Retail Planning and Pricing
CA Energy Consulting helps utilities take a proactive approach to increasingly competitive markets. We strategically assess their markets and their customers' competitive alternatives. We design the most profitable menus of pricing products for various customer segments. Our design process accounts for market uncertainty and considers customer product and supplier preferences as well as load responses to prices.

Survey Research and Analysis
CA Energy Consulting combines expertise in the design and implementation of both quantitative and qualitative data collection techniques to offer comprehensive data analysis services. Our experience includes mail, telephone, electronic, and mixed-mode surveys, as well as in-depth personal interviews and focus groups.

Power Engineering and Network Economics
CA Energy Consulting specializes in optimization and large-scale computational methods. We have developed tools for computing location-based marginal prices, the valuation of transmission rights, and the determination of security margins within detailed models of large electric power networks.

Transmission and Distribution
CA Energy Consulting continues to pioneer the development of transmission strategies and two-part tariffs with locational prices. We have developed innovative approaches to unbundling and pricing distribution services utilizing both marginal and embedded costs.

Wholesale Markets
CA Energy Consulting uses time series and structural methods to forecast wholesale prices, and generator bidding strategies for energy and reserves in competitive markets. We have identified the principles for organizing efficient reserve markets, and we have advised nations on restructuring generation services.

Regulatory Support
CA Energy Consulting provides services to energy utility clients on a wide array of regulatory issues. We are a well-known leader in the development of regulatory strategies for restructuring gas and electric utilities, and our client list includes numerous major utilities, trade associations, and regulatory commissions. We practice internationally in countries that range from Canada, Colombia, and Mexico to Australia and Japan. An important source of strength is our extensive work on related telecommunications; transportation; postal services; and energy market management, pricing, and costing issues. CA Energy Consulting staff have developed some of the fundamental methodologies used in Performance-Based Regulation (PBR) in the United States and abroad. We are known for state-of-the art productivity studies and performance benchmarking, including service quality incentives, and we have an impressive record on price cap regulation in a wide range of industries.

Event Planning
CA Energy Consulting provides complete event planning and implementation services. Our experienced staff helps clients design and conduct successful programs from both content and financial perspectives. We select sites that carefully match your program's objectives, recruit and work with speakers to minimize "no show" issues, create information-rich participant databases, and carefully manage all event costs.

Expert Testimony and Litigation Support
CA Energy Consulting provides expert testimony on a wide variety of economic matters, including regulated industries, market power, and commodity pricing.