Nidhi Thakar

Nidhi Thakar is CEBA’s senior vice president for policy. An accomplished policymaker, strategist, and lawyer, Nidhi brings over 20 years of experience across the private and public sectors to her work to attain a cleaner, more secure, and more reliable energy system. Her success in advancing innovative, decarbonized reliability solutions is guided by her hands-on experience working for state and federal regulators and lawmakers, utilities, start-ups, and NGOs, and with the broad range of stakeholders engaged in the complex policy and regulatory environments she regularly navigates. Nidhi was most recently vice president for policy and regulatory at Form Energy, where she built and led the company’s global policy, government affairs, and regulatory team. Nidhi previously served as senior director for Portland General Electric, where she led cross-functional efforts to advance rapid decarbonization and electrification, resiliency and reliability, business model innovation, and customer s