Energy Strategies helps our clients understand the impacts of utility regulatory proceedings, both electric and natural gas.
When appropriate, we provide expert testimony to address issues of concern to our clients in regulatory proceedings that can help guide regulator decisions that are just and reasonable. Our areas of expertise include the following subjects:
Utility revenue requirements
Cost allocation to customer classes
Spread of rates to customer classes
Rate design for collecting the appropriate revenues
Rate adjustment riders
Prudency review of investment decisions
Pricing of independent generation, including avoided costs
Decoupling
Energy Strategies witnesses have testified in more than 250 proceedings before 29 state regulatory commissions across the United States. We also assist clients in settlement negotiations and modeling the financial impacts of regulatory proposals and decisions. We regularly provide consulting support to major electric customer advocacy groups, including the Utah Association of Energy Users, Arizonans for Electric Choice and Competition, Wyoming Industrial Energy Consumers, and Colorado Energy Consumers.