Juanita Haydel

Juanita Haydel is ICF’s senior vice president of energy markets. With more than 35 years of experience in energy, environmental, and industrial market analysis focusing on federal, state, local, and international clients, Juanita oversees our support to the Department of Energy including the Offices of Electricity, Grid Deployment and Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Management. This includes supporting the implementation of the Infrastructure, Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), analyzing policy and market issues related to grid modernization and assessing the vulnerabilities of energy infrastructure.

Juanita’s career first began using ICF’s energy modeling tools and expertise to help our clients solve environmental policy and planning challenges as well as prepare for and manage the clean energy transition. Juanita supported EPA’s Clean Air Markets Division (CAMD), where ICF has provided modeling and analytic support to the agency’s rulemakings affecting the power sector for more than 25 years. She also supported the EPA in analyzing the impacts of air regulations under the Clean Air Act and related legislative requests on the power sector’s operations, economics and environmental impacts.

Juanita conducted some of the earliest work analyzing the impacts of climate change policies and changes in temperature due to climate change on the U.S. power sector. Using our Integrated Planning Model (IPM) she examined the impacts of climate change policies in the U.S. at the national, regional and state level. For the EPA, she examined the impacts on the power system of temperature changes on the structure and level of demand, and generating unit output and efficiency, and ultimately on investment decisions, emissions, system costs, and power prices for the U.S. She has supported various other clients’ energy market analysis, air emissions modeling and policy analysis, and industrial program delivery.

Additionally, Juanita has delivered projects on integrated energy resource and resilience planning in Africa for the U.S. Agency for International Development, working to incorporate risks and reliability concerns, including regulatory, fuel market, technology and climate change, and to deliver a robust set of data, modeling results, and information to inform short and long-term action plans for the power sector.

Juanita holds an MBA from MIT’s Sloan School of Management and a B.S. in Civil Engineering from MIT. She is a certified project management professional.