Brent A. Saylor is a Principal of GDS and currently works in the areas of wholesale and retail rate studies, cost of service analyses, financial forecasts and other financial and rate design consulting services. He has worked with distribution cooperative, municipal, and generation and transmission (G&T) cooperative utilities to successfully design, implement and administer retail and wholesale rates. Mr. Saylor has extensive experience with both traditional cost of service and ratemaking techniques as well as time-based and dynamic pricing alternatives such as Critical Peak Pricing and Real-Time Pricing structures. Brent has experience working with utilities in the design of net metering rates as well as rates to address fixed cost recovery impacted by the installation of distributed energy resources. He also has conducted reviews of demand response programs for utilities to evaluate program benefits and the alignment of pricing incentives with cost savings for the utility and customer perspectives.