Jairam Gopal

CEO

Trabuco Canyon, California, United States43 yrs 2 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in natural gas and LNG market modeling.
  • Extensive experience in energy market analytics.
  • Led regulatory and policy analysis for major energy projects.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Natural Gas and Energy Market Analyst with extensive regulatory and modeling expertise.

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Skills

Core Skills

Natural GasMarket AnalyticsEnergy ModelsGas PlanningMarket AnalysisDistributed Energy ResourcesGas Market AnalysisPolicy Development

Other Skills

LNGPower ModelingAdvisory ServicesAsset ValuationSupply/Demand ForecastingPrice ForecastingCoordinating ActivitiesSupercritical ExtractionCoal Liquefaction StudiesEnergyRenewable EnergyEnergy EfficiencySmart GridPower GenerationEnergy Policy

About

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.

Experience

43 yrs 2 mos
Total Experience
7 yrs 3 mos
Average Tenure
2 mos
Current Experience

Retired

Retired

Mar 2026Present · 2 mos · United States · On-site

  • Happily retired with 4 new bosses to report to.

Energy exemplar

Lead Gas Analyst

Oct 2020Feb 2026 · 5 yrs 4 mos · Trabuco Canyon, California, United States

Natural GasLNGPower ModelingMarket Analytics

Deloitte & touche

Specialist Leader, Advisory Services

Jan 2015Oct 2020 · 5 yrs 9 mos · Orange County, CA

Energy ModelsAdvisory ServicesMarket AnalyticsAsset Valuation

Icf international

Project Director

Jan 2015Jan 2015 · 0 mo

Deloitte marketpoint

Senior Manager

Jun 2013May 2014 · 11 mos · Greater Houston

  • Global energy market analytics, supply/demand/price forecasting, market analysis;
  • Client support - modeling and market analysis;
  • Brief Management on market perspectives;
Market AnalyticsSupply/Demand ForecastingPrice Forecasting

Sce

Project Manager

Oct 2006May 2013 · 6 yrs 7 mos

  • Gas Planning,
  • Gas price forecasting and market analysis,
  • Power systems planning & Daily resource planning.
Gas PlanningPrice ForecastingMarket Analysis

Cader

Chairman

Jan 1999Oct 2006 · 7 yrs 9 mos · California

  • Coordinated and managed activities of CADER in the distributed energy resoure marketplace.
Distributed Energy ResourcesCoordinating Activities

California energy commission

Sr. Supervisor

Oct 1985Oct 2006 · 21 yrs · Sacramento, CA

  • Managed the Natural gas unit; gas market analysis, price forecasting and policy development and Analysis
Gas Market AnalysisPrice ForecastingPolicy Development

University of pittsburgh

Research Associate

May 1981Oct 1984 · 3 yrs 5 mos

  • Research in supercritical extraction & Coal liquefaction studies,
Supercritical ExtractionCoal Liquefaction Studies

Education

University of Mumbai

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) — Chemical Engineering

Jan 1976Jan 1981

Univ. of Pittsburgh

Engineering Management

Jan 1982Jan 1984

Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur

Bachelor's degree — Chemical Engineering

Jan 1971Jan 1976

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