Michelle Gardner is Executive Director of Regulatory Affairs in the Northeast and Canada for NextEra Energy Resources, a principal subsidiary of NextEra Energy, Inc. (NYSE:  NEE), the largest energy infrastructure developer in the U.S.  

Ms. Gardner joined the company in 2013. In her present role, Michelle directs NextEra Energy policies and leads a legislative and regulatory team that is involved in ISO-NE,

NYISO, PJM, AESO and IESO as well as the New England states, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Maryland, D.C., Pennsylvania, Ohio, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, West Virginia, Virginia, and Canada. She supports new development, asset management, power trading, transmission, and other interests within NextEra Energy.  

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Michelle is currently Chair of RENEW Northeast, recent past Vice-Chair of the Generation Sector in NEPOOL, and on the Board of the New England Power Generators Association (NEPGA). She previously represented Capital Power Corporation, an Alberta-based corporation with generation assets in the U.S., before the FERC as Senior Counsel, Regulatory. Prior to working for NextEra Energy and Capital Power, Michelle was with Day Pitney LLP in Boston, serving, among other clients, the NEPOOL Participants Committee, the stakeholder organization in New England.

 

Michelle graduated magna cum laude from Catholic University, Columbus School of Law with a concentration in communications law and graduated with a degree in political science from the College of the Holy Cross.