Energy Resource Planning & Utility Analysis

Energy policy and infrastructure decisions require insightful economic modeling and analysis.

Sound resource and other energy decisions require deep knowledge and insight regarding infrastructure systems, including performance attributes, cost of new assets and relationship to other elements of the system and understanding of existing policies.  Aspen delivers those insights, providing the critical information and rigorous analysis needed to support sound decisions.

Aspen applies key analytic methods to natural gas and electricity infrastructure and policy decisions.  We analyze prices, forecast demand, prepare gas or energy balances, develop action plans to sustain reliability during critical periods, support clients participating in regulatory policy proceedings before state and federal regulators and build models.  Aspen understands utility finance and infrastructure finance, both bond and project finance, as well as the economic dispatch of electricity generating plants and the risk implications of the various disconnects between natural gas and electricity systems and markets.

In addition, Aspen provides expert witnesses for utility rate and utility policy cases. Aspen witnesses have testified in many states, addressing issues such as utility revenue requirements and cost allocation, rate design, and proposed cost recovery. 

Services include:

Economic Modeling and Studies

Energy Policy Development & Analyses

Resource Portfolio Planning

Cost-Benefit Analyses

Demand Forecasting

Rate and Risk Analysis

Market Behavior and Price Analysis

Utility Rate and Regulatory Policy Case Analysis

Expert Witness Testimony