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Utility Rates Consultant Bruce Bacon Joins the Utilis Team

Cost-effective rate modelling services, backed by industry-leading experience

August 23, 2022 TORONTO, ON --

Utilis Consulting is excited to announce the arrival of its newest team member, Bruce Bacon effective September 1st, 2022. As a well-known Utility Rates Consultant with over forty years experience in the electricity and natural gas industries, Bruce brings a powerful set of skills to Utilis and its clients. Bruce has a proven record of success in managing the development of cost of service and cost allocation models, having acted as a consultant in the preparation of the Ontario Energy Board's Cost Allocation Model, and assisted in the preparation of over 100 distribution cost of service rate applications for over 45 utilities.

In bringing Bruce onto the Utilis Team, our objective is to give clients the best of all worlds in the provision of rate modelling services. Clients can expect cost-effective services which leverage the capabilities of the broader Utilis Team, coupled with the confidence that their submissions have been guided and reviewed by one of the sector’s most experienced and respected professionals. Aside from his technical expertise, Bruce is known for developing meaningful working relationships acting as a teacher and advisor to utility teams across the Province of Ontario.

As a part-time Utility Rates Consultant, Bruce will bring his wealth of knowledge and experience to bear by providing strategic advice, training, expert review, and proceeding support to Utilis’s clients.

To discuss needs or engagements where Bruce and the Utilis Team can help your organization, please email Utilis at admin@utilisconsulting.ca

For other Utilis Consulting offerings, contact Utilis Consulting at the following coordinates:

General Website: utilisconsulting.ca

Founders: Brandon.ott@utilisconsulting.ca, Andrew.mandyam@utilisconsulting.ca

Utilis Consulting Inc. is an Ontario-based consulting firm specializing in utility regulatory consulting, research, rate modelling, and intelligence services. With over 70 years of combined experience in Canadian energy regulation and utility management, Utilis has rapidly expanded since its founding in Q4 2020, providing value to electricity and natural gas distributors, generators, associations, and regulatory professionals.

Utilis Announces Innovation in Ontario Regulatory Research

New service helps regulatory professionals optimize resources, lower costs, and improve outcomes

March 3, 2022 TORONTO, ON --

Utilis Consulting is pleased to announce the launch of Utilis Pursuit; an Ontario Energy Board regulatory research accelerator service that improves the comprehensiveness, efficiency, and affordability of regulatory research for utilities and regulatory leaders.

Utilis Pursuit allows organizations to optimize their internal resources by leveraging the custom-built technology and third-party expertise of Utilis. Clients receive a report detailing all instances within their specified parameters where identified topics have been raised within the Ontario Energy Board public record. The Utilis Pursuit report catalogs each instance, providing links, with brief descriptions for the most relevant records. “Anyone engaging in regulatory research knows that the lowest value, and most time consuming, part of the process is the ‘search and find’ stage. It’s a frustrating exercise, because what we really want our experts to be working on is high-value analysis and strategy,” Brandon Ott, Founder and Partner of Utilis says. “Utilis Pursuit allows regulatory experts to skip ahead to analyzing meaningful information and preparing sound strategies on the basis of relevant records.”

Utilis Pursuit compliments Utilis’s flagship regulatory intelligence service, Utilis Connection, which allows regulatory professionals to be aware, be informed, and be strategic, through weekly regulatory briefings, topical special reports, and custom research and analysis. “Utilis Pursuit is a continuation of our effort to alleviate the pain points for regulatory staff,” Andrew Mandyam, Founder and Partner says. “Energy technology and governance change are accelerating, and regulators like the Ontario Energy Board are moving fast to keep ahead of it. It makes for a complex and challenging environment, at a time when regulatory teams are running incredibly lean. Our job is to find ways to help manage that burden in a cost-effective way, and Utilis Pursuit is a powerful new tool in the regulatory toolkit.”

To learn more about Utilis Pursuit and watch our launch video click here.