Fredrich Kahrl

Fredrich Kahrl

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Bio

Dr. Fredrich (Fritz) Kahrl is managing partner at 3rdRail Inc., a research fellow at the California-China Climate Institute (CCCI), a senior advisor with the Regulatory Assistance Project (RAP), and intermittent faculty in UC Berkeley’s Master of Development Practice (MDP) Program and the University of San Francisco’s Energy Systems Management (ESM) Program. Previously, he was a director at Energy and Environmental Economics (E3) and worked at environmental think tanks and as a consultant to multilateral organizations. Dr. Kahrl's work focuses on electricity markets, renewable integration, utility resource planning, regulatory economics, transmission pricing, distributed energy resources, rate design, transportation energy, energy system modeling, and environmental economics in North America, China, India, and Europe. He received MS and PhD degrees from the Energy and Resources Group at UC Berkeley and a BA in philosophy from the College of William & Mary.