About.
Grid Power Consulting is a strategic, quality energy consultancy providing expert support to project developers, technology companies, government agencies, investors and non-profits.
With significant clean energy policy and project development experience, Grid Power Consulting specializes in energy project development and permitting, requests for offer, detailed energy market analysis, regulatory and legislative strategy and advocacy, corporate and team coaching and government strategy design for entities large and small. We also have extensive experience in emissions market design, rate case and design and coalition building.
Grid Power Consulting's principal has provided expert services to the following energy companies, government agencies, trade associations and not-for-profits: Sunrun Inc., California Public Utilities Commission, First Solar Inc., Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, Clean Power Campaign, California Solar Energy Industries Association, Global Green USA, Amonix, Solar Millennium AG, MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, and Independent Energy Producers Association.
Rachel McMahon
Principal
I love solving complex issues in the energy space. I served at the California Public Utilities Commission from 2013 through 2019 as Senior Regulatory Analyst and on: created the Demand Response Auction Mechanism (DRAM), station power rules for energy storage, U.S.'s first policy on value stacking for distributed energy resources, and was a lead staff on clean energy procurements to replace conventional resources, transmission owner rate cases, and intervention to several FERC dockets on energy storage and distributed resources. From 2009 - 2013, I led state and federal in-‐house regulatory and legislative affairs on the state and federal levels for utility-scale solar energy companies. I led advocacy for a decade at the Center for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Technologies, focused on renewable energy policy, emissions regulation and implementation of the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2006. I have worked with many electric utilities, state and federal agencies, and grid operators in California, D.C. and the West.
