John Tsoukalis

Mr. John Tsoukalis is a principal at The Brattle Group with educational training in economics and experience in electricity sector economics and regulation.

He has experience helping utilities with strategic planning initiatives on a broad range of topics, including integrating and evaluating emerging technologies and utility services; transmission development; participation in regional wholesale power markets; and assessing the regulatory and market risks associated with certain strategy bidding behaviors. His work experience includes performing a nodal production cost simulation of a regional wholesale power market, evaluating generation and transmission assets, developing strategic plans for integrating new technology, analyzing resource investment opportunities, and estimating the impact of dynamic rate designs.

Mr. Tsoukalis is also engaged with utility clients to determine their regulatory exposure due to bidding practices in the wholesale electricity markets. He has helped develop tests to detect the presence of uneconomic behavior and to assess the potential price distortion caused by this behavior. He is assisting several clients in defending against investigations or enforcement actions for allegedly manipulative behavior. Mr. Tsoukalis has supported the development of testimony to assist regulatory agencies with their design of appropriate tariff provisions to properly allow for adequate cost recovery while identifying and mitigating potentially manipulative behavior.

In addition, he has also garnered experience analyzing developments in the transmission sector, including regional transmission planning regimes, recent regulatory changes involving competitively sourced investment, and the changing drivers of transmission investment growth.