Michele Chait

Michele Chait is an electricity sector professional with nearly 30 years of experience.   Her expertise focuses on the nexus of asset valuation, finance, utility business models, and utility rate design.  This work integrates multi-disciplinary factors such as regulatory structure, policy, wholesale market operations, and asset techno-economic characteristics.  She is frequently engaged as an expert witness in utility rate case proceedings.   

Michele has consulted on electricity issues for over 15 years and is currently an independent consultant.  She also worked for a decade in international and domestic power project development and finance, witnessing firsthand the benefits that successful infrastructure projects can bring in terms of promoting economic growth and demonstrating a stable legal, financial, and regulatory climate that can sustain future investment in developing countries.    

As an Adjunct Professor, she co-teaches the Renewable Energy Finance course in USF’s Energy Systems Management program and greatly enjoys sharing this foundational knowledge with her students.

• Asset valuation
• Utility rate design
• Utility business models
• PPA structuring
• Distributed energy resource economics

• University of Chicago, MBA, 1998
• UC Berkeley, BA in Mathematics and Middle Eastern Studies, 1988

• President, Chait Analytics Corp.
• Director, Energy & Environmental Economics (E3)