Michael Deupree, Research Consultant

michaeldeupree@acadianconsulting.com

Michael Deupree is an expert in the analysis of economic and public policy issues in regulated industries. He has worked in consulting and public service for more than fourteen years, including several years at the Kansas Corporation Commission (“KCC”) and for more than a decade at ACG.

Mr. Deupree has provided expert analyses and testimony in proceedings concerning the regulation of ratepayer-financed energy efficiency programs. Mr. Deupree also participated in the regulatory review of a proposed environmental retrofit to an electric generation unit in compliance with EPA environmental regulations.

While at ACG, Mr. Deupree has conducted analyses into a variety of topics involving regulated utilities, such as integrated resource plans, performance and benefits of renewable energy systems and utility mergers and acquisitions. Mr. Deupree is well versed in most of the pressing policy issues and proposals in utility regulation that includes those associated with alternative regulation, regulatory lag, cost trackers, and performance incentives.  He also has extensive experience in conducting embedded class cost of service studies and marginal cost of service analysis, and has examined numerous traditional and emerging utility rate design issues.

Mr. Deupree has assisted in the examination and analysis of broader issues involving energy and the environment, such as the contracts and pricing structures of generation resources and the performance risks and the benefits associated with natural gas and LNG storage facilities.  He has extensive modeling experience on costs, benchmarking, and the development of value of solar models.

Mr. Deupree holds an MA in Economics from the University of Kansas and a BA in Business Economics with minors in Political Science and Mathematics from Buena Vista University in Iowa.