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Regulatory & Restructuring Services
GDS provides comprehensive regulatory and restructuring
services to generators, transmitters, distributors, and large users of energy.
Industry restructuring initiatives across the
country have made a solid regulatory strategy essential. Classical cost of service
studies are being replaced with studies of unbundled utility services. Rate and
rate design strategies are more complex than ever. GDS brings decades of expert
experience in all aspects of utility rate litigation, contract negotiation, and
transmission access.
"Open-Access" Transmission Issues
Transmission access, pricing, and operation issues are currently at the forefront
of a more deregulated power market across the U.S. GDS has been involved in transmission
issues from the rulemaking beginnings of FERC Order 888, through Order 2000 and
its Standard Market Design initiative and provides the following services to clients:
- Locational Marginal Pricing
- Transmission Evaluations, using load flow analysis
- Constraint Evaluations (FCITC)
- Flowgate Evaluations
- Load Pocket Determinations
- Import and Export Evaluation
- Power Marketing/Trading Support
- Production Costing
- Transmission Availability
- OASIS Monitoring
- Power Plant Development
- Siting Assistance ? Transmission
- Transmission Integration Analysis
- Coordination of Interconnection Requests
- Asset Integration and Optimization using generation
dispatch modeling
- Transmission Service Contract Negotiations
- Ancillary Service/Loss Evaluations and Negotiations
- Power Supply Contract Negotiations
- Expert Testimony
- Transmission Access Tariffs
- Market Power Issues
- RTO Development
- NERC Reliability Council Monitoring
- Transmission and Generation Operations
- Control Area Certification
- Dynamic Scheduling Coordination
- Cost of Capital Analyses
Wholesale and Retail Rate and Regulatory
Consulting
Deregulation and uncertainty in power markets, along with large energy pricing swings,
are unrivaled in the utility industry and require flexibility in ratemaking and
regulatory strategies. GDS offers broad expertise in regulatory accounting, rate
design, economics, finance, and engineering. Our experts are widely regarded for
negotiating favorable agreements and for winning favorable rulings by providing
testimony addressing a wide range of regulatory issues, including:
- Industry Restructuring and Deregulation
- RTO and ISO Formation
- Power Plant and Transmission Line Certification
- Power Plant Management Prudence
- System Dispatch and Fuel Procurement Analysis
- Cost of Service and Rate Design
- Open Access Transmission Issues
- Expert Testimony
- Cost of Capital Analyses
Technical Litigation Services
GDS provides a range of technical litigation services covering all aspects of case
development, including:
- Pre-Litigation Identification and Evaluation of Issues
- Discovery and Database Development
- Formulation of Technical and Managerial Issues and Preparation
of Strategies
- Development of Questions for Depositions
- Provision of Expert Testimony and Quantification of
Damages
Our experts have provided litigation support and damage
analyses in several major lawsuits involving complex, technical issues related to
utility management, construction, operation, accounting, and tax issues in state
and federal courts and regulatory proceedings.
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Contacts
Steve Daniel
Butch
Solomon
Steve
Shurbutt
Rob
Smith
Lynn
Lanier
Jim
Daniel
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