Navigation

• About Us
• Careers
  • Opportunities
  • Application Information
  • IT Senior Project Manager
  • Strategy Consultants
  • Transmission Strategy Consultants
  • Nuclear Energy Engineers, Nuclear Generation Practice
  • Director, Utility Rates and Regulatory Services
  • Energy Consultants
  • Manager, Energy Efficiency Practice
  • Utilities Rate Professional, Cash Working Capital Expert
• Contact
• Debt Management System (brochure)
• Forgot Password
• FRST Webinar
• Home
• Insights signup
• MCR Experts Provide eLearning Opportunities
• MCR Online Demonstrations
• MCR Team
  • Frank Craig, Founding Partner
  • Len Rubin, Founding Partner
  • Tom Crooks, Vice President
  • Cindy Menhorn, Vice President
  • Jim Pardikes, Vice President
  • Tim Schlimpert, Vice President
  • Dave Thompson, Vice President
  • Mike Murphy, Vice President
  • Melanie Gillette, Director
  • Ron Kennedy, Director
  • Ed Schmidt, Director
  • Jacob Hannan, Manager
  • Patrick McDermott, Manager
  • Chris Nagle, Manager
  • Dan Rupp, Manager
  • Richard Milward, Lead Consultant
• Privacy Policy
• Profile
• Register – Registration
• Site Map
• Thanks for signing up
• Utility Transformation
  • What We Do
  • Insights
    • Developing Customer Products and Services with New Electro Technologies (white paper)
    • Electric Vehicles Are Here. Is Your EV Strategy Ready?
    • Electric Vehicles: An Antidote to Utility Revenue Erosion?
    • Making the Case for Microgrids
    • Solar and Storage: A Match Made in DERs Heaven
    • Why Decarbonization is A Smart Strategy (Regardless of What Happens with the Clean Power Plan)
  • Client Stories
    • Developing a set of C&I customer onsite products with new electro technologies
    • Helping a client develop a strategy to promote and stimulate growth in the local electric vehicle market
    • Helping an investor owned utility develop a business case for a community solar product offering
    • Helping an investor owned utility develop a Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) strategy
    • Helping an investor owned utility develop strategies to address the opportunities and threats of distributed generation
    • Understanding the value of financing consumer purchases to accelerate product adoption
• Financial Advisory
  • What We Do
  • Insights
    • Financial and Regulatory Strategy Tool
    • Capitalization Policy and Units of Property Integration (case study)
    • Debt Management System: Specifically Designed for Managing Electric Cooperative Debt (brochure)
    • Developing Robust Business Cases. A Proven Approach to Optimize G&T Capital Budgets in a Tight Credit Market (white paper)
    • Taking a Hard Look at Capital Spending. What are You Trying to Accomplish? (white paper)
    • The Emerging Risk from Distributed Generation. Quantifying the Impact for G&T Cooperatives and their Members (white paper)
    • Utility Financial Modeling: Spreadsheets Can Deliver Results (point of view)
  • Client Stories
    • Building a detailed rate forecast for a G&T with multiple rate classes
    • Developing a regulatory strategy capability for an IOU
    • Enabling a G&T utility to save millions and maintain its credit rating with an optimal environmental capital plan for its large coal units
    • Enabling Georgia Transmission Corporation to develop better long range plans and forecast short-term liquidity with FRST
    • Enhancing a distribution cooperative’s financial forecasting capabilities with FRST
    • Financial processes and systems: Custom power billing for Buckeye Power
    • Financial processes and systems: Integrating capitalization policies and units of property for a large utility merger
    • Helping a multi-district water utility calculate revenue requirements through implementation of an integrated regulatory analysis system
    • Helping an investor owned utility develop strategies to address the opportunities and threats of distributed generation
    • Helping Southern Minnesota Municipal Power Agency improve financial planning processes and better manage funding and reserves using FRST
    • Helping Wabash Valley Power Association implement an enterprise risk management program to better understand, communicate and manage business risk
    • Improving an investor owned utility’s financial planning and risk analysis capabilities with FRST
    • Saving an investor owned utility millions by utilizing capital management to develop an optimal environmental compliance plan for its coal generating assets
    • Supporting a diversified energy company’s risk management program by identifying and quantifying risks across their portfolio of businesses
    • Updating FRST™ with new regulatory strategy capabilities
• Energy Efficiency
  • What We Do
  • Insights
    • A Case Study in Evolving Utility Planning, Programs and Regulation: Missouri (white paper)
    • Avoided Gas Costs – The Key to Success in Energy Efficiency and More (white paper)
    • Beyond the Hype: A real-life example of gaining insights from AMI interval data (white paper)
    • Cost-Effectiveness Testing is the Battlefield of Utilities’ Future (thought piece)
    • EE Cost Effectiveness Where You Least Expect It (white paper)
    • Effective C&I Gas Energy Efficiency Programming. Presentation to the SGA (presentation)
