{"id":20,"date":"2016-06-18T17:22:01","date_gmt":"2016-06-18T17:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vhcenergy.fergiedesign.com\/?page_id=20"},"modified":"2022-01-14T21:32:10","modified_gmt":"2022-01-15T05:32:10","slug":"expertise","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/?page_id=20","title":{"rendered":"Expertise"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover has-background-dim\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"640\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-816\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/VHCwebpicture-OahuIVsolar1-1-1024x640.jpg\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/VHCwebpicture-OahuIVsolar1-1-1024x640.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/VHCwebpicture-OahuIVsolar1-1-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/VHCwebpicture-OahuIVsolar1-1-768x480.jpg 768w, https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/VHCwebpicture-OahuIVsolar1-1-1536x960.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/VHCwebpicture-OahuIVsolar1-1-2048x1280.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-cover-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Areas of Expertise<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">* Electricity markets, contracts, technologies and assets<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">* Cap-and-trade markets, emissions and environmental regulations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">* Natural gas and coal: emissions, pollution controls and markets<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">* International science, technology and regulatory policies<\/h3>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<h3>Electricity markets, contracts, technologies and assets<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Assess power supply alternatives, technologies and contracts,<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate power sales agreements and economics for renewables, demand-response, conventional and combined heat and power supply offers, including bids received, economic &amp; valuation methods,<\/li>\n<li>Conduct due diligence, monitor negotiations with short-listed bidders and review contract terms and conditions,<\/li>\n<li>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.<\/li>\n<li>Advise re: Integrated Resource Planning, Long-term Procurement Planning, economic methods, analytic models and regulatory compliance,<\/li>\n<li>Evaluate technology cost and performance, market penetration and R&amp;D.<\/li>\n<li>Value projects and power plant property taxes, and<\/li>\n<li>Prepare damage calculations, draft and deliver expert testimony, write and review interrogatories and comments in regulatory and civil proceedings and provide litigation support.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Cap-and-trade markets, emissions and environmental regulations<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Simulate the behavior of electricity, natural gas &amp; allowance markets and project effects of regulations governing greenhouse gases,<\/li>\n<li>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),<\/li>\n<li>Compare and critique cap-and-trade market designs and regulations for emission allowances,<\/li>\n<li>Simulate allowance auction behavior and calculate effects of market rules on compliance strategies, and<\/li>\n<li>Examine characteristics of economic models, projected prices and costs under California&#8217;s AB 32 and proposed U.S. national legislation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Natural gas and coal fuels and markets<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Review procurement, fuel switching and hedging activities,<\/li>\n<li>Examine purchase agreements and operations,<\/li>\n<li>Conduct &#8220;reasonableness&#8221; and &#8220;prudence&#8221; reviews and prepare expert testimony,<\/li>\n<li>Project market behavior and forecast prices, and<\/li>\n<li>Analyze pipeline economics and tariffs for FERC and CPUC rate cases.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>International science, technology and regulatory policies<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop and critique energy and environmental market design, regulations and sustainable market policies,<\/li>\n<li>Advise regarding integrated technology assessments, energy policy analyses and environmental impact studies, and<\/li>\n<li>Serve as peer reviewer of articles submitted for publication.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" src=\"https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2-vhc-04-DSCN1647.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-817\" srcset=\"https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2-vhc-04-DSCN1647.jpg 800w, https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2-vhc-04-DSCN1647-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/2-vhc-04-DSCN1647-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption>Huntington Beach Power Plant 11\/16\/2004<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &amp; valuation methods, Conduct due diligence, monitor negotiations with short-listed bidders and review contract terms and conditions, Prepare reports regarding fairness &#8230; <a title=\"Expertise\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/?page_id=20\" aria-label=\"More on Expertise\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-20","page","type-page","status-publish"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":824,"href":"https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/20\/revisions\/824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vhcenergy.com\/vhc\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}