Jim Lazar

Jim Lazar
Institute for Energy Democracy Fellow

Jim Lazar is an economist with more than 40 years of experience in utility rate making and resource planning. In his early consulting career, Jim testified in more than 100 regulatory dockets before local, state, federal, and Canadian provincial utility regulators. Then, for more than twenty years, he served as a Senior Advisor with the Regulatory Assistance Project. His RAP work involved training and technical assistance for utility regulators in the United States, Asia, Africa, and Europe, and authoring more than a dozen handbooks and guides, including Electricity Regulation in the US: A Guide, Smart Rate Design for a Smart Future, and Electric Cost Allocation for a New Era. Those publications are all available on the RAP website at no charge. He is a former member of the US DOE Electricity Advisory Committee. Jim is a former Commissioner of the Thurston County Public Utility District, an avid cyclist, and loves the mountains and rivers of the Pacific Northwest. He lives in Olympia, Washington.