Devi Glick

Devi Glick is an expert in utility power plant economic and resource planning practices, with a focus on how utilities can transition to a cleaner and more reliable electricity grid. Devi consultants on economic analysis and writes testimony and publications that focus on a variety of issues related to electric utilities, including power plant economics, utility resource planning practices, utility planning for large load, and utility power cost spending. Devi has submitted expert testimony and comments on unit commitment practices, plant economics, large load projections, utility resource needs, and solar valuation before state utility regulators in more than 70 dockets across more than 20 states and Canadian Provinces. In the course of her work, she develops in-house electricity system models and performs analyses using industry-standard electricity system models including PLEXOS and EnCompass utility planning software.

Devi co-authored a report on Best Practices in Integrated Resource Planning in collaboration with the Lawrence Berkely National Laboratory. Recently, her work has focused on utility planning for new data center load. This includes reviewing utility load forecasts to isolate the speculative load from the firm data center load backed by signed contracts. She also reviews utility resource plans, certificate of need dockets, and tariff applications to understand what new resource are being built to serve data center load and whether other customers are being adequately protected from the associated costs.

Prior to joining Synapse, Devi worked at Rocky Mountain Institute. As a member of the Energy Access program, Devi developed Integrated Resource Planning modeling tools and carried out trainings for the utility and energy ministry in Rwanda on best practices for long-term resource planning in the electricity sector. As a member of the Electricity Team, she co-authored papers on valuation of Solar PV and rate design for distributed energy resources that have been cited in utility rate cases.

Devi holds a Master of Public Policy and a Master of Science in Environmental Science from the University of Michigan, and a Bachelor of Arts in Environmental Studies from Middlebury College.