Christine Powell

Deputy Managing Attorney Clean Energy Program

Christine Powell is the deputy managing attorney of Earthjustice’s Clean Energy Program, where she leads a team of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) practitioners who advocate to reform the wholesale electricity markets and transmission planning process to support an equitable transition to a 100% clean, affordable, and sustainable grid.

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Christine Powell is the deputy managing attorney of Earthjustice’s Clean Energy Program, where she leads a team of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) practitioners who advocate to reform the wholesale electricity markets and transmission planning process to support an equitable transition to a 100% clean, affordable, and sustainable grid.

Prior to this role, Christine served as the chief of staff to two commissioners and an administrative law judge at the California Public Utilities Commission, where she focused on clean energy policies, including building decarbonization and phasing out natural gas infrastructure. She also served as an attorney-advisor at FERC, where she advised the commission on energy markets rate design issues and transmission proceedings, including Order No. 1000 compliance filings, rehearing requests, and remand proceedings.

Christine received her undergraduate degree in accounting from Howard University, master’s in administrative studies from Boston College, and JD from Santa Clara University.

The Latest from Christine Powell

Electricity transmission lines.
August 28, 2023

FERC’s New Interconnection Rule Modernizes the Process to Bring Clean Energy Online

Reforms will make the process faster and more efficient but we still need to build more transmission.
January 5, 2022

In the News: E&E News

What to watch at DOE, FERC, Interior in 2022

“It’s no secret that the federal government has been unable to act on climate issues, or hardly at all, because of the makeup of Congress, so it’s really been left to the agencies to get work done.”