Clients include independent power producers, large industrial consumers, and retail electric providers. Sample engagements include:
- Expert testimony on utility mergers
- Expert testimony and consulting on resource planning and early retirement
- Expert testimony and consulting expert on cost of combined cycle gas turbines
- Expert testimony on rate case issues, including return and capital structure
- Expert testimony on transmission planning
- Expert testimony on mitigation of generation market power
- Expert testimony on prudence of a decision to construct a coal-fired generating plant
- Expert testimony on distributed generation
- Expert testimony in civil litigation regarding commercial reasonability of retail electric contracts.
- Consulting services related to decision to build cogeneration at industrial facilities
- Consulting services to large industrial companies regarding electric market design.
- Consulting services to a large retail electric provider regarding market opportunities and regulatory/government affairs.
- Consulting services to a developer of compressed air energy storage on regulatory and government affairs.
- Expert testimony regarding market design, the meaning of PURPA and the appropriate payment to Qualifying Facilities for power provided to the grid.
- Expert testimony in a contract dispute between a retail electric provider and a customer regarding pass-through charges.
- Consulting expert on interpretation of purchased power contract between an investor-owned utility and a municipally-owned utility.
- Expert testimony on retail rate design.
- Develop and implement advocacy plan to avoid power plant retirements from a proposed policy to ban once-through cooling in a coastal state; manage compliance filing for two power plants.
- Advise on the economics of energy storage technologies.
- Advise on the feasibility of opening additional retail gas markets to competition.
- Advise on how to structure a regulatory and government affairs organization.
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