We advise utilities, large energy buyers, capital partners, and state regulators on the most consequential decisions of the decarbonization era. From integrated resource planning to wholesale market design.
The firm sits at the intersection of long-horizon planning, market microstructure, and the regulatory record. The three places where capital, policy and physics actually have to agree.
Integrated resource plans, decarbonization roadmaps, and transmission strategy for vertically integrated utilities and large load customers approaching firm-clean targets.
Wholesale market design, capacity construct reform, PPA structuring and energy procurement strategy across the seven U.S. ISO/RTOs and the bilateral West.
Expert testimony, rate case strategy, regulatory affairs and policy design before FERC, state commissions, ISO stakeholder processes and state legislatures.
Working papers, commission filings and short notes from Northgate fellows. Long-form first, signal over speed.
Why California's emerging "flexible demand" tariff regime cannot be reconciled with the 2013 IDER decision. And three pathways the Commission could take in the May ruling.
A counterfactual look at clearing prices in the July 2025 BRA, the role of accreditation reform, and what utilities should expect from the 2026/27 delivery year.
Mapping the residual emissions that hourly matching does and doesn't solve for. With implementation lessons from six advisory engagements in MISO and SPP.
Why the effective load-carrying capability convention is fraying under high storage penetration. And a proposed multi-state stochastic alternative tested against MISO data.
How Northgate counseled a top-10 investor-owned utility through a contested resource plan, a $4.8B settlement, and a politically split commission vote.
Over an 18-month engagement Northgate served as lead resource-planning advisor to a top-10 vertically integrated utility navigating a state mandate to decarbonize 70 percent of retail load by 2032. We rebuilt the capacity expansion model from scratch, designed three settlement-ready portfolios, and supported the General Counsel's office through 41 days of evidentiary hearings.
The Commission approved the consensus portfolio in a 3-2 vote in February 2026. Preserving roughly $1.1B of nominal customer savings versus the utility's filed plan and resolving a parallel intervenor docket without bifurcation.
Investor-owned utilities, public power, large commercial & industrial buyers, and state agencies. Many engagements are confidential; those below are public-record matters.
The transition isn't a technology problem. It's a coordination problem. Generation queues, transmission, rate design, and load growth each move on their own clock, and our job is to make those clocks tell the same time before a decision becomes irreversible.
Most engagements begin with a one-hour scoping discussion under a non-disclosure agreement. We respond to inquiries within two business days; competitive-position screens are completed within one week.
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