Utility Cost Recovery for Grid Investment: Prudence, CWIP, Riders, Overruns, Abandoned Projects

Mr. Musco is a trusted energy and economics advisor and witness, specializing in electric utilities, regulatory support, auction and market design, and prudence review of energy sector investments. He is a recognized expert adept at tackling complex economic challenges in the energy sector. Mr. Musco regularly consults and testifies on critical energy market and ISO/RTO issues, such as pricing in organized electricity markets, the economics of fuel and power purchases by utilities, mergers and acquisitions, prudence audits, FERC open access transmission issues, electric utility rates and tariffs, purchased power agreements, integrated resource planning, and electric utility costs and revenue requirements. He serves as an independent evaluator for utility regulators and electric utilities across North America for new and existing conventional and renewable generation, energy storage, and distributed energy resources. Mr. Musco has consulted on behalf of and in front of state and federal regulators on electric and natural gas economic, regulatory, and policy issues, and his experience includes working with more than 15 states and 5 Canadian provinces across North America. 

Mr. Sherrier is responsible for litigation, working with SELC’s energy team to accelerate Georgia’s clean energy transition, and lobbying for smart energy policy at the Georgia General Assembly. His outcomes include successfully defending a community group against baseless claims of defamation after they exercised their constitutional right to protest and speak in opposition to a polluting facility in their neighborhood.

Ms. Thompson provides regulatory and transactional advice to clients involved in the generation, marketing, and transmission of electric energy. She largely practices before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), especially regarding matters arising under the Federal Power Act (FPA) and the Public Utility Regulatory Policies Act of 1978 (PURPA). Ms. Thompson regularly advises clients on compliance and business issues implicated in transmission- and interconnection-related agreements. In addition to assisting clients in FERC matters, she advocates for clients in various rate case and tariff-related proceedings before, and disputes involving, the Bonneville Power Administration, CAISO, and other ISOs/RTOs across the U.S., as well as the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, to help protect client commercial interests and transmission rights.