Laurie Oppel is a Managing Director at Navigant Consulting, Inc., managing the Energy Practice’s Litigation, Regulatory, and Markets group. She has approximately 20 years of experience as a trusted advisor, project manager, and team contributor for major domestic and international electric utilities and industrials. Her expertise includes: energy market pricing and policy development, transmission pricing and tariff development, transmission policy formulation, interconnection contract development and negotiation, transmission planning and design, transmission and distribution system operations, system reliability assessments, capital planning, technical and economic analyses, and asset valuation and transactions. Ms. Oppel has provided expert testimony on various transmission issues and asset valuations, including: energy market structures, damages resulting from construction or operational disputes, right-of-way valuations, capital planning and budgeting, needs assessments, good utility practices, and electric and magnetic field evaluations.