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.