Energy
Christensen Associates possesses a unique blend of economic and engineering expertise that is required to evaluate business decisions and design profitable responses to legal and regulatory challenges in the restructuring energy industries.
Christensen Associates has a broad background in the analysis of the energy industry. Our staff has:
- designed restructuring plans
- developed wholesale and retail price strategies for gas and electricity
- assessed market power and evaluated transmission pricing strategies
- reviewed contracts, developed performance-based regulation strategies, and developed regulatory schemes for efficient regulation of distribution services.
Our integrated analyses and models allow us to identify the impacts of specific actions by market participants on the costs or prices of delivered energy. We have used these models to address three recurring issues:
Market Power Analysis:
- define relevant market
- diagnose and evaluate market power (in generation and transmission)
- conduct lost profits analysis
- evaluate pricing of transmission services
- quantify damages from anti-competitive behavior.
Contract Dispute Analysis:
- quantify the economic losses associated with outages
- assess economic impact of contract breach
- engineering analysis to diagnose performance failure
- quantify damages from breach of contract.
Transmission System Operating Procedures Analysis:
- reliability and security assessments
- congestion analysis
- engineering and economic analysis of operating policies, practices, and procedures.
For more information, contact Kelly Eakin.
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