Retail Rate Consulting
Feel confident that end users can get the power they need for an affordable price
Deploy innovative, targeted strategies to achieve just and reasonable retail rates
Aggressive ratemaking helps you navigate the nonstop evolution of retail power markets
Apply our unmatched flexibility and consultative approach to retail ratemaking. The GDS team delivers broad expertise in all areas of retail ratemaking and regulatory strategy.
Resource planning expertise includes:
Retail rates
Distributed generation
Interconnection and net metering
Expert testimony
Time of use and innovative rate design
Line extensions
Unbundled cost of service analysis
Competitive pricing strategies
Demand-side management analysis
Traditional retail rate design
Load forecasting
Policy development
Marginal cost analysis
Financial forecasting
Depreciation rates
Revenue requirements
Accounting & tax expertise
Cost of capital analysis
Merger, acquisition, and valuation studies
Adaptive solutions for modern energy economics
Recover fixed costs in a constantly fluctuating energy environment. GDS ratemaking strategies account for consumption patterns, emerging technologies, and load data.
Utilize innovative pricing designs
From time-of-use to critical peak pricing and other dynamic pricing arrangements, the GDS rates and regulatory team develops unique strategies to help you recover costs.
Technical expert services for all aspects of a rate case
Expansive accounting, regulatory ratemaking, economics, finance, and engineering expertise to support a broad range of regulatory needs.
Setting retail rates doesn’t have to be a struggle
In today’s energy landscape, a variety of novel and rapidly changing factors influence utilities’ ability to recoup costs. From smart devices to EVs and battery storage technologies, consumer choices have a major impact on overall energy use. The GDS team helps utilities devise creative and forward-thinking ratemaking strategies that ensure cost recovery while keeping power affordable for member-owners or customers.
Broad spectrum retail ratemaking and data analysis services
Retail rate consulting
Data analysis
Litigation support
Rate studies
Cost recovery
Financial services
Revenue requirements
Accounting & tax expertise
Cost of capital analysis
Depreciation rates