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Principal Consultants
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| Michael J. McFadden is a management,
rate, regulatory affairs, finance, operations, supply planning
and procurement expert with more than 32 years experience in
the natural gas and electric utilities industries. He has appeared
as an expert witness and provided testimony in numerous hearings
before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), regulatory
Commissions in Colorado, Kansas, Georgia, Ohio, Wyoming, Utah,
and British Columbia, and U. S. District Court. Mr. McFadden
headed a combination natural gas, electric, and steam heat utility
company’s rate regulatory services department where he was responsible
for various submittals to regulatory agencies that had jurisdiction
over the company’s rates, facilities and services. In addition,
he previously served as chief financial officer for a natural
gas gathering, processing, and transmission company where he
was responsible for rate and regulatory affairs, financial and
managerial accounting, financial policy and planning, business
opportunity and financial analysis, strategic planning, and
information and computer administration.
He has participated in numerous rate cases and regulatory proceedings
and has dealt with such issues as utilization of purchased power,
economic dispatching of generating stations, coal inventory
measurement and management, generating station performance measures,
incentive cost recovery mechanisms for a nuclear generating
plant, generating plant maintenance schedules and management,
unit coal train economics and management, and the development
and administration of electric cost adjustment mechanisms. On
the gas side of the business, he has been involved in Order
636 restructuring strategies, buyouts of existing gas supply
contracts, development of gas transportation tariffs, practices
and procedures, development and implementation of gas purchasing
strategies, development of avoided costs, mains extensions policies
and producer take or pay issues.
Prior to founding McFadden Consulting Group, Inc., Mr. McFadden
was a principal with the international energy consulting firm
of Hagler Bailly Consulting, Inc. He has a BS in business
administration from Regis University and an MBA from the University
of Denver, and is a faculty member at the University of Phoenix,
where he has also served as finance and accounting area chair.
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| A. E. "Pete" Middents has
40 years of broad experience in all segments of the natural
gas industry. In 1993 he exercised an early retirement option
from Public Service Company of Colorado. As Senior Vice President
of Gas Operations for Public Service Company (a combination
gas and electric utility serving the majority of the state of
Colorado), Mr. Middents had full executive responsibility for
the Company's natural gas operations. He was also President
and a Director of Western Gas Supply Company (WestGas, a gas
gathering, processing, and transmission subsidiary company),
President and a Director of Fuel Resources Development Company
(Fuelco, a gas and oil exploration and production subsidiary
company), Chairman and a Director of Natural Fuels Corporation
(a full service natural gas vehicle subsidiary company), and
Vice President and a Director of Cheyenne Light, Fuel and Power
Company (a combination gas and electric utility serving a portion
of Wyoming). Mr. Middents also served as chairman and director
of the following companies: WestGas Interstate Gas Company,
WestGas Gathering, Inc. and WestGas TransColorado, Inc.
Mr. Middents joined the Public Service Company in 1960 as a
gas engineer. He held numerous management positions with WestGas
and Public Service Company prior to his election as Vice President
in 1986. He was promoted to Senior Vice President in 1988.
Since retiring from Public Service Company, Mr. Middents has
worked as an independent Natural Gas Industry consultant. His
consulting assignments have primarily been in the areas of restructuring
and privatization, new business development, gas supply planning
and procurement, economic feasibility and evaluation, overall
planning and engineering design (pipeline processing and distribution),
and natural gas marketing. Mr. Middents has a BS degree
in industrial engineering from Iowa State University.
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| Patrick W. McCarter has more than
35 years experience in the electric utility industry.
He was the senior vice president and highest-ranking officer
in the electric operations for Public Service Company of Colorado,
a large electric and natural gas utility. Mr. McCarter
was responsible for all electric operations, including fuel
procurement, purchased power, operation and maintenance of 3200
MW of thermal and hydro generation, operation and maintenance
of electric transmission and substations, system dispatch, short-
and long-term facility planning, engineering and construction
support of all electric facilities, and decommissioning of a
nuclear power plant. He was responsible for an annual
capital and operating budget of $855 million, and managed a
work force of 1,672 management, technical, and skilled professionals.
