Regulatory and Public Policy
Analysis Group delivers a broad range of regulatory policy and practice expertise to our clients, including expert testimony and advice related to rate regulation, market evaluation, competition, and public policy.
Analysis Group professionals have provided support before state siting agencies for reliability, need, public benefits, economic benefits, and environmental impacts of proposed energy facilities (e.g., transmission facilities, natural gas pipelines, and electric power plants). Our work includes a combination of economic studies, reliability studies, market analyses, testimony, and meetings with agency staff and various interested parties.
Why Coal Plants Retire
In a new research paper, Managing Principal Susan F. Tierney outlines the economic factors (apart from regulatory concerns) that plant owners must consider as part of their facility retirement decisions.
We also advise clients on such matters as:
- Ratemaking treatment of various utility investments and expenses related to transmission, distribution, generation, and demand-side resources
- Power procurement
- Integrated resource planning
- Design and implementation of corporate strategies related to energy efficiency and renewables
- Advanced ratemaking, including performance-based ratemaking, revenue decoupling, cost trackers, and other rate adjustments
- Allocation of costs associated with joint infrastructure, such as transmission
We also have advised clients on affiliate relations and codes of conduct, EPAct requirements, the credit and equity implications of regulatory rulings, and other traditional ratemaking policies.
Our experience includes testimony before FERC on the merits and limitations of various screen measures required of entities at market-based prices. As part of these engagements, we have compared rates across jurisdictions, evaluated performance-based ratemaking plans, and assessed appropriate standards for ratemaking treatment of certain costs.
Our testifying experience also includes contract dispute matters involving competitive power procurement processes.