Uju Okasi

Uju Okasi is an energy regulatory lawyer with more than a decade of experience across the U.S. power sector. Her background spans federal decision-making, advising energy companies and market participants on interconnection, market rules, and regulatory strategy, and direct counseling of a utility applying complex requirements to projects and operations. This range gives her a practical view of how power-sector rules are developed, interpreted, challenged, and implemented.

Her experience includes analyzing complex electricity-market matters and drafting Commission decisions at FERC, advising utilities and regional market operators on market rules and interconnection, and translating regulatory frameworks into filings, expert testimony, and implementation guidance.

Her utility experience added the perspective of the companies responsible for applying those requirements to projects and system operations. She advised interconnection matters from both the generation and utility sides, giving her a practical view of how the same regulatory framework shapes project strategy, utility obligations, and implementation.

Many of these matters have required close collaboration with engineers, economists, operators, market specialists, and commercial teams. Uju draws out the technical and operational facts that shape the regulatory analysis and connects them to the decisions institutions, companies, and projects need to make.

Uju’s FERC experience spans wholesale electricity markets, interconnection, transmission planning, and utility ratemaking. She authored a FERC Initial Decision establishing a regulated utility’s return on equity (ROE), which examined how ROE shapes the ability to attract capital for energy infrastructure. She has been recognized by Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America for Energy Law and by the National Black Lawyers as a Top 40 Under 40 lawyer. She is an alumna of the Clean Energy Leadership Institute and the Atlantic Council’s Women Leaders in Energy Fellowship, served on the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Energy, Clean Air & Natural Resources Committee, and chaired the Energy Bar Association’s International Energy Law and Transactions Committee. She is admitted to the Maryland Bar and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

Uju earned her bachelor’s degree from Harvard University, pursued graduate study at Yale University, and earned her law degree from Howard University School of Law.