Josh Schellenberg

Josh Schellenberg

Josh Schellenberg is an Affiliate in the Energy Markets & Policy Department. With over 16 years of consulting and policy experience in the electric utility industry, Josh supports the development of rigorous plans and cost-effectiveness analyses that provide clear insight into investment options and enable sound decision-making. His areas of expertise are:

• Resilience Planning: Including plan review and cost-effectiveness analyses for utility resilience plans and major transmission investments designed to mitigate the risks of climate change, natural disasters, physical security and other threats

• Value of Reliability: Including development of LBNL's national interruption cost model and Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator, which have informed over $50 billion of grid modernization investments

• Demand Flexibility: Including studies of 20+ pilots and programs that have involved traditional demand response as well as more advanced models/technologies (distributed energy resources, electric vehicles, energy storage, dynamic pricing and ISO market integration)

Josh holds an MBA from The Wharton School and an M.A. in International and Development Economics from the University of San Francisco.

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Publications

2025

Grid Resilience Planning for Wildfires: Western Region Training for Public Utility Commissions and State Energy Offices

Authors: Collins, Myles T, and Josh A Schellenberg.
03/2025

Bridging the Gap on Data, Metrics, and Analyses for Grid Resilience to Weather Events: Information that utilities can provide regulators, state energy offices, and other stakeholders

Authors: Collins, Myles T; Matia Whiting; Josh A Schellenberg, and Lisa C Schwartz.
01/2025

Clean Air as a Bonus for Achieving Energy-Related State Goals: A Review of Policies and Programs in 15 States

Authors: Schwartz, Lisa C; Natalie Mims Frick; Grace Relf; Ted Light; Josh A Schellenberg, and Alan H Sanstad.
01/2025

Moving Beyond Direct Load Control: A Maturity Model for Realizing the Promise of Demand Flexibility

Authors: Schellenberg, Josh A, and Natalie Mims Frick.
01/2025

2024

State Requirements for Electric Distribution System Planning

Authors: Schwartz, Lisa C; Natalie Mims Frick; Sean Murphy; Guillermo Pereira; Grace Relf; Jessica Shipley, and Josh A Schellenberg.
12/2024

Clean Energy Innovator Fellows Training: Grid Resilience Planning

Authors: Krishnamoorthy, Gayathri; Tom Wall; Myles T Collins, and Josh A Schellenberg.
09/2024

Grid Resilience Plans: State Requirements, Utility Practices, and Utility Plan Template

Authors: Schellenberg, Josh A, and Lisa C Schwartz.
07/2024

Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience

Authors: Frick, Natalie Mims; Lisa C Schwartz; Julieta Giraldez; Cody Davis; Samir Succar; Ronny Sandoval; Gayathri Krishnamoothy; Tom Wall; Josh A Schellenberg; Peter H Larsen, and Neil Weisenfeld.
03/2024

Western Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience

Authors: Frick, Natalie Mims; Lisa C Schwartz; Julieta Giraldez; Cody Davis; Samir Succar; Ronny Sandoval; Sara Peterson; Tom Wall; Stephen Torres; Juan Pablo Carvallo; Nichole L Hanus, and Josh A Schellenberg.
01/2024

2023

Eastern Regional Training: Planning for Distribution Systems, Distributed Energy Resources, and Resilience

Authors: Schwartz, Lisa C; Natalie Mims Frick; Julieta Giraldez; Cody Davis; Samir Succar; Ronny Sandoval; Eliza Hotchkiss; Josh A Schellenberg; Tom Wall; Peter H Larsen; Nichole L Hanus, and Jane Frantz.
11/2023

2018

Estimating Power System Interruption Costs: A Guidebook for Electric Utilities

Authors: Sullivan, Michael J; Myles T Collins; Josh A Schellenberg, and Peter H Larsen.
07/2018

Changes to the Underlying Econometric Models for the Interruption Cost Estimate (ICE) Calculator

Authors: Schellenberg, Josh A, and Peter H Larsen.
03/2018

2016

Integrating customer interruption costs into outage management systems

Authors: Schellenberg, Josh A; Barney Speckman, and Joseph H Eto.
07/2016

2015

Using Customer Reliability Benefits to Support Business Cases for Smart Grid Investments

Authors: Schellenberg, Josh A.
10/2015

Updated Value of Service Reliability Estimates for Electric Utility Customers in the United States

Authors: Sullivan, Michael J; Josh A Schellenberg, and Marshall Blundell.
01/2015

2014

Incorporating Customer Interruption Costs into Reliability Planning

Authors: Schellenberg, Josh A; Michael J Sullivan, and Joseph H Eto.
05/2014

2010

How to Estimate the Value of Service Reliability Improvements

Authors: Sullivan, Michael J; Matthew G Mercurio; Josh A Schellenberg, and Joseph H Eto.
07/2010

2009

Estimated Value of Service Reliability for Electric Utility Customers in the United States

Authors: Sullivan, Michael J; Matthew G Mercurio, and Josh A Schellenberg.
06/2010