Alison Silverstein

Alison Silverstein works as a consultant, lecturer and writer on electric transmission and reliability, infrastructure security, energy efficiency, demand response and technology adoption issues. She serves as a member of the U.S. DOE’s GridWise Architecture Council.

Silverstein worked as Senior Energy Policy Advisor to Chairman Pat Wood, III, at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from July 2001 through July 2004. She advised the Chairman on legal, economic, strategic and administrative issues spanning the agency’s electric, hydro, and pipeline responsibilities.

She served as the agency’s lead on infrastructure security, cyber-security and energy reliability and co-chaired the Electric Systems Investigation for the US-Canada Joint Power System Outage Task Force and is principal author of the Interim and Final Blackout Reports. Before moving to the FERC, she worked as Advisor to Chairman Wood at the Public Utility Commission of Texas from 1995-2001, covering both electricity and telecommunications matters.