Collin Cain, MSc

Collin Cain is an established energy expert offering advisory services and testimony on contract damages, investment due diligence, market design, system planning, price forecasting, and regulatory policy.

Collin Cain chairs the Energy Practice at Bates White. He specializes in economic evaluation of utility transmission and generation investment, power supply procurement, and market power. He has extensive experience in developing energy market pricing and risk analysis models and has applied these models in a variety of consulting assignments to value generation assets and power supply contracts and to develop supply hedging strategies. Collin assists clients in developing regulatory strategies and has provided expert testimony in both regulatory and private legal proceedings. He has undertaken strategic advisory work on issues such as asset divestment, stranded cost recovery, and rate unbundling. Collin also applies his expertise in forensic analysis of the conduct and application of forecasts, market evaluation, and risk assessment by contract counterparties.

Collin has provided expert testimony on market power, supply procurement, power market modeling, cost/benefit analysis, cost allocation, contract damages, and energy market bidding behavior. He has undertaken strategic advisory work on issues such as plant valuation, asset divestment, stranded cost recovery, and rate unbundling. Collin's expertise includes market design, regulatory analysis, and auction development and implementation.