Previously, he was Vice President, Electric Production, where
he was responsible for the operation and maintenance of 3000
MW of generation, including base-load coal plants, peaking gas
turbines, and run-of-river hydro. His responsibilities included
fuel procurement for all thermal plants and water management
for the hydro and thermal plants. Mr. McCarter has BS
degree in mechanical engineering from the University of Colorado
at Boulder. |
| Randall E. Vickroy is a utility
business and corporate finance expert with more than 20 years
experience in the utility industry. Mr. Vickroy has been
involved in focused management audits for a number of gas companies
and is an expert in the area of affiliated transactions.
He has been a catalyst and facilitator in the evolution of utility
business practices from monopoly status to that of market competitors.
He developed and implemented corporate capital analysis and
budgeting systems at Public Service Company of Colorado in the
early 1980’s, which provided a correct business prioritization
for limited capital dollars. He incorporated and managed
the development of two financial subsidiaries and a special-purpose
leasing corporation at Public Service Company of Colorado, which
refinance over $500 million of assets with an annual cost savings
of over $15 million annually. He was also the key advisor
to the Public Service Company of Colorado Chief Financial Officer
for strategic issues such as mergers and acquisitions, non-regulated
co-generation and independent power production, and customer
financing packages for energy-related investments.
Mr. Vickroy has supplemented his extensive gas and electric
business experience with more than eight years as a senior management
consultant with Deloitte Consulting and The Liberty Consulting
Group. His consulting experience has focused on strategic
and executive-level financial policy and operations in all three
of the aforementioned utility businesses as each confronts deregulation.
He has performed numerous management audits of the financial,
planning, rate and accounting functions of utilities for a variety
of clients in 11 different jurisdictions. He has also
advised electric and gas companies regarding strategic business
strategies, financing, capital expenditures policies and cost
management. Mr. Vickroy brings a business and financial
focus to companies in the utilities field who are currently
discovering the importance of strategic cost management to competing
effectively. He obtained his BS degree in business administration
from Monmouth College and his MBA degree in finance from the
University of Denver.
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| Kerry S. Ramsey has more than 28
years experience in the gas supply planning and procurement,
natural gas and liquids marketing, business development, pipeline
engineering, wellhead, gathering, and plant operations, and
utility management. Mr. Ramsey is president of AMGAS Company,
which purchases and sells natural gas, propane, butane, and
other natural gas derivative products. AMGAS also provides
management consulting to utility companies, marketing companies,
industrial and commercial customers. Previously, he was
president of VESGAS Company where he was responsible for establishing
new gas markets and securing gas supplies, and for securing
interests in intrastate pipeline facilities. Mr. Ramsey
was extensively involved in the development of rules pertaining
to open access gas transportation in the restructuring of the
pipeline industry at both the national and state level. |
| Robert S. Scrivner has 24 years
experience in the utility industry and is an expert in the area
of cost of service, rate design, and specialized studies.
His clients have included municipal utilities, regulatory commissions,
governmental agencies, rural electric cooperatives, and industrial
and commercial clients. Mr. Scrivner has testified before
regulatory commissions in Colorado and Wyoming. He also
has experience in customer billing, electrical system analysis,
automated mapping, and facilities management. Previously,
Mr. Scrivner worked in the rates organization of a large investor-owned
natural gas, electric and steam utility where he was responsible
for various filings with state and federal regulatory agencies.
He holds a BS degree in finance from Colorado State University.
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| John H. Moore is a rate and regulatory
expert with 34 years experience in the utility regulatory field
involving gas, electric, and steam utility service. More
than 24 years of that experience has been in management positions.
