Aaron Bloom

NextEra Energy Resources, LLC

Aaron Bloom is a Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs at NextEra Energy and a voluntary Chair of the Energy Systems Integration Group’s (ESIG) System Planning Working Group. Mr. Bloom also serves on the board for the Midwest Reliability Organization. He is an expert in power system planning, power systems operations, resource adequacy, electricity market design, and utility regulation. For the last three years he worked at NextEra Analytics where he led software development for tools used in originating clean energy projects and optimizing battery market performance.

Prior to joining NextEra, Mr. Bloom led a research portfolio at focused on system planning and market design for high renewable systems. He started his career in the energy sector at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission where we worked on a variety of wholesale market design topics, NERC standards, and California Energy Crisis investigations. Mr. Bloom received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Michigan State University and a Master of Public Administration from The Ohio State University’s John Glenn College of Public Affairs.