The NorthBridge Group - Economic and Strategic Consulting

The NorthBridge Group's staff has published a number of reports and articles in their fields of expertise.

Embrace Electric Competition Or Its Déjà Vu All Over Again, October 2008. Frank Huntowski, Neil Fisher, and Aaron Patterson.

Technical reports and book chapters written for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) include:

  • Volatility and Variance: Understanding Uncertainty of Energy Commodity Spot and Forward Prices, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2006. Thomas Parkinson
    Item No. TR-1012473

  • Static Equilibrium: Forecasting Long-Term Energy Prices, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2005. Thomas Parkinson
    Item No. TR-1010688

  • Investment/Retirement Dynamics: The Rise and Fall of the Forward Curve, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2002. Thomas Parkinson
    Item No. TR-1001559

  • Technical Update
    Representing Load Uncertainty: Stochastic Process Models and Examples
    , EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2002. Thomas Parkinson

  • Using Option Valuation Theory to Analyze Generation Plant Investment and Retirement Decisions, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 1996. Thomas Parkinson and Frank Huntowski
    Item No. TR-107635

  • Forward Price Forecasting for Power Market Valuation, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 1998. Thomas Parkinson
    Item No. TR-111860

  • Uncertainty Representation: Estimating Process Parameters for Forward Price Forecasting, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 1999. Erin O'Neill and Thomas Parkinson
    Item No. TR-114201

  • The Market Price of Risk: Implications for Electricity Price Forecasting, Asset Valuation and Portfolio Risk Management, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2000. Thomas Parkinson
    Item No. TR-1000637

  • Long-Term Volatility of Net Revenues: Implications for Generator Profitability and Value, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2003. Thomas Parkinson.
    Item No. TR-100220

To order any of these EPRI Publications, contact:

The EPRI Distribution Center
207 Coggins Drive
P.O. Box 23205
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
800-313-3774

Other publications:

  • Making Bilateral Competition Work, in Michael Einhorn and Riaz Siddiqi, eds., ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION PRICING AND TECHNOLOGY, Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.

  • Market Price Risks of Merchant Generation,THE ELECTRICITY JOURNAL, Seattle, WA: Volume 17, Issue 4, pp. 33-48, May 2004. Thomas Parkinson.

  • Making Bilateral Competition Work, chapter 5 of Electricity Transmission Pricing and Technology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts: 1996. Thomas Parkinson

  • Aligning Retail Rates with Market Prices, THE ELECTRICITY JOURNAL, Seattle, WA: Volume 10, Number 5, 1997. Bruce Phillips and Neil Fisher.

  • Whitepaper critique for Entergy:

    Truth In Advertising: A Realistic Analysis of the CSEF Report on Retail Competition in the Electric Industry, November 1996. David Lifland, Michael Schnitzer, and John Weber.
    ordering information