EDUCATION:
- Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Master of Business Administration, Tulane University
Michele has three decades of experience in the electric utility industry, with approximately twenty-five years providing consulting services in both the regulated and deregulated environments. Throughout her career Michele has provided consulting services to a wide range of industry stakeholders and their counsel including, electric cooperatives, municipal power systems, investor-owned utilities, RTOs, independent power producers, and other private parties, as well as state public service commissions and state attorney general offices. Michele’s consulting engagements have included strategic initiatives, litigation support and rate design.
Since joining GDS in the Rates & Regulatory group in 2016, Michele’s work has centered on cost of service and revenue requirements for wholesale transmission rates, all-requirements rates, and numerous reactive power and other ancillary service rate filings at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC). Michele has also provided expert testimony in several proceedings before FERC.