Gayatri M. Schilberg
Senior Economist
 

Gayatri Schilberg is a Senior Economist and expert witness with over twenty-seven years of experience in economic and statistical research and business applications.  She has concentrated on utility issues for the last twenty years.

Ms. Schilberg has three degrees in economics: a B.A. from Oberlin College (1968), an M.A. from the University of Wisconsin (1969), and an M.Phil. from Oxford University (1973).

In July, 1987, Ms. Schilberg joined JBS Energy as a Senior Economist, where she is an expert on quantification of energy savings to demand response programs, customer service for both energy and telecommunications utilities, utility revenue requirements for tree trimming and distribution maintenance, economic analysis of the value of reliability for utility planning, and quantification and modeling of energy and environmental issues.

Ms. Schilberg has testified at the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) on many occasions on utility customer service and operational issues, quantification of demand response, customer service and reliability issues in Performance-Based Ratemaking (PBR), emergency response and emergency standards; tree trimming, deferred pole maintenance and other distribution expenses; costs of PG&E’s customer information system; medical baseline; meter reading practices; and erroneous late payment charges. 

She presented testimony before the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada on several occasions regarding PBR service quality mechanisms.  Ms. Schilberg testified before the Alberta Energy and Utilities Board on service quality as well as customer harm from sale of the retail utility functions.  She testified at the Nevada County (California) Municipal Court on PG&E's spending on tree trimming.  She has also testified at the California Energy Commission (CEC) and the Ontario Energy Board on valuation of environmental externalities; and at the CEC on demand forecasts and in a siting case.  She has also filed testimony at the Maryland PSC on service quality issues.  Ms. Schilberg conducted a nationwide survey on utility customer service standards, and has served on a CPUC task force to create inspection, maintenance, and reliability standards for electric utilities.  She has served as a member of a committee on transmission planning standards for the California Independent System Operator (ISO.

Relating to environmental issues, Ms. Schilberg estimated the energy impacts of the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s 1994 Air Quality Management Plan and its Rule 1135 on powerplant emissions.  She prepared a major report on valuation of environmental externalities for Environment Canada, and supervised the preparation of major reports for the Photovoltaic Education Program of the National Association of State Utility Consumer Advocates.  In the area of quantitative analysis, she reviewed CEC demand forecasts in three Electricity Reports, and also modeled generation systems of three Hawaiian utilities.

Earlier Ms. Schilberg worked for the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development in Geneva.