Jerrold Oppenheim, is an independent consultant and attorney who has advised and represented on consumer, labor, and low-income interests (including to public utilities) for more than 35 years. A graduate of Harvard College and Boston College Law School, he led utility litigation for Attorneys General in New York and Massachusetts; for Legal Services in Boston, Chicago and New York City; and for the National Consumer Law Center. He was the founding Director of Renewable Energy Technology Analysis at Pace University Law School and is a member of the Center for Public Utilities Advisory Council, New Mexico State University. Mr. Oppenheim has worked with legislatures and public utility commissions in several states to develop – in both restructured and traditional regulatory settings – consumer and low-income protections; service quality standards; and program funding for efficiency, renewables, and low income affordability. Pioneering examples include negotiated gas and electricity efficiency agreements; a low-income renewables program; arrearage management agreements; and low-income rate plans. Mr. Oppenheim also successfully argued precedent-setting regulatory cases, including requiring need as a basis for construction of a power plant, economics as a standard for utility cost recovery, and reform of operational and long-term capacity planning for regional generation
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