Peter S. Fox-Penner
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Academic Advisor
Boston University
To contact Peter Fox-Penner, please email Jake George at Jake.George@brattle.com or call +1.617.864.7900
Dr. Fox-Penner is the Founder and Director of Boston University’s Institute for Sustainable Energy (ISE), and a Professor of Practice at BU’s Questrom School of Business, where he teaches courses on sustainable energy and electric power.
Dr. Fox-Penner’s research and writing interests are in the areas of electric power strategy, regulation, and governance; energy and climate policy; sustainable finance; and the relationships between public and private economic activity. Prior to BU, he served for over two decades as Principal and Chairman at Brattle. He has also served as a Senior Official at the US Department of Energy and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Currently, Dr. Fox-Penner also serves as a Partner and Chief Strategy Officer at Energy Impact Partners, one of the largest dedicated clean energy private equity fund groups in the world. He is on the global advisory council of the Earth Day Network and on the advisory boards for Mobility Impact Partners and the National Regulatory Research Institute’s Training Initiative. He previously was on the boards of the Solar Foundation and the Global Energy Group and served as an advisor to the Center for National Policy, the Aspen Energy Institute, the Hewlett Foundation, and other organizations.
Dr. Fox-Penner is a frequent speaker on energy topics and the author of numerous published articles and books, including the highly acclaimed Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities (Island Press, 2010) and its sequel Power after Carbon (Harvard University Press, 2020). His research has been widely cited, including in one US Supreme Court decision.
University of Chicago, PhD
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