Lane Smith

Lane D. Smith is a postdoctoral scholar working with the Climate and Energy Policy Program at Stanford University. His research interests include energy affordability, electricity rate design, and macro-energy systems (with a particular focus on the electric grid). With the Climate and Energy Policy Program, Lane is working on a portfolio of projects that propose solutions to provide Californians with near-term electricity bill relief and examine systemic reforms that can help reduce energy system costs.

Lane holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington (2024 and 2019, respectively) and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Denver (2018). During graduate school, he worked for multiple organizations aiming to bridge the gap between technical modeling and energy policy analysis. Lane worked with Breakthrough Energy on open-source software development of high-resolution power system and energy sector models. Additionally, he also worked at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, where he researched efficient and cost-reflective electricity rate designs and modeled the impacts of those electricity rates on system costs and consumer flexibility.