Experts & Consultants

TCR brings extensive experience gained over the past 40 years to its engagements and have analyzed the design and operation of retail markets throughout the US and are currently focusing on a range of “utility of the future” issues including market design, valuation of distributed energy resources (DER), marginal carbon rates (MER) and rate design. The senior members of our team have consulted on the design and operation of wholesale power markets in the US, Canada, the UK, Europe, Australia, the Middle East and Mexico. ​

Interested in joining the team? Head to our careers page.

In-House Experts

Richard Tabors, Ph.D.
President

Richard is an economist and scientist with 40 years of domestic and international experience in energy planning and pricing and provides expert consulting and testimony on the design, structuring, and regulation of power markets.

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Michael Caramanis, Ph.D.
Principal

Michael is an engineer and professor with 40 years’ domestic and international experience as a consultant and utility regulator on the design, structuring, and regulation of power markets and researcher on spatiotemporal marginal costing of electricity in transmission and distribution networks.

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Alex Rudkevich, Ph.D.
Principal
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Alex is a mathematician and economist with over 30 years’ domestic and international experience as a consultant and expert witness on the design and modeling of power markets, and optimization of power systems and natural gas supply.

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Ninad Kumthekar
Director

Ninad is a mechanical engineer and energy analyst. His areas of expertise include valuation of generation assets as well as cost-benefit analyses of long-term clean energy contracts.
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Kieran Ahern
Senior Analyst

Kieran is an energy analyst at TCR. He holds an engineering degree from Dartmouth College.  
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Emma Naden
Associate

Emma is an energy industry analyst with expertise in electricity market policy and regulation and the modeling and analysis of electricity markets.

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Sidney Swearingen
Analyst

Sidney is an engineer and analyst with experience modeling and analyzing electric power markets, with a focus on the Northeastern United States.

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Joseph Silvers, P.E.
Senior Analyst

Joseph is an electrical engineer with more than 10 years' experience in the electric power industry.

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Bo Li
Analyst
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Bo is an engineer and analyst with experience in engineering consulting and data analytics.

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Alexander Derenchuk
Senior Analyst
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Alex is an engineer and energy market analyst with experience in economic and engineering modeling of power markets in the United States and Canada.

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Amanda Farnsworth, Ph.D.
Senior Analyst
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Amanda is an engineer and energy analyst with expertise in optimizing regional power system decarbonization schemes to be reliable and economical. Her work at TCR focuses on the PowerIntel data intelligence product.

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Consultants to TCR

​Dr. Ira Shavel
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Dr. Shavel is an energy economist with over 35 years of experience in the energy industry, specializing in the economics and operations of electric power systems, generation and transmission investment, and environmental compliance strategy.  
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Scott Englander

Scott Englander is an engineer with 30 years’ experience as a consultant on electricity market economics, design, and operation, renewables, transmission, and generation.

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Rick Hornby

Rick Hornby is an industrial engineer and energy policy analyst with 40 years’ experience as a consultant and expert witness on electricity and natural gas policy, planning and ratemaking issues in the United States and Canada.

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Dan Watkiss

Dan Watkiss is a trial and transactional attorney with over 30 years of domestic and international experience, primarily in economic regulation, antitrust and natural resources.
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