Arne Olson leads E3’s Integrated System Planning practice helping clients navigate changes to bulk electric system operations and investment needs brought about by higher levels of clean and renewable energy production.

He has led a number of landmark studies of the feasibility and cost of achieving deep decarbonization and high renewable penetration goals for electric utilities, including studies of 100% renewable and net zero energy systems in New England, California, the Pacific Northwest, Hawai‘i, and Atlantic Canada.

His work in electricity market design is helping modernize markets in critical areas such as resource adequacy, ancillary services, and environmental attributes. Other areas of focus include retail rate design, distributed energy resources, and electricity – natural gas coordination.

Olson has over 30 years of experience in the energy industry. He is a frequent speaker at energy industry conferences and has provided expert witness testimony in over a dozen jurisdictions. His clients include utilities, asset owners, market operators, government agencies and environmental organizations. Prior to joining E3 in 2002, he served for six years in the Energy Policy Division of the Washington State Energy Office and its successor agencies.

He holds an MS in international energy management and policy from the University of Pennsylvania and the Institut Français du Pétrole; and a BS in statistics, and mathematical sciences from the University of Washington.