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Carol Friedman Energy Aggregation Administrator

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Carol Friedman Energy Aggregation Administrator

Carol Friedman, Energy Aggregation Administrator at Gabel Associates, has over 20 years of experience in developing and implementing energy procurement plans on behalf of clients, including hundreds of New Jersey’s public schools, municipalities, independent private colleges, sewerage authorities, and counties.

She undertakes complex negotiations with respect to retail transactions. She assists in load data analysis of third-party supplier bids to evaluate potential cost savings for aggregation clients and is extremely proficient at managing large volumes of data. Ms. Friedman works closely with each client to ensure that they are best served by the aggregation.

Ms. Friedman manages daily communications with clients, program participants, and utilities. This includes active involvement in key logistical issues such as account maintenance, the transition process to and from third-party suppliers, resolution of billing disputes, and savings analysis inquiries. She prides herself on the customer service and personal attention she provides to all clients.

She also interfaces with state agencies on a regular basis to ensure that public aggregation programs comply with state law and regulation.

For over 20 years, Ms. Friedman has served as the Program Coordinator for several of Gabel Associates’ aggregation programs including ACES – the Alliance for Competitive Energy Services. Gabel Associates manages the ACES program, which purchases electricity and natural gas for over 400 school districts in New Jersey.

Bojan Mitrovic, CEA & CEM Senior Associate

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Bojan Mitrovic, CEA & CEM Senior Associate

Bojan Mitrovic, Senior Associate of Technical Services, is a mechanical engineer with over 25 years of experience in commercial, public and industrial energy auditing and energy economics. His background also includes the analysis of renewable energy, combined heat and power (CHP), and energy efficiency projects.

Mr. Mitrovic is a Certified Energy Auditor (CEA) and a Certified Energy Manager (CEM). He has completed renewable and CHP feasibility studies for public and private sector clients. He evaluates projects with a critical eye towards key technical factors.

Mr. Mitrovic has also supported more than fifty comprehensive energy efficiency projects that have driven significant savings through the implementation of energy conservation measures. He is extremely knowledgeable about the complexities of building structures and is proficient at identifying a range of cost-saving options.

Mr. Mitrovic possesses specialized skills related to energy performance contracting, energy baseline determination, building modeling, energy savings plan development and review, energy star benchmarking, and measurement and verification support activities.

Brian Bizjak Senior Associate

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Eve Gabel-Frank Senior Associate

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Eve Gabel-Frank Senior Associate

Eve Gabel-Frank, Senior Associate at Gabel Associates, has expertise in environmental and transportation planning with a focus on transit planning and Geographic Information System (GIS) mapping.

Ms. Gabel-Frank is utilizing her diverse skillset to provide organizational support to ChargEVC, a coalition which seeks to advance the electric vehicle (EV) market through the development of sustainable programs and policies. She is working with a variety of stakeholders to expand EV infrastructure and programs state by state, with a current focus on New Jersey, Delaware, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania, and Maryland.

Some of her key tasks include research support for comprehensive EV studies, membership recruitment, marketing activities including maintaining an active presence on social media platforms, attending conferences, and facilitating Ride-and-Drive events. She also supports policy and regulatory matters through interaction with state agencies.

In addition, Ms. Gabel-Frank performs geographic analysis for various studies and projects. These maps include detailed analyses of demographics, road networks, and land-use suitability. These maps were used to identify EV opportunities and the optimal locations for charging infrastructure, as well as create statewide and utility service area demographic profiles.

Nicolas Freschi Senior Associate

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Nicolas Freschi Senior Associate

Nicolas Freschi, Senior Associate, has over 7 years of analysis supporting various energy-related matters including those related to large-scale data analysis, renewable energy and policy research, energy procurement, and modeling of various regional transmission organizations (RTO) markets.

Mr. Freschi has worked on both quantitative and policy analysis relating to offshore wind development. He has developed financial risk models for wind asset energy market revenues and supported research for testimony related to offshore wind. Additionally, Mr. Freschi has performed analyses in PJM, NYISO, and SPP around energy and ancillary markets and battery storage assets.