Mr. Moore has presented expert testimony on numerous occasions
before state and federal regulatory agencies on the subjects
of regulatory policy, cost allocation, rate design, tariff terms
and conditions and other regulatory matters. Mr. Moore was director
of electric rates and technical services, responsible for Public
Service Company of Colorado, the largest investor-owned utility
in Colorado. In this position he was responsible for all
rates and tariffs for filed with the Colorado Commission, wholesale
electric rates filed with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission,
and Cheyenne Light Fuel and Power Company’s rates filed with
the Wyoming Commission. In these positions, Mr. Moore
assisted in the preparation of more than forty rate proceedings
and was involved with such issues as fuel cost adjustments,
purchases from qualifying facilities, demand side management
cost recovery, allocation of costs between various customer
classes, rate design, and incentive cost recovery mechanisms.
He was also responsible for the company’s load research program
in which the company conducted primary research on various customer
rate classes’ usage and load characteristics. Mr. Moore
has a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University
of Colorado and a BS degree in Industrial Construction Management
from Colorado State University. |
| John N. Peters has 38 years experience
in the natural gas utility industry. He has extensive
experience in the engineering, design, construction, and operation
of gathering, transmission, and distribution systems, including
compressor stations and processing plants. Mr. Peters
was division manager of gas operations for a natural gas gathering
and transmission company, responsible for 180 employees and
an annual O&M budget of $15 million and capital budgets
up to $50 million. In addition, Mr. Peters developed a
Natural Gas Vehicle (NGV) program and took it through a very
critical and successful research, testing, development, and
implementation phase, resulting in the conversion of more than
600 fleet vehicles to natural gas and the genesis of a fueling
station infrastructure throughout Colorado. In recent
years, Mr. Peters has been working as a consultant to the natural
gas industry and has been involved in various projects in Arizona,
Alaska, Nevada, Maryland, and Wyoming. Mr. Peters has
a BS degree from the University of Colorado in mechanical engineering.
He is a former member of the American Gas Association and the
Rocky Mountain Gas Association. |
| Charles H. Becker 35 years experience in the natural
gas industry. He has extensive experience in the engineering, design, construction, and operation
of distribution, transmission, storage, compression, processing, and gathering systems. Mr.
Becker the manager of distribution and transmission engineering for a large natural gas distribution
company. Prior to leaving this position and joining the McFadden Consulting Group, Mr. Becker
had planning responsibilities and overall responsibility for a gas system that served customers over
a multi-state service territory. His responsibility also included compliance with Department of
Transportation and Office of Pipeline Safety regulations as well as state regulations regarding safe
construction and operation of the gas system. Before that he was the manager of the transmission
engineering and construction division of a natural gas gathering and transmission company. He is a
former member of the American Gas Association, Distribution Engineering Committee and was on
the Board of Directors of the Rocky Mountain Gas Association. Mr. Becker has BS degrees in
Mechanical Engineering and Business Administration from the University of Colorado at Boulder
and a Masters of Business Administration degree from the University of Colorado at Denver.
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| Brenda E. Frauenhoff has 15 years
experience in the natural gas and electric utility industries
in accounting, auditing, economic and financial analysis, and
operations. Ms. Frauenhoff is a CPA and has extensive
experience in the electric utility and natural gas industries.
She was an audit manager for Ernst & Young, a Big Six accounting
firm, and was responsible for two of the Denver office’s largest
clients, including Public Service Company of Colorado, the largest
electric and gas utility in the State of Colorado. Previously,
she was responsible for accounting and financial reporting for
Gary Williams, a gas processing company that owned and operated
several gas processing plants. In addition, Ms. Frauenhoff
managed the accounting, financial reporting, billing and measurement
functions of an integrated natural gas transmission, gathering,
and processing company and its subsidiaries. In this position,
she helped develop an accounting system that segregated the
company’s regulated and non-regulated activities. She was also
responsible for providing technical accounting expertise to
the entire organization, and administering internal controls.
Previously, Ms. Frauenhoff has a BS degree in accounting from
the University of Northern Colorado and is a certified public
accountant.
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