Clients choose Blue Ridge to provide expert analyses and recommendations regarding utility rate requests. When called upon, Blue Ridge will defend its analyses and recommendations in expert testimony before regulatory commissions. Blue Ridge and its team of subject-matter experts have proffered expert witness testimony pertaining to many utility-related subject matters, including:

• Revenue requirements
• Net operating income and rate base pro forma adjustments
• Depreciation
• Cost of service and rate design
• Power supply and gas cost recovery factors
• Cost of capital and return on equity
• Rate design and tariffs
• Rate decoupling
• Affiliate transactions and cost allocation
• Shared services costs
• Power and natural gas hedging and energy trading

Blue Ridge can support all aspects of a regulatory or rate case proceeding, including:

• Developing or evaluating revenue requirements and rate base models
• Providing a custom revenue requirements model that allows the client to see results from what-if scenarios
• Evaluating cost of service analyses / studies and issues
• Reviewing rate design and tariffs
• Preparing technical analyses for submission to the regulatory agencies and intervening parties
• Providing project management and analytical subject matter expertise to respond to data requests
• Providing defendable expert witness testimony and exhibits
• Assist client's attorneys with cross examination of other positions
• Using a relational database and secure web-based document repository as tools to administer and manage the data request process effectively