Wholesale Rate Consulting
Access extensive expertise to achieve appropriate and equitable wholesale rates
Robust ratemaking strategies ensure your end-users pay a fair price for energy.
Feel 100% confident about your wholesale rates
GDS delivers sweeping expertise in ratemaking theories and strategies. Bring in our consultants to address critical regulatory issues that impact your wholesale rates.
Resource planning expertise includes:
OATT tariffs & rates
Audit formula & stated rates
Transmission cost recovery models
Ancillary services rates
Depreciation rates
Cost of capital analysis
Allocated cost of service study and rate design
Accounting & tax expertise
Expert testimony
Effective technical expertise behind your rate filings
The GDS team provides cost-of-service advice and expert testimony to defend clients’ filings at FERC, challenge filings by others, and provide supporting litigation efforts.
Audit the rates you are charged
Deploy the GDS team to audit and verify the regulatory accounting, ratemaking principles, and cost-of-service data employed in your wholesale charges to ensure they are reasonable.
Wholesale rate strategies, plus an array of financial and regulatory support services
The GDS rates and regulatory consulting team utilizes its accounting, regulatory ratemaking, economics, finance and engineering expertise to support a broad range of regulatory needs.