Areas of Expertise:

Biofuels, Clean Energy, Coal, Electric Vehicles, Energy Economics, Energy Storage, Geothermal, Hydropower, Natural Gas, Power Sector, R&D, Regulation, Renewables, Solar, Wind

Additional Areas of Expertise:

Resource Planning, Energy Policy, Technology Forecasting & Assessment, Technology Scouting, Due Diligence, Technology Management, Technology Commercialization

Via my consulting group, I assist clients with strategic technology planning, technology assessment, due diligence, renewable energy management, and energy policy analysis. I have participated as an expert witness in several recent proceedings before the Colorado PUC including both rate cases and resource planning dockets. Though much of my recent work has been primarily in the renewable and alternative energy policy arena, I also consult on projects in other fields related to technology assessment. I am also a Lecturer in the Global Energy Management M.Sc. Program at the University of Colorado at Denver where I teach a course in 21st Century Global Energy Issues. From 2005 through 2011, I served on the Staff of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission where my principal role as a Professional Engineer and Senior Authority on Renewable Energy was to advise the commission on emerging technologies and markets in renewable and other alternative energy technologies (wind, solar, geothermal) and to analyze legislative and policy initiatives to promote clean energy generation.

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• "The problem as I see it is that offshore wind is not going to do one bit to lower that high cost of electricity in the NE.  If anything, it only bring"
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• "Rod, You very ably articulate the principal question that I have long advocated: "
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• "What I have a difficult time understanding is why we choose to pay exorbitant PPA prices for offshore wind energy when their are other less expensive "
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