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Bates White’s Energy Practice provides expert economic
services for a wide range of energy-related matters, including
regulatory and public policy; litigation; market power analysis; mergers and acquisitions;
market analysis, modeling, and forecasting; market design; transmission system modeling and analysis;
environmental policy; restructuring and privatization; and finance. The common elements
we bring to these issues are rigorous and defensible quantitative
analysis, sophisticated economic modeling, a solid grounding in
economic and financial theory, in-depth research, and industry experience.
Click here for a list of our services.
Announcements
Presentations
Economic and System Reliability Benefits of the Three Mile Island Generating
Station
An Assessment of the Financial Performance Obligation Proposal
by the American Forest & Paper Association
...all presentations
A Mean-variance Portfolio Optimization of California’s Generation
Mix to 2020: Achieving California’s 33 Percent Renewable Portfolio Standard Goal (Report for the California Energy
Commission, July 2007)
Financial Risks Faced by Regulated Utilities:
Implications for the Cost of Capital and Ratemaking Policies
Cost Recovery for Demand-Side Programs through Revenue Decoupling: An Economist's Perspective
Ensuring Consistent Environmental and Competition Policies in Electricity Markets
Recent Developments in U.S.-Mexico Electricity Trade: A Tale of Two Borders
“Renewable Energy Resources in the Baja
California Border Area and the Clean Development Mechanism” (in Spanish)
Cost Reflective Tariff Setting Approaches
Appropriate Regulatory Framework to Facilitate Entry of
Piped Gas into the Market
Improving Governance of the Energy Sector
Alternative Regulatory Structures and Rate Tariff Mechanisms: Practical
Approaches to Providing Low-Cost, Environmentally Responsible Energy and Avoiding Some Dangerous Pitfalls
Why is transmission not getting built?
Empirical Analyses of
Wholesale Electric Competition and Industry Restructuring
Economics and Energy Regulation: Implications and Challenges for the
Electric and Natural Gas Industries
“Déjà
vu All Over Again?” Nuclear Power in Future Electric Rate
Cases
...latest presentations only
Press releases
Three Mile Island shut down would be detrimental to Pennsylvania electricity
consumers, according to Bates White study
Bates White economist, Jonathan Lesser, speaks on
AF&PA FPO proposal at FERC conference
...all press releases
Bates White economists Jonathan A. Lesser and Leonardo R. Giacchino participate
in LSI Utility Rate Cases seminar
Bates White issues report on need for new high-voltage
transmission line in Virginia
Bates White economist Leonardo R. Giacchino featured at South African
National Energy Summit
Boris J. Steffen publishes article on regulations and
synergies in utility mergers in Financier Worldwide
Bates White Principal, Nicolás Puga, plays key role in
FERC U.S.-Mexico electricity interconnection case
Bates White economist Jonathan A. Lesser keynotes
and hosts Ohio Energy Law Seminar
Bates White economist Leonardo R. Giacchino featured at South African
National Energy Summit
Bates White economist Jonathan A. Lesser to speak at Western Energy
Institute Annual Meeting
Jonathan A. Lesser, Bates White economist, to present at LSI energy
regulation conference
International energy executive, Nicolás Puga, joins Bates
White’s Energy Practice
Command and Control Least Effective Approach to Environmental Issues,
According to Bates White Energy Regulation Expert, Jonathan A. Lesser
Electricity industry restructuring not the cause of consumers’ price
pain, according to Bates White economists Collin Cain and David DeRamus
Dr. Jonathan A. Lesser leads discussion
of New England forward capacity market at national energy conference
Dr. Jonathan A. Lesser to
speak at Energy in the Southwest 2006 Conference
Boris J.
Steffen to speak at Platts 3rd Annual Utility M&A conference
International economist,
Dr. Leonardo R. Giacchino, joins Bates White’s Energy Practice
Vermont Journal
of Environmental law invites Dr. Jonathan A. Lesser to participate
in its “Energy & the Environment” symposium
Mr.
Boris Steffen and Dr. Jonathan Lesser testify in the merger proceedings
of Exelon Corporation and Public Service Electric and Gas Company (PSEG)
Dr. Jonathan A.
Lesser to present on economic impacts of energy regulation
Mr. Collin Cain to
present on market challenges and opportunities for the nuclear power
industry
Bates White publishes article
on reliability markets in Public Utilities Fortnightly
Dr. Spencer Yang presents
on the impact of transmission constraints in a market power analysis
Dr. David DeRamus presents
at FERC conference on generation market power and affliate abuse
Halbert White invited
to speak at FTC conference on oil industry merger effects
Bates White
Principal Dr. Jonathan A. Lesser published in major utility journal
Energy expert Dr.
Jonathan A. Lesser presents at Northeast Public Power Association’s
2004 Annual Conference
Dr. Jonathan A. Lesser
joins Bates White’s Energy Practice
Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) invites Bates White
Partner Dr. David DeRamus to present at two technical conferences
Energy expert Dr. David DeRamus addresses Electric Power Supply
Association spring meeting
Dr. Jonathan A. Lesser
to deliver presentation on the economics of energy regulation
...latest press releases only
Publications
Cap and Trade
for Gasoline?
“Northern
Mexico Has Big Wind Potential; New Wires, Cross-Border Cooperation Needed,”
and “Mexico Could Be Wind Hotspot If Wires, Border Issues Are Solved”
...all publications
Report of the Independent Expert
in the Matter of the Public Utilities Commission Initial Decision in the 2008 Annual Review Proceeding
for Belize Electricity Limited
Challenges and Opportunities to Deliver Renewable Energy
from Baja California Norte to California (prepared for the California Energy Commission)
LSI
Tele-Briefing: State of New York v. EPA
Dr.
Jonathan Lesser and Dr. Guillermo Israilevich publish article on
capacity markets in Public Utilities Fortnightly
...latest publications only
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David
W. DeRamus, Ph.D., Partner |
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Leonardo R. Giacchino, Ph.D., Partner |
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Randal Heeb, Ph.D., Partner |
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Jonathan
A. Lesser, Ph.D., Partner |
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Boris
J. Steffen, M.M., C.P.A., C.D.B.V., Partner |
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Christopher Gulick, M.B.A., Principal |
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Kathleen King, Ph.D., Principal |
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Nicolás Puga, M.S., Principal |
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Collin
Cain, M.Sc., Manager |
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Guillermo
Israilevich, Ph.D., Manager |
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Spencer
S. Yang, Ph.D., Manager |
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