DR. REN ORANS
MANAGING PARTNER
Ren has
more than 20 years of experience in the energy industry. He
developed the design and use of area- and time-specific (ATS) marginal
costs for electric utilities. Using costs developed by Ren, PG&E
became the first electric utility in North America to use ATS costing
in its ratemaking. This seminal work led to detailed area costing applications
in pricing, marketing and planning for many utilities. He is an expert
in designing wholesale transmission tariffs and has served as an expert
witness on transmission rates for Canada’s three largest utilities
(BC Hydro, TransEnergie and Ontario Power Generation). He frequently
provides expert advice to large utilities on retail rate design and wholesale
transmission pricing. Ren holds a Ph.D. in Civil Engineering
from Stanford University and a BA in Economics from University of California
(Berkeley).