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President
rtabors@tcr-us.com EducationDSc (Honorary), Electrical Engineering, University of Strathclyde, Scotland
PhD, Geography and Economics, Maxwell School, Syracuse University MS, Geography and Economics, Maxwell School, Syracuse University BA, Biology, Dartmouth College |
Richard Tabors is an economist and scientist with 40 years of domestic and international experience in energy planning and pricing, international development, and water and wastewater systems planning. Dr. Tabors provides expert consulting and testimony on the design, structuring, and regulation of power markets. His strength in these roles is based upon his ability to develop and manage effective client- and problem-focused teams that bring intellectual originality and rigor to the challenges of energy markets.
Dr. Tabors has provided expert assistance and testimony in numerous energy sector regulatory and arbitration cases at the federal, state, and provincial levels throughout the United States and Canada. He has provided technical assistance on electricity markets and market development to policy makers, utilities, merchant power developers, and transmission companies in North America, Europe, Latin America, Australia, and the Middle East.
Dr. Tabors was a member of the MIT team that developed the theory of spot pricing upon which real-time pricing and locational marginal pricing of electricity and transmission services are based (Spot Pricing of Electricity, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988). Dr. Tabors subsequently led teams addressing the restructuring of power markets in the United Kingdom, throughout the United States, and in Canada. Dr. Tabors has held a variety of research and teaching positions at MIT including Assistant Director of the Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems and Associate Director of the Technology and Policy master’s program. Most recently Dr. Tabors was co-director of the MIT Energy Initiative’s Utility of the Future project. In addition to being President of TCR Dr. Tabors is Executive Vice President of NewGrid Inc and is a visiting professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
Prior to founding TCR in 2014, Dr. Tabors was Vice President and Energy Practice leader at Charles River Associates from 2004 to 2012. He was previously Founder and President of Tabors Caramanis & Associates from 1988 until its sale to Charles River Associates in 2004.
Dr. Tabors has provided expert assistance and testimony in numerous energy sector regulatory and arbitration cases at the federal, state, and provincial levels throughout the United States and Canada. He has provided technical assistance on electricity markets and market development to policy makers, utilities, merchant power developers, and transmission companies in North America, Europe, Latin America, Australia, and the Middle East.
Dr. Tabors was a member of the MIT team that developed the theory of spot pricing upon which real-time pricing and locational marginal pricing of electricity and transmission services are based (Spot Pricing of Electricity, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1988). Dr. Tabors subsequently led teams addressing the restructuring of power markets in the United Kingdom, throughout the United States, and in Canada. Dr. Tabors has held a variety of research and teaching positions at MIT including Assistant Director of the Laboratory for Electromagnetic and Electronic Systems and Associate Director of the Technology and Policy master’s program. Most recently Dr. Tabors was co-director of the MIT Energy Initiative’s Utility of the Future project. In addition to being President of TCR Dr. Tabors is Executive Vice President of NewGrid Inc and is a visiting professor of Electrical Engineering at the University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland.
Prior to founding TCR in 2014, Dr. Tabors was Vice President and Energy Practice leader at Charles River Associates from 2004 to 2012. He was previously Founder and President of Tabors Caramanis & Associates from 1988 until its sale to Charles River Associates in 2004.