Mr. Freschi has experience in quantitative economic and energy market modeling, using a combination of external and internal tools. He has created Monte Carlo simulations of energy market scenarios as well as modeled economic impact, dispatching, and capacity auction bids for a variety of energy resources across various energy regions. He is also a key contributor to the Analytical Likelihood of Availability and Non-Performance Risk (ALAN) model, a proprietary modeling tool that computes the exposure of capacity resources within the PJM and ISO-NE footprints. ALAN uses resource outage data and expected performance assessment event information to determine the probable coincidence of outages and performance assessment events.

Mr. Freschi is also versed in modern data tools, such as Python, that allow for the consolidating, management, and analysis of large data sets. This includes iteratively testing and refining models and selecting and implementing data visualizations. Using Python, Mr. Freschi has created interactive maps and dashboards of power plant and market data and trained machine learning algorithms to predict energy and ancillary prices, among various other internal and client-facing projects.

Anthony Fiumano Senior Associate

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Anthony Fiumano Senior Associate

Anthony Fiumano, Senior Associate at Gabel Associates, supports various energy-related matters including those related to energy efficiency, renewable energy, policy research, and energy modeling.

Mr. Fiumano is utilizing his diverse skillset to assist with the study and development of a number of advanced energy solutions. These include efficiency studies; solar and other renewable energy projects; and the researching of electric vehicle market trends and development.

Prior to his role at Gabel Associates, Mr. Fiumano worked as a consultant to a New York-based engineering firm that specialized in building systems efficiency. He played a crucial role in ensuring a wide range of clients were in compliance with local regulations and various city mandates. His responsibilities included supporting lighting, HVAC, retro-commissioning, and energy efficiency projects; drafting technical reports and reviewing energy conservation measures (ECMs); performing research and calculations in relation to state and federal grant applications; conducting financial analysis, payback, and related energy saving calculations; computing benchmarking analysis; and other tasks.

Derek Hagaman Senior Associate

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Derek Hagaman Senior Associate

Derek Hagaman, Senior Associate, has over 8 years of experience in energy and utility policy-related issues. He provides support on a wide range of regional transmission organization (RTO) issues including resource adequacy, price formation, and generator interconnection processes. He also performs quantitative analysis of power market issues.

As a part of Gabel Associates’ RTO group, Mr. Hagaman engages in stakeholder affairs across several markets including CAISO, NYISO, ISO-NE, and PJM. Mr. Hagaman closely monitors market rule and policy changes made at the federal, state, and stakeholder level and analyzes the potential interaction effects on market outcomes, as well as provides strategic advice that is tailored to each client’s business interests.

Prior to joining Gabel Associates, Mr. Hagaman worked as an Energy Industry Analyst in the Office of Energy Policy and Innovation at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). In this role, Mr. Hagaman performed quantitative and qualitative analysis on proposed market rule changes and reported findings to FERC commissioners and staff.

Mr. Hagaman also served as a policy analyst on FERC Order 845 compliance and was one of the lead analysts on an internal report that monitored interconnection study deadlines following the implementation of Order 845. As part of this role, Mr. Hagaman built a database that tracked interconnection study timing relative to relevant tariff-defined interconnection study deadlines. This database served to inform FERC staff of the magnitude and trends in interconnection study delays across the country.

Bakhtawar Khan Senior Associate

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Bakhtawar Khan Senior Associate

Bakhtawar Khan, Senior Associate, provides support on a wide range of energy issues in relation to wholesale power market rules and processes. She provides support to thermal and renewable generation, load positions, energy storage resources, and transmission developers on regional transmission organization (RTO) operations, procedures, and markets.

Ms. Khan helps to translate the business and legal intricacies of RTOs into strategic planning and guidance for clients. Ms. Khan largely focuses her time on the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) where she engages in several committees and working groups that set the policy and tariff foundation for the SPP region.

In addition, Ms. Khan participates in Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO) stakeholder processes and actively monitors issues in PJM including crediting of Financial Transmission Rights, FERC Order 2222 compliance for hybrid resources, interconnection cost allocation policy and process reform, and procedural and substantive requirements for Generator Interconnection Agreements. Ms. Khan relies on her scientific and legal tools to attain effective results for power sector clients.

Prior to joining Gabel Associates, Ms. Khan attended Lewis & Clark Law School, the #1 environmental law program in the United States, where she focused her studies on renewable energy policy, electricity regulation, oil and gas law, and sustainability in the environment and business world. She also interned for WildEarth Guardians, a non-profit grassroots environmental organization, where she was involved in administrative procedure act appeals to federal agencies. Ms. Khan also worked as a judicial extern to the Honorable Ann Aiken at the United States District Court of Oregon where she worked on the first climate change litigation case brought to federal court by a group of citizens.

