Bakhtawar Khan

Bakhtawar Khan, Senior Associate, provides support on a wide range of energy issues in relation to wholesale power market rules and processes. She provides support to thermal and renewable generation, load positions, energy storage resources, and transmission developers on regional transmission organization (RTO) operations, procedures, and markets.

Ms. Khan helps to translate the business and legal intricacies of RTOs into strategic planning and guidance for clients. Ms. Khan largely focuses her time on the Southwest Power Pool (SPP) where she engages in several committees and working groups that set the policy and tariff foundation for the SPP region.

In addition, Ms. Khan participates in Midwest Independent System Operator (MISO) stakeholder processes and actively monitors issues in PJM including crediting of Financial Transmission Rights, FERC Order 2222 compliance for hybrid resources, interconnection cost allocation policy and process reform, and procedural and substantive requirements for Generator Interconnection Agreements. Ms. Khan relies on her scientific and legal tools to attain effective results for power sector clients.

Prior to joining Gabel Associates, Ms. Khan attended Lewis & Clark Law School, the #1 environmental law program in the United States, where she focused her studies on renewable energy policy, electricity regulation, oil and gas law, and sustainability in the environment and business world. She also interned for WildEarth Guardians, a non-profit grassroots environmental organization, where she was involved in administrative procedure act appeals to federal agencies. Ms. Khan also worked as a judicial extern to the Honorable Ann Aiken at the United States District Court of Oregon where she worked on the first climate change litigation case brought to federal court by a group of citizens.