ETC staff has been involved with all the regulatory and market developments in the electric and gas utilities since 1972.  ETC provides a unique combination of expertise to conduct economic and technical analysis of regulatory, legislative, policy, market and litigation support issues.

Located in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area, ETC has ready access to data and resources from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and other U.S. Government agencies, trade associations and international organizations, which supplement its extensive in-house library.

The professional staff includes economists, electrical, mechanical and petroleum engineers, accountants, computer and information retrieval specialists, all with graduate degrees in their fields. In addition ETC has working relationships with experts in related fields who provide additional support as needed.

The firm's clients include major corporations, federal government agencies, law firms, state and local governments, municipalities, rural electric cooperatives, public utility commissions, state attorneys general, peoples' counsels and trade associations.

ETC specializes in all types of litigation support, environmental assessments and impact statements, economic accounting and engineering analysis and training.

ETC works in close cooperation with the client throughout the project and routinely provides progress reports to clients.

Some of ETC's current major projects include:

  • Assisting Delaware and Missouri Municipals in negotiating and renegotiating their power and gas supply contracts
  • Various issues related to restructuring and ISOs
  • Electric transmission rate negotiations
  • Distribution Cooperative buyouts from G & T Cooperatives
  • New gas distribution franchise
  • Retail rate design studies for Municipal Systems
  • Bypass study for the Department of Energy
  • Gas transportation option studies