Janine Migden-Ostrander
Janine Migden-Ostrander
Institute for Energy Democracy Fellow
Janine Migden-Ostrander has over four decades of experience in the energy field. Most recently, Janine was a Principal at the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP) where she focused on regulatory issues and worked on power sector transformation. Some of her major projects included: advising and assisting the Puerto Rico Energy Bureau, from its creation in 2015 until she left RAP in 2021 on a variety of cutting-edge issues including microgrid regulations and performance incentive mechanism; assisting Arkansas develop comprehensive energy efficiency programs as part of the Clean Energy Ministerial; the Finding Common Ground Project which brought leading environmental and regulatory stakeholders together to discuss and develop pathways on regulatory issues; and many others.
From 2004ÄÐÅ®²Ù±ÆÊÓƵÈí¼þ“2011, Janine served as Ohio ConsumersÄÐÅ®²Ù±ÆÊÓƵÈí¼þ™ Counsel and represented OhioÄÐÅ®²Ù±ÆÊÓƵÈí¼þ™s 4.4 million residential households on electric, gas, telephone and water issues. In this role, Janine focused on rate affordability for all customers, the promotion of distributed energy resource options for customers, low-income customer protections, broadband for rural and disenfranchised communities; and administrative due process for consumers in the regulatory process. In her capacity as the ConsumersÄÐÅ®²Ù±ÆÊÓƵÈí¼þ™ Counsel, Janine oversaw the policy and advocacy positions in the many hundreds of cases in which the ConsumersÄÐÅ®²Ù±ÆÊÓƵÈí¼þ™ Counsel participated.
Janine worked at Enron as a Senior Director of Government Affairs where she was responsible for leading the CorporationÄÐÅ®²Ù±ÆÊÓƵÈí¼þ™s efforts to deregulate the electric and gas industry in the Midwest. This included working on legislation and regulations to implement deregulation in addition to working with the Enron business units to offer deregulated services.
During the course of her career, Janine has litigated cases involving all aspects of utility regulation for consumer and environmental groups, from rate cases to integrated resource planning.
Janine received her J.D., from Capital University Law School,in Columbus, OH, a B.A from the State University of New York, Plattsburg, New York, December and a Certificat de la Langue et Civilisation Francais from La Sorbonne, Paris.
Education:
- B.A., State University of New York, Plattsburg
- J.D., Capital University Law School