Matthew Freedman

Matt Freedman is a staff attorney for The Utility Reform Network (TURN) with over 30 years of experience working on energy policy and law at both the federal and state level. At TURN, Matt represents the interests of residential utility customers at the California Public Utilities Commission, the California Legislature and other state agencies. His portfolio includes a wide array of electric utility ratemaking issues, rate design, renewable energy policy, distributed generation, conventional and nuclear generation, nuclear decommissioning, voluntary green energy products, wholesale market design and retail competition. Matt has been actively involved in the development of many landmark state energy policy initiatives including the California Renewables Portfolio Standard program.
 
Matt served on the Green-e Green Power Board (2001-2007), on the San Francisco Renewable Energy Task Force (2011-2012), and on the advisory board of the Berkeley Energy & Resources Collaborative (2018-present). He was a lecturer at Berkeley Law (UC Berkeley) in the spring of 2017 and 2018 teaching energy law and policy courses and occasionally provides guest lectures at Berkeley Law and Stanford Law School.
 
Prior to working for TURN, Matt was a policy analyst for the Massachusetts Public Interest Research Group (working on electric deregulation and power plant emissions) and a senior energy policy analyst with Public Citizen’s Critical Mass Energy Project in Washington, DC (working on nuclear power, federal budget and electricity policy issues). 
 
Matt received a BA from Columbia University and a JD from Harvard Law School.  He originally hails from the historic town of Marblehead, MA and the dense urban core of New York City.