Mark C. Cattrell

Mark Cattrell has provided strategic, regulatory, and policy advisory services to electric and natural gas utilities, energy companies, and industry stakeholders for nearly two decades. He advises clients on a broad range of issues including:  

• Transmission planning and development
• Integrated electric and gas system planning
• Utility business model evolution
• Regulatory framework design
• Large-load and economic development policies
• Capital investment strategies
• Emerging technology deployment.  

Mr. Cattrell works closely with utility executives and regulatory stakeholders to address complex planning, infrastructure, and policy challenges while balancing customer, reliability, affordability, and public policy objectives. His experience spans utility modernization initiatives, performance-based regulatory frameworks, market design, grid transformation strategies, and regulatory proceedings involving significant capital investments. 

Additionally, he has also led engagements supporting transmission and distribution planning, integrated resource and system planning, prudent utility investment frameworks, capital project governance, and strategies for the development and recovery of major infrastructure investments. Mr. Cattrell has advised utilities on regulatory approaches related to electrification, distributed energy resources, clean energy transition policies, transmission-distribution coordination, and the accommodation of rapidly growing customer demand from large commercial and industrial loads. He is frequently called upon to help clients evaluate investment alternatives, identify and manage project risks, navigate evolving regulatory requirements, and develop strategies that align long-term infrastructure needs with regulatory and stakeholder expectations. 

Mr. Cattrell received a B.A. in Computer Science from Colby College and a Master of Public Policy degree from Georgetown University. He is a member of the Energy Bar Association, the National Association of Business Economics, and the International Association for Energy Economics.