Provides independent and unbiased written and oral testimony by :
- Combining extensive energy industry expertise with well-honed quantitative skills.
- Analyzing large and complex database files using Microsoft Access or Excel.
- Applying detail-oriented queries to find the proverbial "needle in the haystack".
- Becoming a strategic working partner with both clients and in-house/outside counsel.
Promotes transparent, well-documented economic modeling and market assessment of emerging energy technologies by:
- Working closely with project engineers to understand critical technical parameters of importance to project economics modeled in MATLAB or Microsoft Excel.
- Quantifying benefits and costs through market analysis and extensive literature review.
- Identifying attributes of distributed energy resources relative to central station generation.
- Comparing relative benefits and costs in an integrated analytical framework.
COMMODITY MARKET ANALYSIS & RISK MANAGEMENT
Directs strategic planning efforts for end-users and energy providers by:
- Analyzing the interaction of fundamental and technical energy market factors.
- Evaluating inherent risk in existing commodity- and asset-based contracts.
- Recommending appropriate hedging strategy to manage the identified risk.
- Training clients in basic concepts of hedging and technical analysis.
COMMODITY PROCUREMENT AND CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
Ensures clients access to competitive pricing in fuel and power markets by:
- Initiating, managing, and analyzing client-appropriate Requests for Proposal.
- Ranking all proposals based on agreed-upon metrics to identify the best offers.
- Negotiating final contract with selected counterparty.
- Optimizing costs or revenues through ongoing contract management.
- Tracking tariff provisions for invoice reconciliation and imbalance minimization.
REGULATORY AFFAIRS AND LEGISLATIVE MONITORING
Informs clients of pending regulatory changes, placing clients in a position to influence those changes by:
- Monitoring the actions of federal, state, and local regulatory bodies.
- Providing client-specific training sessions on the regulatory and policy environment.
- Participating in regulatory proceedings, for individual clients or as part of a collaborative group.
- Providing supporting analysis and testimony throughout a proceeding.
INTEGRATED ANALYSIS OF EMISSIONS AND ENERGY MARKETS
Balances the costs of fuel inputs and emissions allowances by:
- Calculating the equivalent $/MWh market cost of emissions allowances.
- Anticipating directional price movement within a market outlook through regulatory and market analysis of emissions & energy markets.
- Developing a trading strategy for fuel inputs and emissions allowances that is aligned with the market outlook.