    • Energy Efficiency Program Management and Reporting Systems (white paper)
    • Environmental Advocates Have Proposed a Sweeping New Approach to Regulating Utility Capital Investments and Earnings (News Alert)
    • How to Develop a Winning Game Plan When Codes and Standards Keep Moving the Goal Posts (thought piece)
    • Is it Time to Start Running Energy Efficiency as a Business? (thought piece)
    • MCR Energy Efficiency Experts to Speak at Healthcare Industry Forum (press release)
    • Optimizing Program EM&V Results at Duquesne Light Company (case study)
    • Pilots for the Changing World of Energy Efficiency (thought piece)
    • Revisiting Evolutions in Utility Planning, Programs and Regulation (white paper)
  • Client Stories
    • Enabling Pennsylvania American Water to achieve greater energy efficiencies with water infrastructure improvements
    • Forecasting electric vehicles and photovoltaic systems for Indianapolis Power & Light’s Integrated Resource Plan
    • Helping a large Midwest utility identify value by untangling a web of energy efficiency data
    • Helping a mid-size utility client deeply understand its low-income and government, non-profit and institutional markets
    • Helping a vertically integrated utility develop a strategy and roadmap to engaging stakeholders in a new regulatory framework that closely aligned integrated resource planning and energy efficiency
    • Helping a water company evaluate energy efficient process changes at their water plant
    • Helping Duquesne Light Company design and implement energy efficiency programs to meet its Pennsylvania Act 129 obligations over three multi-year phases
    • Helping Duquesne Light Company serve the low income market by facilitating multifamily passive house projects
    • Helping Duquesne Light Company train middle and high school students to become energy auditors who develop energy conservation measures in their own schools
    • Helping Duquesne Light partner with key customers to achieve significant energy savings through retro-commissioning programs
    • Helping Indianapolis Power and Light to develop a new energy efficiency tracking system to address an evolving regulatory framework
    • Using benchmarking to help a small gas utility identify a reasonable amount of energy efficiency savings as a percent of sales and corresponding annual budgets
• Regulatory Services
  • What We Do
  • Insights
    • A Call for Natural Gas Rate Reform. Why Revenue Decoupling May Not Provide Comprehensive Regulatory Solutions (white paper)
    • Advances in Alternative Ratemaking. The Georgia Rate Adjustment Mechanism. (white paper)
    • Becoming a More Effective Witness Course (brochure)
    • Coal Ash Disposal – The Topic Many Electric Utilities Need to Address (webinar)
    • Contemporary Ratemaking Course (brochure)
    • Cost of Service Tool (brochure)
    • Distributed Generation’s Time is Coming. Is Your Regulatory Strategy Ready? (white paper)
    • MCR Energy Efficiency Expert to Speak at Water Finance Conference (press release)
    • MCR Regulatory Services (brochure)
    • Ratemaking Approaches for a Slow-growth Environment (white paper)
    • Tariff Review: May the Force be with You (presentation)
    • The Age of Alternative Ratemaking (paper)
    • Top 5 Features a Cost of Service Model Must Have (point of view)
  • Client Stories
    • Assisting an investor owned utility meet stipulation requirements for filing a future general rate case
    • Assisting an investor owned utility provide reasonable rate options to its industrial customers
    • Assisting Citizens Electric and Wellsboro Electric analyze their internal processes in preparation for customer choice in Pennsylvania for their customers
    • Helping a multi-district water utility calculate revenue requirements through implementation of an integrated regulatory analysis system
    • Helping a natural gas utility in the Southeast achieve its rate adjustment goals and prepare its staff for work on future proceedings
    • Helping Arizona Public Service Company implement MCR’s Cost of Service Tool to achieve greater cost transparency
    • Helping Atmos Energy Corporation develop and negotiate an alternative ratemaking mechanism in Georgia
    • Supporting Duquesne Light Company to design, file and implement energy efficiency programs to meet its Pennsylvania Act 129 obligations
• Nuclear Generation
  • What We Do
  • Insights
    • Achieving Cost Optimization for a Pacific Northwest Generating Station (case study)
    • Achieving Significant O&M Reduction with Risk Informed Budgeting (white paper)
    • Achieving Significant O&M Reduction with Zero Base Budgeting (white paper)
    • Advanced Life Cycle Management Planning: Building Confidence in the Future (white paper)
    • Are Nuclear Plants Capitalizing All of the Costs They’re Entitled To? (brochure)
    • Can you implement Zero Base Budgeting at a nuclear utility without diluting your nuclear safety culture? (interview)
    • Capitalization Policy and Units of Property Integration (case study)
    • Making Budget Cuts a Reality (hot topic)
    • Nuclear Staffing Optimization: A Foundational Approach for the Most Important Utility Assets (white paper)
    • Reconcile Safety and Reliability with Cost: A Proven Approach to Optimize Project Spending (presentation)
