As a Managing Director in the Energy practice, Ms. Oppel leads the Power Systems, Markets, and Pricing practice group. Her expertise includes transmission pricing and tariff development, energy market pricing, interconnection contract development and negotiation, transmission planning and design, substation design, transmission and distribution system operations, system reliability assessments, maintenance practices, capital planning, technical and economic analyses, and asset valuation.
Ms. Oppel has over 20 years of experience as a project manager and power systems engineer on projects including expansion plans, generation siting and interconnection alternatives, transmission constraint evaluation and mitigation, design, construction and maintenance of transmission and distribution facilities, and technology assessment and implementation.
Ms. Oppel has provided expert testimony on energy market structures, right-of-way valuations, capital planning and budgeting, needs assessments, good utility practices, and electric and magnetic field evaluations.
In 2009, Ms. Oppel was named "Top 25 Consultants" by Consulting Magazine.