Weston Berg Senior Associate

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Weston Berg Senior Associate

Weston Berg, Senior Associate at Gabel Associates, has more than 11 years of experience in energy and environmental policy related issues. He provides support on energy efficiency and renewable energy projects in the form of research, analysis, and regulatory and technical assistance.

Mr. Berg is well versed in utility regulation, decarbonization planning, and energy efficiency and renewable energy project management. As part of his role, Mr. Berg provides technical assistance and stakeholder coordination support for several New Jersey utilities as they develop energy efficiency programs and plans aligned with state legislative energy savings targets and clean energy goals. His work includes tracking, coordinating, and facilitating joint utility committee efforts to align EE plan filings, program designs, and implementation processes. He also supports EE plan development and cost-benefit analyses for several individual utility EE filings.

Prior to joining Gabel Associates, Mr. Berg served as senior researcher on the state policy team at the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), where he provided research, analysis, and technical assistance across a range of energy efficiency policies and programs including utility regulation, state government-led initiatives, building energy codes, and decarbonization. Mr. Berg also led the development of ACEEE’s annual State Energy Efficiency Scorecard from 2016 to 2022 and has authored multiple research publications on topics including energy efficiency resource standards, advancing equitable access to EE programs, leveraging EE to advance clean electricity standards and climate goals, and achieving energy savings through policies and programs at the energy-water nexus. Mr. Berg also managed ACEEE’s State and Local Policy Database and provided technical assistance to utilities and state government agencies to advance best practice policies.

Belle Gabel Senior Associate

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Belle Gabel Senior Associate

Belle Gabel, Senior Associate, is active in providing support and research for various energy projects, helps develop the firm’s business plans, and serves a leading role in the firm’s community solar efforts.

Ms. Gabel assists with solar project development activities and is a participant in policy discussions related to community solar, which provides a pathway to achieve the benefits of solar energy for entities who cannot host their own solar projects. Ms. Gabel has served as a key resource in the preparation of Community Solar Pilot Program applications in New Jersey, with a focus on assisting underserved communities.

Ms. Gabel’s tasks and expertise include preparing educational materials, interacting with stakeholders, meeting with regulatory agencies to effectuate policy and change, and monitoring and attending New Jersey Board of Public Utilities meetings. She is experienced in leading communications with municipalities, community leaders, local government organizations, and non-profits.

Paul Antony Senior Associate

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Paul Antony Senior Associate

Paul Antony, Senior Associate, has more than 12 years of experience in the energy sector, with extensive knowledge of bilateral markets in the Western Electricity Coordinating Council (WECC). He provides support on a range of issues relating to wholesale power markets with a focus on resource adequacy, transmission, generator interconnection, and market development.

As part of the firm’s RTO Division, Mr. Antony undertakes timely monitoring and reporting of RTO activities and offers strategic solutions for clients by offering input and analysis on a wide range of energy issues in relation to wholesale power market rules, processes, and policy-related issues. Mr. Antony provides expert support primarily on Southwest Power Pool (SPP) matters and the developing SPP Markets+, and engages in several committees and working groups in both organizations. He also provides support on matters in the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) region.

Prior to joining Gabel Associates, Mr. Antony held roles at Xcel Energy as a Wholesale Account Analyst and Senior Accountant. His experience included managing wholesale power contracts, business segment financial analysis, customer relations, and RTO settlement services. By engaging with cross-disciplinary groups, he also led the development of distribution wheeling agreements for wholesale transactions, a fuel cost pricing alert product for customer awareness, and price sensitivity trade-off products for the optimal utilization of power supply options. Prior to his tenure at Xcel Energy, Mr. Antony worked as a financial and market analyst in the mining sector.

Mr. Antony has a decade of service with the United States Army and Army Reserve as a Psychological Operations Team Leader where he led small-unit teams providing counter insurgency operations support to combat units. His service included combat deployments to Iraq in 2004-05 and Afghanistan in 2007-08. In Afghanistan, he devised and executed operational plans utilizing open-source and human intelligence to enhance key leader engagements resulting in increased collaboration with US forces and active local resistance against enemy elements.

