Carolyn A. Berry

Carolyn Berry, an energy economist, specializes in electricity markets, regulation, and investment, providing in-depth analysis and expert guidance.

Summary

Carolyn Berry specializes in market design and analysis, policy formation, and regulatory issues in the energy industry, including collaborating and advising on electric and gas market initiatives and strategy. She has a proven track record as an expert witness in litigated proceedings and in achieving settlement with adverse parties. Carolyn has extensive experience leading and collaborating with key players in the California electricity and gas markets. She has achieved resolution of energy litigation in federal courts.

Carolyn has prepared testimony, directed and performed technical analyses, and provided policy recommendations particularly to California energy companies on a wide array of issues: electricity market bidding and scheduling practices and market design, natural gas markets and costs, cost-allocation mechanisms, and refund and overcharge calculations. Additionally, she has worked with domestic and international clients on energy market issues such as decoupling, uplift costs, avoided costs, virtual bidding, gaming strategies in centralized auctions, transmission pricing, optimal allocation of transmission rights, and retail electricity markets. She also has extensive experience with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, having worked on a wide variety of topics, including mergers, deregulation, cost recovery, rate determination, auction markets, congestion management, and market monitoring.