Lori Aniti

I started my career in energy in 1998 at the Maryland Public Service Commission in Baltimore, where I worked on restructuring the electricity industry so people could buy their electricity supply competitively from different suppliers instead of just from the utility. After that, I moved to the Energy Information Administration at DOE, which is the statistical arm of the Department of Energy. We're not policy-oriented - we just gather statistics and use those statistics to inform people about energy markets and inform policy makers to help them make better decisions. For most of my time at EIA, I worked on the Annual Energy Outlook, which is a long-term forecast where we take the statistics that EIA collects and use them to forecast 30 years out, trying to get an idea of what the market would look like if everything stayed in place the way it is now, and then we run different scenarios like what if the economy heats up, or what if there's more energy efficiency equipment, or what if costs for renewables change. Then I moved to short-term energy markets where I worked on a coal forecast for a while and did special projects looking at different electricity markets around the country and how electricity markets might respond to different scenarios. Now I'm working on a weekly natural gas storage supplement, looking at not just natural gas storage but also natural gas prices on a weekly basis and what's going on in natural gas markets. I also contribute to Today in Energy, where every analyst writes short articles about something that's happening in energy markets.