Utilities are under pressure to analyze and justify their resource portfolio expansion plans with greater recognition of the economic impacts of current and potential future regulatory policy. Such considerations include renewable resource requirements, conservation initiatives, and CO2 emission constraints. The Brattle Group provides economic analysis to develop integrated resource plans for utilities that consider generation options with varying degrees of exposure to market and regulatory risks, the optimal portfolio of contracts (power purchases), demand-side options, and transmission alternatives.
We develop resource planning approaches and techniques that focus on uncertainty and risk as essential components of sound investment decisions and transparent communication with stakeholders. We provide expert testimony and economic analysis which reflects our experience in finance, market structure, market design, and regulation of energy markets.
Our economic consultants have comprehensive skills in financial modeling, market analysis and forecasting, cost of capital determinations, option pricing, decision analysis, and risk management. These capabilities are essential to providing clients with unrivaled support for regulatory proceedings in rapidly evolving energy markets.
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