Meet the team

Mehdi Shahriari
Planning and Analytics Manager

Mehdi performs quantitative analysis to support critical decisions for resource planning and portfolio management.

He devises new approaches to represent results to better support decision analysis and assimilate complex information into readily understood reports and presentations. He performs in-depth analysis of power market operations and support Peninsula Clean Energy in the areas of analytic modeling for portfolio optimization, risk management, and maintaining data systems.

Prior to joining Peninsula Clean Energy, Mehdi worked as a senior energy analyst at Ascend Analytics in Boulder, CO. His portfolio of projects includes Cost/Benefit Analysis of joining CAISO’s Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) for Turlock Irrigation District, Value of Solar Analysis for Duke Energy, and resource planning projects for Burbank Water and Power and Public Service Company of New Mexico. Mehdi received his PhD in energy and mineral engineering with a focus on energy management and policy from Pennsylvania State University. In addition, he holds master’s degrees in geographic information systems from the Pennsylvania State University and systems engineering from University of Tehran.