Jonathan Raab

Dr. Jonathan Raab is president of Raab Associates, Ltd, a Massachusetts-based firm established in 1991. An experienced mediator, facilitator, consultant, and trainer, he is a national leader in applying consensus-building processes to energy, environmental, and regulatory issues. 

Dr. Raab has designed and served as lead facilitator/mediator on hundreds of cutting-edge energy, climate, and environmental stakeholder processes in the U.S. and Canada. Some of his major cases include the Federal (FERC)/State (NARUC) Task Force on Electric Transmisssion, the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), and the New England Demand Response Initiative (NEDRI); renewable portfolio standards (RPS), distributed generation interconnection standards, and energy efficiency collaboratives in multiple states; greenhouse gas planning processes for the city of Boston, the state of Maine, and the state of Rhode Island (which received EPA’s Climate Protection Award in 2005); Grid Modernization processes in Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island; Cape Wind; Energy Facility Siting in New Hampshire; Vermont’s Energy Future; Alberta’s Market Participant Rules; and the Energy Plan for Tennessee.  He has four times led the workshops to develop the recommended changes for Massachusetts's three-year energy efficiency plans; and he was the lead facilitator for the California Energy Efficiency Coordinating Committee for half a decade.

Dr. Raab has also run stakeholder processes for U.S. DOE, U.S Fish & Wildlife, and U.S. EPA, and has done work on stakeholder engagement in Germany (transmission) and Japan (nuclear). He has also led intensive facilitated/mediated efforts to reform both PJM’s and MISO’s stakeholder processes. 

Dr. Raab ran the New England Electricity Restructuring Roundtable for 30 years, from 1995 to 2025. From 2016 through 2020, he ran the Energy Policy Roundtable in the PJM Footprint. Dr. Raab is on the mediation panels for the PJM Power Pool and the Mid-Continent Area Power Pool, and on the dispute resolution rosters of the U.S. EPA, the U.S. Institute for Environmental Conflict Resolution, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. He is the author of Using Consensus Building to Improve Utility Regulation (ACEEE: foreword by Susan Tierney) 

Prior to establishing Raab Associates, Dr. Raab was the Assistant Director of the Electric Power Division at the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities. He holds a Ph.D. from the Urban Studies and Planning Department at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (focusing on Energy and Environmental Policy and Resource Economics), an M.S. from Stanford University's Civil Engineering Department (focusing on Infrastructure Planning and Management), and an A.B. (distinction) in Social Sciences, also from Stanford. Dr. Raab has taught courses at the University of Oregon, Stanford, and UMass (Boston). He designed and taught the Energy Policy for a Sustainable Future course at MIT from 2006 to 2011.