Recent Projects in
Utility Restructuring and Regulation

• Review of the Adverse Consumer Impacts of Electric Utility Restructuring that could arise in Arkansas.
• Analysis of the origins of the California Electricity Crisis.
• Identification of the worst California long-term energy contracts and how they should be renegotiated.
• Background analysis of a generic PBR scheme in Texas.
• Review of stranded costs, regulatory assets, energy load-building programs, and ratemaking issues affecting Virginia Power.
• Analysis of stranded costs, divestiture, and cost-effectiveness of utility fossil and nuclear plants of three New Jersey utilities.
• Testimony on rate unbundling in California and Nevada for consumer advocates.
• Testimony on utility costs and other economic assistance to developers of a cogeneration project on the island of Hawaii.
• Report on stranded cost quantification for the City of Philadelphia.
• Report on renewable energy and green marketing issues for a collaborative between a utility and two environmental groups in the Pacific Northwest. 
• Testimony on eligibility of various costs for inclusion in California’s Competitive Transition Charge for stranded costs.
• Testimony on rate indexing, sharing of excess earnings, customer service indicators, and rate design for Southern California Gas’ Performance-Based Ratemaking proposal.
• Report on nuclear and coal unit performance standards for the Maryland utilities based on regression analysis.
• Testimony on sunk cost recovery and future cost and performance of the Diablo Canyon and Palo Verde nuclear plants, including capacity factor and O&M cost benchmarking studies.
• Consultant to California Energy Commission on allocation of legislated funds to renewable energy projects.
• Testimony on range of stranded costs for the Puget Power - Washington Natural Gas merger.
• Formal comments on distribution service unbundling, generation market power, market structure and other issues in the Texas restructuring dockets.
• Participation in workshops on reliability and service quality of California utilities. Analysis of maintenance, tree trimming, and call center and computer system operations, related to a utility’s storm response and recent fires.
• Testimony on the effect of new transmission and ancillary service rate design on wind projects.
• Cost-of-service testimony for five gas and electric utilities in California, two in Alberta and two in Nevada.
• Presentation of public interest restructuring scenario to the Northwest Governors’ Comprehensive Review of the Northwest Energy System.
• Analysis of the effect of the proposed code of conduct for the Australian power market on renewable and cogeneration projects.