Rachel Gold is a senior principal in the Carbon-Free Electricity practice. Her team’s work advances implementation of state policies that support the rapid transition to a low-carbon, resilient, and affordable electricity system. At RMI, Rachel has led research and collaboration projects on utility incentive reform, IRA implementation, responses to load growth, energy efficiency and customer engagement, and equity in program design and utility regulation. She has advised clients including regulatory commissions, consumer and environmental advocates, and large utilities.
Rachel was also on the Buildings and Electricity teams at RMI from 2015 to 2018. During that time, she managed innovative facilitation and technical assistance engagements, including the first e–Lab Summit, RMI’s support for the Solar Energy Innovation Network, and RMI’s initial post-storm efforts in Puerto Rico.
Background
Before RMI, Rachel was the utilities program director at ACEEE, leading a team that provides research, technical assistance, and convening on state energy efficiency policy, utility ratemaking, resource planning, and energy efficiency programs. There, she helped launch the Climate-Forward Efficiency Initiative to realign and scale efficiency to the climate challenge and the Leading with Equity Initiative to embed equity metrics in ACEEE’s Scorecards.
Earlier in her career, Rachel was on the regulatory affairs and market development team at Opower. She has consulted for the National Park Service, UC Berkeley Labor Center, and the California Public Utilities Commission.
Education
MPP, Goldman School of Public Policy, University of California, Berkeley
BS, Biology and Environmental Studies, Brandeis University
Location
Boulder, CO
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