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How We Can Serve You Our services generally fall into four categories: (i) Market, RFP, and Auction Monitoring; (ii) Expert Witnessing; (iii) Policy Advisory; and (iv) Investment Advisory.
Market, RFP, and Auction Monitoring
At present, our primary line of business is Market, RFP, and Auction Monitoring. In all of this work our focus is on getting the best deal possible for ratepayers in terms of price, risk, reliability, and environmental performance. Our experience is best illustrated by the following list of recent, high profile engagements: Boston Pacific brings a full range of skills to these monitoring engagements with expertise in market design, market power measurement and mitigation, auction theory, finance and risk management, regulatory policy, and computer modeling.
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Expert Witnessing
We have submitted testimonies, affidavits, expert reports or comments to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on 30 occasions, to 18 state regulatory commissions (some on multiple occasions), in arbitrations, in State Court, in Federal Court, to a City Council, before two Canadian Provincial Boards, and before a Congressional Subcommittee. Our experts provide effective testimony backed by sophisticated quantitative economic analyses. Three examples illustrate our experience: Policy Advisory Our knowledge of regulatory policy, in general, and the rules of power markets around the country, in particular, allows us to provide insights to key policymakers and market participants. We prepared one report on trends in electricity prices during the emerging competitive regime from 1980 to 2001, which is entitled Assessing the "Good Old Days" of Cost-Plus Regulation. And, we prepared a research paper entitled Still Waters Run Deep, which measured price volatility in nine markets and assessed the possible impact of price controls. In our role as market monitor for SPP, we prepared a report for the SPP Board of Directors entitled An Assessment of Price Volatility in Recent Deployment Tests for the SPP EIS Market. Working with the internal Market Monitoring Unit (MMU) in 2007 and 2008, Boston Pacific developed an estimate of the trade benefits from the first year of operation of SPP's spot market for energy. Also, we prepared a report entitled Getting the Best Deal for Electric Utility Customers, which is a guide to designing, implementing and monitoring competitive solicitations in the electricity business. Investment Advisory In the past, we gained extensive experience in helping our clients buy, sell, develop, and manage assets in the electricity business in the U.S. and around the world. Our investment advisory work often included market price forecasts, transmission assessments, financial modeling, and financial due diligence. For example: In 2000, we were one of the financial advisors on the $300 million sale of Columbia Electric. We have worked potential investments throughout North America and in more than two dozen countries around the world.
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