NARUC Professional Development
Track: Electricity
January 27, 28, 29, 2026, 2:00 PM–4:00 PM ET each day
This course provides an overview of transmission planning, including cost allocation principles, regional and interregional planning, transmission reliability, and interconnection.
Fees:
Dues-Paying Members / Associate & Federal Members: $250
State, Federal, and International Agencies / NASUCA Members / Academia: $450
All Others: $650
Registration will open soon.
Course Outline
- Day 1: Transmission Planning
- Day 2: Interconnection & Transmission Cost Allocation
- Day 3: State Roles in Transmission (IRP, Order 1920)
Instructors
- Dr. Fredrich (Fritz) Kahrl is president of 3rdRail Inc., an affiliate in Electricity Markets and Policy at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), and a lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Goldman School of Public Policy. His expertise covers electricity markets, transmission planning and cost allocation, generator interconnection, utility resource planning, resource adequacy, ratemaking, and regulatory economics.
- Lakshmi Alagappan is a Senior Partner at E3 and leads E3’s transmission planning practice where she supports transmission owners, developers, system planners and operators, and state agencies on a wide-ranging set of issues related to transmission, including planning and needs identification, cost allocation and recovery, business case development, and regulatory strategy and policy development.
- Joseph (Joe) Rand is an Energy Policy Researcher in the Energy Markets and Planning Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Joe conducts energy policy, cost, and market analysis; spatial data analysis; and research related to social impacts and grid interconnection of energy.
- Lisa Schwartz is a Senior Energy Researcher and Strategic Advisor in Berkeley Lab's Energy Markets and Planning Department. She directs research, training, and technical assistance spanning distribution and transmission planning, grid resilience, interconnection of distributed energy resources, and utility regulation.
- Juan Pablo "JP" Carvallo is a Research Scientist in the Energy Markets and Planning department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. His research areas at the Lab focus on long-term power system planning, integration and planning of distributed energy resources, and reliability and resilience valuation.
- Liz Salemo is a Principal at GQS New Energy Strategies where she advises clients on transforming wholesale energy market rules, facilitating new transmission, and advancing generation technologies. Prior to GQS, Liz served as Lead Advisor to former FERC Chair Rich Glick where she spearheaded reforms on transmission infrastructure and interconnection queues that ultimately became Order No. 2023 and Order No. 1920.