Highlighting Arushi Sharma Frank: The Grid’s Most Tenacious Market Builder

In brief

Jigar Shah holds Arushi up as proof that deployment beats debate. He traces her path through the American Gas Association, the Electric Power Supply Association, Exelon-Constellation and Tesla, and credits her advocacy after Winter Storm Uri with laying the groundwork for the Texas PUC’s Aggregated DER Pilot, alongside battery programs in PJM and Puerto Rico. He then follows her ERCOT proposal for faster data center interconnection from a sketch in her Moleskine to unanimous committee approvals in under a year.

Key points

1. 01A career across natural gas, wholesale power, utility regulation and battery storage.
2. 02Battery and virtual power plant frameworks in Texas, PJM and Puerto Rico.
3. 03PCLR: a white paper in September 2025, PGRR134 filed November 1, 2025, unanimous committee approvals within a year.