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Mea Halperin
Utility Finance and Accounting Expert Manager
Mea is a technical manager on RMI’s Electricity team, where she works on utility finance reform. She focuses on cost of investment, capital structure, and quantitative tools to align market incentives with decarbonization and affordability solutions for state decision makers.
Background
Prior to joining RMI, Mea spent 10 years at the California Public Utilities Commission’s Public Advocates Office (formerly the Office of Ratepayer Advocates). In that role, she led teams focused on procurement cost allocation and recovery, analyzed utility compliance with principles of economic dispatch, and developed balanced integrated resource plans, all while ensuring safe, reliable, and affordable service for California’s ratepayers.
Education
MPA, Environmental Science and Policy, Columbia University
BA, Political Science, UC Berkeley