Jacob Thomas

Jacob specializes in data analytics, finance, economic analysis and quantitative research. He has over 20 years of experience working in GDS’ Distribution Services Department performing a variety of services for clients including retail and wholesale rate design, cost of service, demand-side management evaluation and impact analysis, load forecasting, load research, market research, economic impact analysis and various data mining applications. Jacob has been an expert witness in regulatory proceedings in several states, providing testimony in the areas of load research, cost of service, retail rate design, and weather normalization. He has co-authored Guides and papers and taught training sessions for several agencies and trade associations on a broad array of subjects including Distributed Energy Resource compensation and cost recovery, persistence evaluation of residential behavioral DSM programs, cost of service concepts and Statistically Adjusted End-Use load forecast modeling.