Electricity markets, contracts, technologies and assets
Cap-and-Trade markets, emissions and environmental regulations
Natural Gas and Coal: emissions, pollution controls and markets
International science, technology and regulatory policies
Electricity markets, contracts, technologies and assets
- Assess power supply alternatives, technologies and contracts,
- Evaluate power sales agreements and economics for renewables, demand-response, conventional and combined heat and power supply offers, including bids received, economic & valuation methods,
- Conduct due diligence, monitor negotiations with short-listed bidders and review contract terms and conditions,
- Prepare reports regarding fairness and make recommendations about the Request for Offers process, evaluation methods, short-listed projects and specific contracts filed for approval at the California Public Utilities Commission.
- Advise re: Integrated Resource Planning, Long-term Procurement Planning, economic methods, analytic models and regulatory compliance,
- Evaluate technology cost and performance, market penetration and R&D.
- Value projects and power plant property taxes, and
- Prepare damage calculations, draft and deliver expert testimony, write and review interrogatories and comments in regulatory and civil proceedings and provide litigation support.
Cap-and-trade markets, emissions and environmental regulations
- Simulate the behavior of electricity, natural gas & allowance markets and project effects of regulations governing greenhouse gases,
- Develop integrated assessments of the impacts of New Source Performance Standards (NSPS), New Source Review, CEQA, alternative market designs and proposed regulations for greenhouse gases (GHG),
- Compare and critique cap-and-trade market designs and regulations for emission allowances,
- Simulate allowance auction behavior and calculate effects of market rules on compliance strategies, and
- Examine characteristics of economic models, projected prices and costs under California’s AB 32 and proposed U.S. national legislation.
Natural gas and coal fuels and markets
- Review procurement, fuel switching and hedging activities,
- Examine purchase agreements and operations,
- Conduct “reasonableness” and “prudence” reviews and prepare expert testimony,
- Project market behavior and forecast prices, and
- Analyze pipeline economics and tariffs for FERC and CPUC rate cases.
International science, technology and regulatory policies
- Advise regarding integrated technology assessments, energy policy analyses and environmental impact studies,
- Develop and critique energy and environmental market design, regulations and sustainable market policies, and
- Serve as peer reviewer of articles submitted for publication.
