Jairam Gopal — CEO
Dr. Jairam Gopal is the Lead Gas Analyst at Energy Exemplar leading natural gas, LNG and power modeling and market analytics. He worked at Deloitte from 2013 2020, managing fundamental energy models and advisory services, market analytics and asset valuation. Clients include Federal and State government and regulatory agencies, Oil&Gas cos, gas and power utilities, pipeline, storage, refineries, LNG, and banking and financial inst across the globe. Jairam worked at SoCal Edison (7 yrs) focusing on gas and power price forecasting, procurement, contracting, hedging & Trading ops and strategic analysis. Before SCE, Jairam worked at the CEC for 21 years managing the gas market analysis group, forecast gas and power prices and regulatory and policy analysis for CA. He served as the Chair for CADER in facilitating DER implementation and interconnection. Prior to CEC, he was faculty at the Department of Chem.Eng. Univ Pittsburgh PA, on gas, oil and coal R&D, Experience includes fundamental economic modeling and strategic analysis for natural gas markets and project, analysis of global natural gas and LNG market price, supply, and demand analysis, price forecasts, revenue projection, hedging and trading and procurement, Gas pipeline and storage ops covering CAPEX and OPEX and asset evaluation, LNG market analysis, economics of liquefaction and regas projects and regulatory and policy analysis; LNG project in Croatia, Turkey, Americas and India; refinery analysis in Malaysia; Natural gas markets in Nigeria and India; IRP for St. Kitts and Navis electric utilities, modeling training and data analytics; Regulatory and policy analysis for State and Fed govt on rate proceedings and financing management practices.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Natural Gas and Energy Market Analyst with extensive regulatory and modeling expertise.
Location: Trabuco Canyon, California, United States
Experience: 43 yrs 2 mos
Skills
- Natural Gas
- Market Analytics
- Energy Models
- Gas Planning
- Market Analysis
- Distributed Energy Resources
- Gas Market Analysis
- Policy Development
Career Highlights
- Expert in natural gas and LNG market modeling.
- Extensive experience in energy market analytics.
- Led regulatory and policy analysis for major energy projects.
Work Experience
Retired
Retired (2 mos)
Energy Exemplar
Lead Gas Analyst (5 yrs 4 mos)
Deloitte & Touche
Specialist Leader, Advisory Services (5 yrs 9 mos)
ICF International
Project Director (0 mo)
Deloitte MarketPoint
Senior Manager (11 mos)
SCE
Project Manager (6 yrs 7 mos)
CADER
Chairman (7 yrs 9 mos)
California Energy Commission
Sr. Supervisor (21 yrs)
University of Pittsburgh
Research Associate (3 yrs 5 mos)
Education
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at University of Mumbai
Engineering Management at Univ. of Pittsburgh
Bachelor's degree at Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur