Philip Q. Hanser is a principal of The Brattle Group and has over thirty-five years of consulting and litigation experience in the energy industry. He specializes in regulatory and financial economics, especially for electric and gas utilities. He also provides assistance in statistical matters including sample design and data analysis.
He has appeared as an expert witness before the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), and numerous state public utility commissions, environmental agencies, Canadian utility boards, as well as arbitration panels, and in federal and state courts. He served for six years on the American Statistical Association’s (ASA) Advisory Committee to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). Besides being a member of ASA, he is also a member of IEEE (Institute of Electronics and Electrical Engineers), CIGRE (Conseil International des Grands Reseaux Electriques).
Prior to joining The Brattle Group, he held teaching positions at the University of the Pacific, University of California at Davis, and Columbia University, and served as a guest lecturer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, and the University of Chicago. He was a Senior Associate in the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at the Harvard Kennedy School and co-led the HKS seminar in public policy analysis for the Master’s in Public Policy (MPP) Business and Government concentration. He is a Lecturer in Boston University’s Questrom School of Business’s Markets, Public Policy, and Law department and is a Senior Fellow in B.U.’s Institute for Sustainable Energy. He has also served as the manager of the Demand-Side Management Program at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). He has been published widely in leading industry and economic journals.
Review and Analysis of Service Quality Plan Structure. Investigation Regarding Service Quality Guidelines For Electric Distribution Companies and Local Gas Distribution Companies, Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities D.P.U. 12-120. Philip Q Hanser, David E. M. Sappington, William P. Zarakas.
March 2013
Before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Docket Nos. RM10-17-000 and EL09-68-00, Filed Comments re: Supplemental Notice of Proposed Rulemaking and September 13, 2010 Technical Conference
October 4, 2010
Before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Docket No. RM10-17-000 and EL09-68-00, Filed Comments re: Notice of Proposed Rulemaking regarding wholesale compensation of demand response
May 13, 2010
Prepared Joint Direct Testimony of Judy Chang and Philip Q Hanser, on Behalf of the City of Vernon, California in its
Prepared Petition for Declaratory Order and Request for Waiver of Filing Fee of City of Vernon, California, before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Docket No. EL09-64-000
July 15, 2009
Before the Pennsylvania Public Utilities Commission, Docket No. P-2008-2020257, Rebuttal and Surrebuttal Testimony on behalf of Pennsylvania Electric Company re: causes and pricing of transmission congestion in Wellsboro area in PJM
January 16, 2009, March 10, 2009
Comment—“A Marginal–Value Approach to Pricing Reactive Power Services” in
Principles for Efficient and Reliable Reactive Power Supply and Consumption, before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Docket No. AD05-1-000
April 4, 2005
Prepared Joint Affidavit of Judy Chang and Philip Q Hanser on behalf of Northeast Utilities Service Company and affiliated companies’ market-based rate authorization, before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Docket No. ER96-496-010, et al
September 27, 2004, Revised December 9, 2004
Prepared Affidavit of Philip Q Hanser before FERC, on behalf of Otter Tail Power Company (OTP) regarding problems that may result from the implementation of MISO’s markets tariff in OTP’s region, Docket No. ER04-691-000
May 7, 2004
Prepared Joint Affidavit of Judy Chang and Philip Q Hanser on behalf of Northeast Utilities, Devon Power LLC, et al., before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), Docket No. ER03-563-030
March 24, 2004