Angela Navarro
Charlottesville
Summary
Nationally respected energy and environmental policy leader with over 15 years of experience across government, advocacy, and consulting. Angela brings unmatched insight into state utility regulation, executive branch decision-making, and legislative strategy. As a former utility commissioner and senior administration official, she now advises clients navigating complex energy markets, helping them unlock opportunities for clean energy, grid modernization, and climate-aligned innovation.
Overview
17
17
years of professional experience
Work History
President
ALN Policy and Law, LLC
Charlottesville
10.2023 - Current
- Represent clean energy, technology, and non-profit clients as they navigate the legal, regulatory, and public policy landscape in energy markets across the nation.
- Provide advocacy before the executive branch, the legislative branch, and regulatory bodies, including development of policy analysis and market strategies on programs that will enable the further deployment of clean energy technologies, grid enhancing technologies, and climate mitigation tools.
- Work within coalitions to build strategic partnerships in furtherance of legislative and regulatory objectives.
Head of State Regulatory Affairs
Arcadia Power, LLC
Charlottesville
05.2022 - 09.2023
- Led a nationwide team of policy and regulatory experts to help shape the grid of the future.
- Focused advocacy on expanding community solar, enhancing data access, increasing dynamic rates, and providing opportunities to shape the distributed energy landscape via regulatory interventions.
- (remote)
Commissioner
Virginia State Corporation Commission
Richmond
01.2021 - 01.2022
- Served as one of three Commissioners elected by the Virginia General Assembly to regulate a variety of industries, including the Commonwealth’s investor-owned electric utilities.
- Presided over litigated dockets, including integrated resource planning, renewable portfolio standard compliance, demand-side management programming, community solar implementation, rate cases, grid modernization planning, and tariff applications for investments in both supply-side and demand-side resources.
- Presided over the rulemaking process for a variety of electric industry programs, including rules to implement the Virginia Clean Economy Act and grid modernization.
- Participated in federal and regional utility work groups, including the Interconnection sub-group of the FERC/NARUC Task Force on Electric Transmission, the Organization of PJM States, Inc. (OPSI), and the NARUC Committee on Water.
Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Trade
Office of Governor Ralph S. Northam
Richmond
06.2018 - 09.2020
- Advised the Governor, the Secretary of Commerce and Trade, and other key Administration officials on energy, housing, small business, and economic development priorities.
- Drafted the Commonwealth’s Energy Plan and Executive Order 43, both of which established the Commonwealth’s clean energy priorities, including the goal of achieving 100% percent of Virginia’s electricity from carbon-free sources by 2050.
- Served as a mediator during the legislative debate on proposals to reduce carbon emissions and increase investments in clean energy resources, including the Virginia Clean Economy Act and the Grid Transformation and Security Act.
- Assisted in the development and implementation of Executive Order 35 to enhance state contracting opportunities for Small, Women, and Minority-owned (SWaM) businesses.
- Supported top economic development priorities for the Commonwealth, including coordinating the effort to secure Amazon’s second headquarters in Northern Virginia.
Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources
Office of Governor Ralph S. Northam
Richmond
12.2018 - 06.2018
- Advised the Administration on energy, climate change, and land conservation policies during and after the transition between governors, including drafting memorandum and talking points as well as briefing staff and external stakeholders.
- Managed Secretariat priorities, including implementing mitigation agreements, developing Executive Orders, and assisting with key personnel decisions within the agencies.
Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources
Office of Governor Terence R. McAuliffe
Richmond
06.2015 - 12.2017
- Advised the Governor and the Secretary of Natural Resources on issues including clean energy, carbon reduction, coastal resilience, land conservation, and historic resources.
- Facilitated the Governor’s stakeholder process aimed at reducing carbon emissions from Virginia’s electric sector and worked to implement a strategy for Virginia to participate in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI).
- Led the Governor’s Climate Change and Resiliency Commission, including execution of the Commission’s recommendations aimed at climate change adaptation and mitigation.
- Worked through multi-state partnerships to achieve broader policy objectives, such as negotiation with states participating in RGGI and helping to develop the Climate Alliance, an alliance of states committed to the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement.
- Drafted and implemented mitigation agreements for impacts associated with linear infrastructure projects and natural resource damages.
