. Over her 40 years of consulting experience, she has determined renewable and clean energy integration options for utility companies; identified energy program options for international government agencies; developed business strategies for energy manufacturers; and conducted due diligence for financial firms considering clean energy investments.
Lisa is also a Senior Managing Director at Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), a national association of business leaders transforming policy to accelerate the growth of advanced energy and make our energy system more secure, clean, and affordable. At AEE, she leads the Utility Advisory Committee and CEO Forums that address business model reforms and regulatory changes needed to accelerate the transition to a 21st Century Electricity and Transporation System. These initiatives convene utility executives, Public Utility Commissioners, and advanced energy companies to develop a vision for reform that is responsive to the needs of each state and drives towards concrete action.
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In New York, Lisa oversaw the filing of extensive comments in the Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) proceeding. AEE efforts in New York have had noticeable impacts on several Public Service Commission Orders in this first-in-the-nation, comprehensive proceeding.
She was asked by the President of ConEd and four other NY utility companies to facilitate meetings with a small group of solar companies to identify possible Net Energy Metering (NEM) transition pathways. In April 2016, she/AEEI were successful and the Solar Progress Partnership comprised of Solar City, SunPower and SunEdison and New York’s utilities submitted a joint filing to the NY Public Service Commission, outlining their compromise solution that set the foundation for the current discussions for the Value of Distributed Energy Resources (DER) proceeding. She continues to play a key role in the proceeding developing a successor tariff to NEM.
In New England, Lisa led a collaborative of utility companies, environmental groups, low-income advocates, large energy users, and advanced energy businesses to develop a white paper on a “Rate Design for a DER Future” for state regulators/policy makers in MA, RI, and CT.
In Pennsylvania, she led a CEO Forum and follow-on working group with AEE members on a “Performance Based Regulation” white paper that was presented to the Commission in March 2017. She and AEE members discussed ways the utility companies can be rewarded based on performance outputs vs. capital investments. The paper was submitted as part of a proceeding on alternative rate-making.
In Arizona, she helped to coordinate a corporate buyers group of Salesforce, Microsoft, Walmart, Intel, Amazon and others in discussions with the utility companies to facilitate the procurement of clean energy.
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