Energy Strategies
215 South State Street, Suite 200 , Salt Lake City, Utah, United States

Energy Strategies is an independent energy consulting firm founded in 1986. In its early years, it was focused on natural gas deregulation and increasing energy choice for consumers. More than thirty years later, Energy Strategies has grown into a firm that consistently provides tailored, technically grounded analysis and objective guidance in an increasingly complex energy market. Our clients include power producers, transmission developers, utilities, government agencies, non-profit organizations, and large energy users throughout North America.  We empower our clients to make informed decisions and capitalize on opportunities as markets, technologies, and policies evolve. Energy Strategies generates value for our clients by harnessing the expertise of our skilled, multi-disciplinary teams in the design and application of energy strategies and solutions. We can offer a team of consultants with the experience to provide unique insight on the most complex energy challenges. The wide range of energy industry knowledge of our consultants enables us to form robust project teams tailored to meet each clients specific project objectives.  Three decades of involvement in the energy industry places us in a unique position to understand market dynamics, technological advances, regulatory changes, and policy developments. Our breadth of experience enables clients to successfully navigate the complexities of regulated and deregulated energy markets, make confident decisions, and create new opportunities as energy markets evolve.

Energy Strategies is distinguished by the caliber of our expert consultants.

The talents and capabilities of our employees, including their initiative, creativity, technical competence and commitment are unparalleled. Our consultants are engineers, business strategists, economists, data analysts, and regulatory professionals who possess both the technical skills to perform powerful analyses and the ability to present findings in a manner relevant to the unique needs of each client. Our Principals commonly present in industry forums and provide expert testimony on behalf of our clients in regulatory proceedings.

Through our Market and Transmission Analysis advisory and consulting services, Energy Strategies helps solve our clients most nuanced and technical challenges.

While the work is complex, our approach to these engagements is simple: focus on the clients most critical questions, identify or develop the best data and tools to apply, perform precise analysis, and finally, develop technically supported and inventive insights that are concise and actionable.  We help our clients keep pace in todays dynamic environment by offering a wide range of services in the areas of power transmission and interconnection, and energy market and financial analysis. Our clients in this area include utilities, asset owners and developers, non-governmental organizations, and large consumers of electricity. These clients seek out our services to help them develop strategies, and identify, plan, and execute investments while considering and quantifying relevant risks and opportunities.   

We maintain a suite of analytic tools that help provide our clients insight in this space, some of which include:

• Nodal production cost modeling capabilities (GridView™) and experts in PacifiCorps GRID model;
• Power flow modeling tools (PowerWorld™) with access to Western and Eastern transmission system datasets;
• Energy storage assessment tool for studying project revenues from dynamic energy and ancillary service markets;
• OASIS data queries for available transfer capacity and other transmission intelligence;
• Project economic models for performing custom cash flow analysis for co-generation, power, and transmission project analysis;
• eCIM (electricity Carbon Impact Model), which is used to determine the impact on an entitys indirect greenhouse gas emissions based on energy investments and changes in operations;
• Energy Decision Risk Service (EDRS), a market exposure analysis tool used to structure and improve energy hedging decisions;
• Clean Power Plan compliance model used to evaluate potential compliance scenarios for states, companies, and individual generators;
• Price forecasting models for both natural gas and power;
• GIS and mapping tools for pricing, generator siting, and transmission analysis; 
• Rate analysis models to analyze gas and electric utility tariff rates and their impact on customers;
• Custom coding and data management tools that capture, analyze, and otherwise process large sets of data and results

TRANSMISSION AND INTERCONNECTION SERVICES

• Economic and reliability transmission project cost/benefit assessments
• Identification of transmission needs and project opportunities
• Evaluation of non-wires alternatives
• Transmission cost allocation and methodology development
• Generation interconnection support including procedural assistance and queue analysis
• Generator interconnection studies for transmission impacts, testing multiple locations
• Transmission open access and tariff support, including Available Transfer Capability (ATC) analysis, point-to-point transmission service, 
• Transmission Service Request support and other Open Access Same-Time Information System (OASIS) process and data support
• Independent management of FERC-regulated open solicitation for merchant project capacity

ENERGY MARKETS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS

• Generation curtailment and transmission congestion assessments through production cost modeling
• Custom nodal market price forecasts and basis risk studies
• Historical pricing analysis
• Electricity and natural gas price forecasting
• Comprehensive market and transmission-based generation development strategies
• Project economics and financial analysis and support
• Asset valuation, due diligence, contract review, investment analysis with deterministic and probabilistic modeling

When appropriate, we provide expert testimony to address issues of concern to our clients in regulatory proceedings that can help guide regulator decisions that are just and reasonable. Our areas of expertise include the following subjects:

• UTILITY REVENUE REQUIREMENTS
• COST ALLOCATION TO CUSTOMER CLASSES
• SPREAD OF RATES TO CUSTOMER CLASSES
• RATE DESIGN FOR COLLECTING THE APPROPRIATE REVENUES
• RATE ADJUSTMENT RIDERS
• PRUDENCY REVIEW OF INVESTMENT DECISIONS
• PRICING OF INDEPENDENT GENERATION, INCLUDING AVOIDED COSTS
• DECOUPLING