Reno Cassidy has over 29 years experience in both the Electric and Gas industries.  Mr. Cassidy was employed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and its predecessor, the Federal Power Commission from 1971 until October, 2000.  He has applied his expertise to a variety of complex issues relating to Electric Utility rates, and he has developed creative ratemaking approaches to addressing issues related to Electric Industry Financial Analysis; capital costs and capital structure; corporate operating costs; comparative financing of capital improvements; debt costs; as well as rate increase proposals.

Mr. Frangipane has over 29 years of experience in the energy industry.  He was employed by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and its predecessor, the Federal Power Commission for over 29 years.  Mr. Frangipane was formerly the Director, Division of Audits, Office of the Chief Accountant at the FERC where he directed audits of public utilities, natural gas companies and oil pipeline carriers.

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Mr. James Guest has over 32 years of experience in the electric, natural gas, and oil industries. Mr. Guest began his career in the energy industry in 1974 when he joined the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. During Mr. Guest’s tenure at the Commission, he served in various positions of increasing responsibilities, including as the Chief Accountant of the Commission.

Mr. Kirk is a PhD student in Economics at the University of Washington with specializations in Natural Resources and Econometrics.  Mr. Kirk assisted on a case for market-based rates for an oil pipeline at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 2006.  At BWMQ, Mr. Kirk has experience with market-based rate cases for natural gas storage facilities, the utilization of Order 678 of determining geographic and product markets, and applying economic theory and econometric analysis to explain energy related topics.

Mr. Knight has over 30 years of extensive experience with the natural gas pipeline, oil pipeline, and electric utility industries.  Mr. Knight was actively involved in rate litigation before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and its predecessor, the Federal Power Commission from 1975 to his retirement in 2005.   

Dr. David T. Kresge is founder and CEO of Emerson Global Consulting, LLC (EGC), a company providing strategic risk management consulting services to banks, financial institutions, and other companies extending credit to businesses.  EGC specializes in the design of risk management systems to automate the process of granting credit to businesses and then managing the resulting loan/credit portfolios, using advanced analytical risk rating techniques.  Through EGC, Dr. Kresge provides clients with the content expertise, real‑world experience, and consulting support to design and implement effective state‑of‑the‑art loan management systems.

Mr. Lee has worked in the regulated utility arena since 1977 as a Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) staff member, consultant and a utility manager.  His focus has primarily been on establishing the revenue requirements of regulated utilities.  He has appeared before federal and state regulatory bodies on issues involving electric, natural gas, and water and sewer firms.

Mr. Lucas has over 32 years experience in the natural gas, electric and oil industries.  Mr. Lucas began his career in 1971 at the Federal Power Commission/Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (“FERC”).  His work primarily involved depreciation studies and later in his career, allocation and rate design studies.  Mr. Lucas testified at FERC in numerous rate proceedings, many of which were precedent setting in the late 70’s with respect to depreciation.  In addition to his work in depreciation and rate design, in natural gas cases, Mr. Lucas has filed testimony on Plant Reclassification, Mileage Based Allocation, Expense related to Transportation for Others, and Storage Comparability Analyses.  Also, Mr. Lucas performed depreciation studies and recommended depreciation rates for FERC Staff’s cost of service studies in electric rate proceedings.  Mr. Lucas presented oil pipeline testimony concerning the proper depreciation rates and the impact of depreciation with respect to changed circumstances of grandfathered rates.  Mr. Lucas testified on “megawatt laundering” in one of three proceedings initiated by FERC to investigate instances of possible misconduct by companies doing business with Enron Power Marketing, Inc.

Mr. Niehaus has over 27 years of experience in the energy industry primarily in the areas covering the regulation of natural gas pipeline certificate, rate, and tariff matters.

Dr. Ogur has over thirty-three years of experience in market power, antitrust and competition analysis at Federal Regulatory Agencies. Dr. Ogur’s areas of expertise include development of competition analyses for the natural gas pipeline, oil pipeline, and electric utility industries; litigation strategies and expert economic testimony on market power, antitrust and competitive issues in litigated proceedings; and negotiation strategies to settle disputed issues. Dr. Ogur has testified in numerous proceedings before various federal regulatory agencies concerning market power, economic analysis and allocation and efficiency issues.

John Orecchio has been a rate and regulatory manager with over 29 years of experience and worked almost exclusively in the area of electric rate investigations at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and its predecessor, the Federal Power Commission.  As Director of the Division of Investigations, he was responsible for an directed the technical trial staff in formal investigations addressing all electric utility issues set for hearing by the FERC.

Mr. Taylor has over 27 years experience in the natural gas, electric, and oil industries.  He has been associated with Brown, Williams, Moorhead & Quinn, Inc. from September 2003 through the present.  He was employed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission from March 1979 through September 2003.  Prior to his employment with the Commission, Mr. Taylor worked for nine years as a highway engineer with the District of Columbia Department of Transportation, Bureau of Design, Engineering and Research.

Carol Terry began her energy career in 1976 when she went to work for the Federal Energy Administration (FEA) in Salt Lake City as an auditor. The FEA became part of the U.S. Department of Energy's Economic Regulatory Administration (ERA) in 1977. Ms. Terry transferred to ERA's Washington, DC, office in 1978, and transferred from there to FERC in October, 1979.