Mr. Gorman is a Managing Principal at BAI. He received Degrees of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale and Master of Business Administration from the University of Illinois at Springfield. Mr. Gorman has also done extensive graduate studies in Financial Economics. He earned the designation Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) from the CFA Institute.
 
Mr. Gorman has been in the consulting practice since 1990, and in the energy business since 1983. Mr. Gorman was employed by the Illinois Commerce Commission and held positions including Director of the Financial Analysis Department, Senior Analyst, Planning Analyst and Utility Engineer. Mr. Gorman was also employed by Merrill Lynch as a Financial Consultant. In this position, he consulted on cash management and investment strategies.

His responsibilities at BAI include project management, cost of capital studies, depreciation studies, financial integrity studies, system resource planning studies, alternative regulation plan/mechanisms, cost of service, rate design, production cost evaluations, commodity risk management, commodity procurement management, competitive supplier management and counterparty credit risk.

Project Work

Other Project Work

• Alberta
• Board of Public Utilities of Kansas City, Kansas
• City of Austin Electric Utility Council
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
• LaGrange, Georgia / Municipal Electric Authority of Georgia
• Newfoundland
• Nova Scotia 
• Salt River Project

Mr. Collins is a Managing Principal at BAI. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. He also earned a Master of Business Administration Degree from the University of Illinois at Springfield. He is a registered Engineer Intern in the state of Illinois.

Prior to joining BAI, Mr. Collins was a Planning Engineer at a Midwestern electric utility where he was involved in transmission, generation, and environmental projects. He also has utility regulatory experience through his employment with the Illinois Commerce Commission as an Economic Analyst in the Engineering Department of the Energy Division.  At BAI, Mr. Collins has participated in numerous regulated and competitive electricity, natural gas, water and wastewater related issues.

Project Work

Other Project Work

• Alberta
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
• Guam
  
• Manitoba
• Mexico
• Mid-America Interconnected Network (MAIN) Transmission Assessment Study Group
• Midcontinent Independent System Operator, Inc. (MISO)
• Nova Scotia
  
  

Mr. Phillips is a former Managing Principal at BAI. He received Degrees of Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Lawrence Institute of Technology and Master of Business Administration from Wayne State University and has taken graduate level courses in Economics at the College of Liberal Arts of Wayne State University and the University of Missouri.

Prior to entering the consulting field in 1979, Mr. Phillips was Acting Director of Revenue Requirements at The Detroit Edison Company. He was responsible for fuel and purchased power clauses, rate cases, economic studies, cost of service studies, depreciation studies and other related activities. He was the Manager of Rate Cases before the Michigan Public Service Commission and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and has testified on cost of service, rate base, income statement items, unit costs, power plant operations and related subjects.

Since 1979, Mr. Phillips has provided consulting services on virtually all aspects of electric and gas issues. He has provided testimony on a variety of subjects on more than 300 occasions. He has assisted clients in the development and evaluation of complex service options in the changing regulatory environment. Recent engagements have concentrated on electric and gas rate design, fuel cost recovery, merger activity and client cost reduction initiatives.

Project Work

Other Project Work

• City of New Orleans
• Lansing Board of Water and Light

Principal Advisor to:

• Carolina Industrial Group for Fair Utility Rates
• Indiana Industrial Energy Consumers, Inc.

Mr. Dauphinais is a Managing Principal at BAI. He received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Hartford. He has also completed several graduate level courses in Electric Power Engineering through the Engineering Outreach Program at the University of Idaho.

Prior to entering the consulting field in 1997, Mr. Dauphinais was a Senior Engineer with Northeast Utilities (NU). His work there included the preparation of numerous transmission studies involving load flow and stability analysis. He was also responsible for spearheading NU's open access transmission tariff filing and was instrumental in the development and implementation of NU's Open Access Same-Time Information System (OASIS). Mr. Dauphinais has testified on a variety of issues in over 100 regulatory proceedings before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and the public service commissions of 20 states and provinces. Mr. Dauphinais also has extensive experience with the procurement of electricity, resource planning, transmission line routing and Regional Transmission Organization issues. He is a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

Project Work

Other Project Work

• Alberta
• Edison Electric Institute
• Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI)
• Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC)
• Joint Transmission Services Information Network (JTSIN)
• Midwest Independent Transmission System Operator, Inc. (MISO) 
• New England Power Pool 
• North American Electric Reliability Corporation
• Northeast Power Coordinating Council

Honors:

• Awarded the NU Chairman's Award in 1993 for his work in power system stability analysis
• Awarded the NU Energy Resource Group President's Award in 1996 for his work in open access issues