Aspen is part of a two-firm team developing the first ever Integrated Resource Plan for the public utility district in Truckee, California. Aspen is providing overall leadership, support to resource contract negotiations, and developing the forecast of district electricity consumption.

Aspen has been supporting a group of municipal generators known as the Northern California Generation Coalition as they participate in three cases being heard by the Public Utilities Commission: the General Rate Case of PG&E, the Gas Cost Allocation Proceeding (GCAP) of PG&E and the PUC’s own rulemaking for long-term gas system planning issues.

Aspen’s Catherine Elder was a pro bono, independent participant in the 2022-23 North American Energy Standards Board gas-electric harmonization discussions that developed 20 recommendations to prevent a recurrence of adverse electricity and natural gas price and reliability and resiliency impacts experienced during winter storm Uri in February 2022 and Elliot in December 2022.

Aspen’s Catherine Elder was identified as an author of the Gas Decarbonization Chapter of the Energy Commission’s 2021 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR). The IEPR is produced every two years as a policy report to the California legislature.