Alison Silverstein

Alison works independently with a variety of private and federal clients, providing advice, research, and writing on strategic, marketing and regulatory matters. Public speaking on electric transmission, electric reliability, energy efficiency, energy policy, and more. Her recent work includes:

• Co-author of U.S. Department of Energy report, "The Value of Economic Dispatch" (11/05)
• Editor of U.S. Department of Energy report, "The Benefits of Demand Response" (2/06)
• Author of report by the ISO-RTO Council, "The Value of Independent Grid Operators" (11/05)
• Author of a chapter on energy infrastructure security issues for upcoming book on homeland security and critical infrastructure, edited by Richard A. Clarke
• Author of unreleased U.S. Department of Energy report, "Preparing for the Next Blackout Investigation" (completed 5/05)
• Speeches including 2005 LSI New England conference on energy infrastructure security issues, Western Energy Coordinating Council 2005 Mid-C conference on transmission prospects, National Association of Energy Service Companies 2005 conference, World Energy Engineering Conference 2005 keynote on national energy policy, ACEEE 2004 Summer Study keynote on reliability and energy efficiency, Quanta 2004 and 2005 Utility Perspectives conferences, facilitator for George Mason University 2005 workshop on energy infrastructure and cost recovery, U.S. Combined Heat and Power 2004 on regulatory issues, U.S. Department of Energy Gridworks workshop on regulation and R&D, Gulf Coast Power Association on market power, Bonneville Power Administration's 2004 "Energizing the Northwest" conference, and testimony at FERC 2006 technical conference on demand response.

Alison has a MBA, Stanford University; MSE, Systems Analysis and Economics, The John Hopkins University, Department of Geography and Environmental Engineering; and a BA, Economics, The John Hopkins University.