    • Reconcile Safety and Reliability with Cost: A Proven Approach to Optimize Project Spending at Nuclear Power Plants (white paper)
    • Setting a Course to the North Star: A CNO’s Tool for Optimizing Nuclear Plant Costs (white paper)
    • Will wholesale market changes arrive in time to stop further nuclear plant shutdowns? What should operators do while they wait? (hot topic)
    • Zero Base Budgeting at a Canadian Nuclear Generation Station (case study)
  • Client Stories
    • Achieving annual cost targets at a Canadian nuclear generating station
    • Achieving cost reduction through risk informed budgeting for a top-10 municipal utility
    • Creating significant cost reductions at a Pacific Northwest generating station
    • Determining and managing long-term costs and reliability with life cycle management plans for a nuclear operation in the south
    • Helping a Generation Business Unit Optimize Preventive Maintenance Projects During an Outage
    • Helping a large dual unit station achieve significant reductions in O&M costs
    • Improving long range planning processes and systems for the operator of a large nuclear fleet
    • Integrating capitalization policies and units of property for a nuclear fleet merger
    • Optimizing capital spending for a large nuclear fleet
    • Undergoing cost reduction through risk informed budgeting for a large Southwest municipal utility
    • Updating a unit of property catalogue for a government utility
• Transmission Strategy
  • What We Do
  • Insights
    • Cost Allocation for the Midwest ISO. ATRR Whac-a-Mole? (white paper)
    • Going on the Offensive to Counter Dramatic Increases in Transmission Rates: Transmission Investing for Public Power and G&T Utilities (white paper)
    • MCR Formula Rate Review (brochure)
    • MCR Transmission Strategy Services (brochure)
    • MCR’s Cost and Rate Competitiveness Services (brochure)
    • MCR’s Review of Incumbent IOU Transmission Formula Rates (brochure)
    • MISO’s New Criteria for Market Efficiency Projects (white paper)
    • No End in Sight: Can Transmission Investment in MISO Continue at this Pace? (white paper)
    • Pulling the Transmission Trigger: Evaluating MISO Transmission Ownership for Municipal Agencies and G&Ts (white paper)
    • Running Transmission as a Business: How G&Ts Can Participate in Today’s Transmission Arms Race (white paper)
    • The Four Reasons Why Battery Storage Will Gain Traction in MISO and SPP (white paper)
    • The New Tax Law: Will a Lower Tax Rate for IOUs Impact the Advantage Public Power and Cooperatives Have in Transmission Investing? (point of view)
    • The Seven Potential Threats to the Transmission Business: Is Transmission in SPP Still a Solid Business? (white paper)
    • The Seven Potential Threats to the Transmission Business. Is Transmission in MISO Still a Solid Business? (white paper)
    • The Transmission Arms Race Continues: Are You Obtaining Your Share of Transmission Investment (white paper)
    • Transmission Investing in SPP: Are You Obtaining Your Share of Transmission Investment? (white paper)
    • Transmission Spending in PJM: Are You Obtaining Your Share of Transmission Investment? (white paper)
  • Client Stories
    • Conducting a review of a transmission formula rate (Transmission Formula Rate Analysis)
    • Conducting a review of the transmission formula rate of neighboring IOU (Transmission Formula Rate Analysis)
    • Conducting a review of the transmission formula rate of a nearby incumbent IOU (Transmission Formula Rate Analysis)
    • Developing a transmission formula rate template for a joint action agency (Transmission Formula Rate Analysis)
    • Conducting a transmission formula rate review and education of client staff for a joint action agency (Transmission Formula Rate Analysis)
    • Conducting a review of a transmission formula rate (Transmission Formula Rate Analysis)
    • Developing cost of capital expert testimony for joint action agency (FERC Filings)
    • Developing a Section 205 rate filing to change the formula rate template (FERC Filings)
    • Providing cost of capital expert testimony for a joint action agency (FERC Filings)
    • Developing transmission rate incentive filings at FERC for a joint action agency (FERC Filings)
    • Conducting a review of the transmission formula rate and developing a transmission revenue forecast (Strategic Economic Analysis)
    • Conducting an economic evaluation of an RTO membership (Strategic Economic Analysis)
    • Providing analysis and negotiation support for a municipal utility (Strategic Economic Analysis)
    • Developing a transmission business plan for a G&T Client (Strategic Economic Analysis)
    • Conducting a valuation of transmission capacity rights (Strategic Economic Analysis)
    • Providing economic analysis of a proposed new transmission investment for a G&T cooperative (Strategic Economic Analysis)
    • Quantifying economic benefits of joining an RTO as a transmission owner for a municipal utility (Strategic Economic Analysis)
    • Comparing transmission cost and rate competitiveness (Transmission Cost / Rate Competitiveness)
    • Analyzing the rate impact of joining an RTO (Transmission Cost/Rate Competitiveness)
    • Conducting a comparative capital investment analysis (Transmission Cost/Rate Competitiveness)