Christina Hayes is Executive Director of Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG), representing a diverse coalition of utilities, customers, developers, environmental advocates, and labor interests who support the development of high-capacity transmission to expand and modernize the grid cost-effectively and reliably. While at ACEG, Christina has been a leading advocate for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) historic regional transmission planning rule, Order No. 1920. She’s also pushed for reformed siting and permitting processes, increased funding mechanisms to support large-scale regional and interregional transmission projects, and improved interregional transmission planning and development, among other transmission-related issues. A regulatory energy attorney for 20 years, Christina previously served as Vice President for Federal Regulatory Affairs at Berkshire Hathaway Energy, an attorney at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission for nearly a decade, including as an advisor to Chairman Wellinghoff, and as an administrative law judge at the Public Utility Commission of Oregon.