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Electric Power

The Brattle Group assists electric utilities, deregulated power producers, customers, regulators, and policy makers around the world with planning and litigation support, and helps to develop appropriate regulatory frameworks. We offer a range of operational and financial tools and models for the simulation and forecasting of market structure and conduct.

We provide clients with regulatory economic consulting, business strategy, and expert testimony before regulatory agencies, courts, and arbitration panels. Our experience spans international electricity markets and is supported by our expertise in all aspects of the energy sector.

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Principals:
Daniel S. Arthur
Romkaew P. Broehm
Metin Celebi
Judy Chang
Marc Chupka
Ahmad Faruqui
Peter S. Fox-Penner
José Antonio García
Richard E. Goldberg
Frank C. Graves
Philip Q Hanser
Dan Harris
Serena Hesmondhalgh
Carlos Lapuerta
Francesco Lo Passo
Pedro L. Marin
Robert S. Mudge
Dean M. Murphy
Samuel A. Newell
Johannes P. Pfeifenberger
James A. Read, Jr.
James D. Reitzes
Ira H. Shavel
Gerald A. Taylor
Jürgen Weiss
Joseph B. Wharton
William P. Zarakas


Academic Advisors:
Richard A. Brealey
Timothy J. Brennan
Nicholas S. Economides
Matthew E. Kahn
John E. Kwoka, Jr.
Gilbert E. Metcalf
David Robinson
Ian Sue Wing
Mark T. Williams


Senior Consultants:
Shaun D. Ledgerwood
Adam C. Schumacher
Toshiki (Bruce) Tsuchida


Senior Associates:
Toby Brown
Richard Caldwell
Attila Hajos
Ryan Hledik
Sanem Sergici

Selected Publications

Modelling European Electricity & Gas Markets Brochure
Electric Power Brochure
The Utility of the Future: Distributed or Not?
Structural Challenges with California’s Current Forward Procurement Construct
The Future of US Energy Utilities (external link)
Natural Gas Price & Environmental Regulation: Effect on Utility Coal Consumption
The Smart, Low Carbon Grid (external link)
Telecom Transformation (external link)
¿Amenaza de Seguridad de Suministro Eléctrico?
Energy Supply and Demand: “A Market Perspective”
Resource Adequacy in California: Options for Improving Efficiency and Effectiveness
A Markov Chain Approach to Forecasting Enrollments
Framework for Assessing Capex and Opex Forecasts as Part of a “Building Blocks” Approach to Revenue/Price Determinations
Energy Storage and RE: Opportunities and Challenges
Evaluating the Trade-Offs Between “Conventional” Electricity Storage and Thermal Storage
A Comparison of Anti-Manipulation Rules in U.S. and EU Electricity and Natural Gas Markets: A Proposal for a Common Standard (external link)
Energy Storage Technology and Economics
Energy Market Impacts of Instream Flow Requirements in Texas’ Guadalupe-San Antonio Basin
Comments of Marc W. Chupka, before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Docket No. AD12-1-000
SureWest's Transformation and its Lessons for Today's Electric Utilities
The Future of Utilities: Business Models and Strategy
Does the Market Risk Premium Change Over Time?
Employment and Economic Benefits of Transmission Infrastructure Investment in the U.S. and Canada
Electricity Markets in the US: A shift in the National Energy Policy
Evaluation of Market Fundamentals and Challenges to Long-Term System Adequacy in Alberta’s Electricity Market
The Economics of Resource Adequacy Planning: Why Reserve Margins Are Not Just About Keeping the Lights On(external link)
The Value of Resource Adequacy: Why reserve margins aren't just about keeping the lights on
Financing Transmission Expansion: The Impact of Cost Allocation
Losing Money to Increase Profits: A Proposed Framework for Defining Market Manipulation
A Review of LE/Ventyx's Cost-Benefit Analysis of Modification, P229, Lot 3 Additional Analysis
A Review of LE/Ventyx's Cost-Benefit Analysis of Modification, P229, Lot 1 Report
Capacity Market Designs: Focus on CAISO, NYISO, PJM, and ISO-NE, Presented to the Midwest ISO Supply Adequacy Working Group
The Impact of FERC’s Anti-Manipulation Statute on FTRs and Related Positions
Plugging In: Can the grid handle the coming electric vehicle load?
Divestiture policy and operating efficiency in U.S. electric power distribution
Smart Power: Climate Change, the Smart Grid, and the Future of Electric Utilities
Midwest ISO’s Resource Adequacy Construct: An Evaluation of Market Design Elements
Hedging Effects of Wind on Retail Electric Supply Costs
Generation Cost Savings From Day 1 and Day 2 RTO Market Designs
Estimating the value of electricity storage in PJM: Arbitrage and some welfare effects
Liquidity in wholesale electricity markets
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Replacing the NYISO’s Existing ICAP Market with a Forward Capacity Market
Review of the Forward Capacity Market Auction Results and Design Elements
Incentives Under Total Factor Productivity Based and Building-Blocks Type Price Controls
The Impact of Informational Feedback on Energy Consumption - A Survey of The Experimental Evidence
Assessment of a Maine ISA Structure as a Possible Alternative to ISO-NE Participation
California and Maryland - Are They Poles Apart?
Transmission Super Highways: Assessing the Potential Benefits of Extra-High-Voltage Transmission Overlays in the Midwest
When Sparks Fly: Economic Issues in Complex Energy Contract Litigation
Three Essays on U.S. Electricity Restructuring
Divestiture Policy, Vertical Deintegration, and Operating Efficiency in U.S. Electric Power Distribution
Reviving Integrated Resource Planning for Electric Utilities: New Challenges and Innovative Approaches
Impacts of Responsive Load in PJM: Load Shifting and Real Time Pricing
Transforming America’s Power Industry: The Investment Challenge - Preliminary Findings
Resource Adequacy in New England: Interactions with RPS and RGGI
An Upward Climb
Changing Conduct with Changing Demand: Evidence of Coordination Among Suppliers of Electricity in California in 2000
International Perspectives on Electricity Market Monitoring and Market Power Mitigation
Restructuring Revisited: What we can learn from retail-rate increases in restructured and non-restructured states
Utility Automatic Adjustment Clauses Revisited: Why They Are Needed More Than Ever
The Power of Five Percent: How Dynamic Pricing Can Save $35 Billion in Electricity Costs
California's Next Generation of Load Management Standards
Rate Shock Relief
Demand Response and Electricity Market Efficiency
The Zone of Reasonableness and Long Term Power Contracts
Independent System Operators for EU Energy Markets
The Economics of U.S. Climate Policy: Impact on the Electric Industry
Rate Shock Mitigation, presented at the NARUC Summer Conference
MODELING POWER MARKETS: Uses and Abuses of Locational Market Simulation Models
FERC's Standard Market Design — Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NOPR)
The State of Performance-Based Regulation in the U.S. Electric Utility Industry
Fixing America's Electric Markets: Five Major Challenges, presented at National Governors’ Association Center For Best Practices, Executive Policy Forum on Energy
The California Crisis and its Lessons for the EU
Electricity Markets: The Price of Power