Kat Riley Senior Associate

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Kat Riley Senior Associate

Kathleen Riley, Senior Associate, supports a wide range of marketing and business development activities, including drafting customized proposals and qualification materials that align with client objectives and require robust intra-team collaboration. She also assists with contract negotiation processes and ongoing client relations.

Ms. Riley has been actively contributing to the field of sustainability and the environment for over a decade. She has worked in the non-profit, corporate, academic, and government sectors, bringing expertise in clean energy advocacy and policy analysis.

Prior to her role at Gabel Associates, Ms. Riley worked at a Fortune 500 company in their global legal department, where she reviewed and negotiated federal and commercial contracts for clients across five continents. Ms. Riley played an instrumental role in the RFP process, working closely with sales associates to negotiate customer non-disclosure agreements (NDAs). This keen attention to detail manifested in other policy-related positions, where she wrote all the policies and procedures for a new non-profit environmental program in accordance with applicable state and federal laws. She also played a key role in attaining federal grant funding to support program operation.

In 2018, Ms. Riley performed an extensive cross-comparative analysis between Icelandic and U.S. energy and climate policy, which focused on feasibility studies concerning electric vehicle and hydrogen fuel cell initiatives, hydroelectric power generation, and geothermal production. Ms. Riley also completed her graduate practicum in Honolulu at the Office of Climate Change, Sustainability, and Resiliency, the first government office in the U.S. to incorporate the term “climate change” in its name. She conducted a rigorous capacity analysis of all Honolulu public utilities and agencies regarding structural integrity, urban planning issues, and microgrid feasibility in the face of major tropical cyclone activity. Her research culminated into a white paper that helped to inform the Office with its first county-wide Long-Term Disaster Recovery Plan.

Sarah Yasutake Senior Associate

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Sarah Yasutake Senior Associate

Sarah Yasutake, Senior Associate, has more than three years of experience on energy and related policy issues. She provides support on a wide range of energy issues in relation to wholesale power market rules and processes.

As part of the firm’s Regional Transmission Organization (RTO) Division, Ms. Yasutake undertakes monitoring and reporting of RTO activities. She helps to translate the business and legal intricacies of RTOs into strategic planning and guidance for clients. Ms. Yasutake largely focuses her time on PJM and engages in several committees and working groups. In addition, Ms. Yasutake also provides support in the Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO) space.

Prior to joining Gabel Associates, Ms. Yasutake practiced energy law at an energy law firm in Portland, Oregon. In her role there, she represented energy customers and public utilities in state and federal regulatory and civil litigation proceedings. She also researched issues to provide legal advice to the client regarding ongoing FERC compliance filings.

In addition, Ms. Yasutake has also played a significant role in energy-related litigation.

Isla Kennedy Senior Associate

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Isla Kennedy Senior Associate

Isla Kennedy, Senior Associate, has extensive experience supporting energy issues related to renewables and energy efficiency, tariff analysis, EV charging, building decarbonization, and environmental commodities. She has also intervened and written direct testimony in regulatory matters related to transportation electrification.

She currently supports the firm’s Regulatory, Analytics, and Modeling team on a wide range of activities, including research, analysis, and forecasting of energy-related matters.

Before joining Gabel Associates, Ms. Kennedy was a Utility Policy Coordinator on the regulatory policy team of a large EV charging company, which was tasked with crafting and advocating for policies that enable transportation electrification through the development of the EV charging market. During this time, she led policy tracking and analysis across 20 eastern states. She also intervened in regulatory proceedings totaling $150M+ in utility EV charging funding across rate cases, grid modernization plans, electric security plans, and EV-specific utility program proposals. She wrote 20+ sets of direct testimony and formal comments and analyzed tariffs, focusing on promoting rate design principles that support transportation electrification.

During her time as a Project Manager with ASHRAE’s government affairs team, she served as the primary staff liaison for the organization’s development of its first global building decarbonization standard focused on net zero energy and net zero carbon. She also worked directly with four federal agencies and the World Health Organization (WHO) on tailored pathways for implementing federal Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) funding and strategies for implementing building decarbonization and indoor air quality.