Attorney
Southern Environmental Law Center
Charlottesville
09.2010 - 06.2015
- Lead the organization’s energy efficiency practice across a six-state southeastern region to increase investments in utility-scale energy efficiency programs.
- Led the organization’s energy regulatory portfolio in Virginia, including representing clients in dozens of electric utility dockets before the Virginia State Corporation Commission.
- Drafted legislation, formed coalitions, worked with foundations to secure funding, and developed policy strategies on clean energy and climate change issues.
- Drafted briefs, motions, written discovery, pleadings, and memoranda in a variety of complex environmental matters pending before federal and state courts.
Barker Litigation Fellow
Georgetown Litigation Fellowship, Humane Society of the United States
Washington
09.2009 - 09.2010
- Drafted briefs and memos invoking various federal laws, including the Endangered Species Act, the Marine Mammal Protection Act, and the National Environmental Policy Act.
- Collaborated with environmental groups and federal agencies to develop legal strategies, settlement options, and policy analysis for endangered species protection.
Law Clerk to the Environmental Crimes Section
U.S. Department of Justice
Washington
01.2009 - 05.2009
- Assisted attorneys in pending litigation, including the prosecution and trial court proceedings for one of the largest environmental crime lawsuits over an asbestos superfund site.
Clinical Student
Institute for Public Representation, Environmental Section
Washington
01.2008 - 05.2008
- Drafted an amicus brief in support of California’s challenge to the Environmental Protection Agency’s denial of a waiver to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from mobile sources.
Education
Juris Doctor -
Georgetown University Law Center
Washington, D.C.05.2009
Bachelor of Science - Business Marketing
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida05.2006
Bachelor of Arts - English
University of Florida
Gainesville, Florida05.2006
Skills
- Policy analysis
- Regulatory compliance
- Legislative advocacy
- Strategic partnerships
- Energy market strategies
- Community solar expansion
- Stakeholder engagement
- Team leadership
- Public speaking
- Analytical thinking
Affiliations
- Bar Admissions: Virginia (active) and Maryland (inactive)
- Member of the Virginia State Bar Administrative Law Section; former member of the Board of Governors of the Administrative Law Section
- Member of the Board of the State Energy & Environmental Impact Center at NYU School of Law
- Member of the Board of Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Central Blue Ridge
- Member of the Board of the Virginia Impact Investing Forum
Boards & Affiliations
- Board Member, NYU State Energy & Environmental Impact Center
- Board Member, Virginia Impact Investing Forum
- Board Member, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Blue Ridge
- Former Board, VA Bar Administrative Law Section
Strategic Wins
- Appointed Commissioner, Virginia SCC – Presided over rate cases, grid planning, RPS implementation, DSM programs, and integrated resource plans.
- Led Virginia’s clean energy strategy – Authored Executive Order 43 and the 2018 Virginia Energy Plan, establishing a 100% carbon-free electricity goal.
- Advanced national regulatory policy – Served on OPSI, FERC/NARUC Transmission Task Force, and NARUC Water Committee.
- Shaped multi-state community solar policy – As Arcadia’s head of state affairs, developed regulatory strategies in over 20 markets.
- Built cross-sector coalitions – Mediated legislative compromise on the Virginia Clean Economy Act and coordinated economic development for Amazon HQ2.
Timeline
President
ALN Policy and Law, LLC
10.2023 - Current
Head of State Regulatory Affairs
Arcadia Power, LLC
05.2022 - 09.2023
Commissioner
Virginia State Corporation Commission
01.2021 - 01.2022
Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources
Office of Governor Ralph S. Northam
12.2018 - 06.2018
Deputy Secretary of Commerce and Trade
Office of Governor Ralph S. Northam
06.2018 - 09.2020
Deputy Secretary of Natural Resources
Office of Governor Terence R. McAuliffe
06.2015 - 12.2017
Attorney
Southern Environmental Law Center
09.2010 - 06.2015
Barker Litigation Fellow
Georgetown Litigation Fellowship, Humane Society of the United States
09.2009 - 09.2010
Law Clerk to the Environmental Crimes Section
U.S. Department of Justice
01.2009 - 05.2009
Clinical Student
Institute for Public Representation, Environmental Section
01.2008 - 05.2008
Juris Doctor -
Georgetown University Law Center
Bachelor of Science - Business Marketing
University of Florida
Bachelor of Arts - English
University of Florida
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