Ms. Kennedy has additional experience with environmental commodities from her time as a solar renewable energy certificate (SREC) Operations Analyst with a solar energy company. During that time, she registered thousands of customers’ solar systems for SREC eligibility through twelve public utility commissions, aggregated and minted 20K+ residential and C&I customers’ SRECS through the PJM Generation Attribute Tracking System (GATS) and other state REC authorities, and provided data visualization to senior leadership using Excel, SQL, and Power BI. She additionally conducted policy research on the low carbon fuel standard (LCFS) market, providing the company with its foundational policy knowledge for market entry.

During her graduate program, she studied qualitative and quantitative methods to bridge the gap between clean energy technology and engineering solutions and policy decision-making. Her coursework on analytic methods for policy involved writing clean energy policy memos and providing data visualization using the R platform.

Throughout her dissertation, she consulted with UNESCO on key science, technology, and innovation policy recommendations for the deployment of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She conducted desktop research, synthesizing academic and policy literature focused on clean energy and sustainable cities – most specifically policies and models that enable the scaling of distributed energy resources (DERs). She additionally led 20+ interviews with senior United Nations policy officers across ten different countries that focused on best practices for policy decision-making. Those findings were compiled into an 80-page report that was presented to United Nations senior government stakeholders. The report was ultimately utilized in the United Nations’ deployment of roadmapping clean energy strategies to achieve the SDGs.

David Zito Senior Associate

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David Zito Senior Associate

David Zito, Senior Associate, has over 5 years of experience in energy, utility regulation, and state policy development. He possesses a deep understanding of the utility regulatory environment and customer incentives.

Mr. Zito provides support on a wide range of energy issues in relation to wholesale power markets, regional transmission organization (RTO) processes, and policy-related issues. He largely focuses his time on the Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO) and Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) stakeholder and policy processes.

In addition to participating in MISO and ERCOT committee/stakeholder meetings, Mr. Zito serves as a state regulatory expert for the firm. He is engrained in energy transition, resource adequacy needs, energy sufficiency, and interconnection issues. Additionally, he assists clients in understanding how wholesale market issues impact state policy and retail rates, as well as how state policies can drive change in wholesale markets.

Before joining Gabel Associates, Mr. Zito worked at the Louisiana Public Service Commission (LPSC) as Chief of Staff to Commissioner Craig Greene. During this time, he served as a senior advisor to Commissioner Greene on policy matters, as well as collaborated with stakeholders and regulators at the LPSC, MISO, Southwest Power Pool (SPP), and Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Mr. Zito directed policy and political strategy on behalf of the Commissioner, which required frequent engagement with the public to advocate for specific positions and policies. Additionally, he provided analysis on a multitude of different issues including utility ratemaking, resource adequacy, demand-side resources, and utility customer programs.

Mr. Zito’s regulatory and legislative background is also bolstered by his past work as a Legislative Analyst for the Fiscal Division of the Louisiana House of Representatives. He supported members by researching, drafting, and amending law, as well as oversaw the intake, review, organization, and processing of all judgments against the State of Louisiana. In addition, he collaborated with House leadership and fiscal staff to create effective legislation.

Silvia Cuevas Senior Associate

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Silvia Cuevas Senior Associate

Silvia Cuevas, Senior Associate, has more than 6 years of professional experience in urban planning, specifically in the transportation sector.

As part of the Advanced Energy Solutions division, Ms. Cuevas supports project development activities for renewable energy, energy efficiency, and other sustainability projects. She provides marketing and business development support, assists with the administration of procurement processes, coordinates and monitors project activities, facilitates client interaction, and develops creative and customized solutions to meet client needs.

Prior to joining Gabel Associates, Ms. Cuevas began her planning and sustainability career at The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey (Agency). In 2019, she joined the Agency’s Leadership Fellows Program, a distinguished program for leadership and public service in the New York/New Jersey Metropolitan region. During her tenure, she worked for the Office of the Secretary and was responsible for assisting the Agency’s departments in receiving final authorization for projects and programs from Agency executives and the Board of Commissioners.

In addition, during her rotation with the Aviation Department, she supported the Newark Liberty International Airport AirTrain Replacement Program. Specifically, she assisted in developing and revising the Environmental Assessment for submission to the Federal Aviation Authority.

Most recently, she worked for the Agency’s Rail Transit Department (PATH) and was responsible for performing quantitative and qualitative analyses of rail operations to identify delay and incident trends. She managed the performance metrics across the department to align strategic and innovative solutions with an international benchmarking group, while advising PATH executives on enhancing data-driven decision-making across operations, including labor analyses and resource management.

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