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The Utility Workshop Center is a leading provider of quality online seminars and downloads designed exclusively for the utility / energy industry and others involved in the utility industry. Formed in 2009, the Utility Workshop Center instructors have guided hundreds of utility professionals through dozens of topics. Our training focuses on the attendees - offering unique time for Q&A, follow-up, and additional support as desired.
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Our Instructors
Kenneth Skinner, Ph.D. MBA
Currently Vice President of Integral Analytics and technology columnist for Wiley Natural Gas & Electricity Journal, Dr. Skinner has over 15 years of energy industry experience. Prior to joining Integral Analytics, Dr. Skinner spent 5 years as the Derivative Structuring Manager for Sempra Energy Solutions, a national energy supplier, focused on developing retail commodity supply strategies including portfolio risk management, hedging strategy, and least-cost supply opportunities.
Having worked with several energy consulting companies including Summit Blue Consulting, RDI Consulting and PHB Hagler Bailly, Dr. Skinner has significant experience in economic analysis and modeling of energy demand, forward energy prices, financial derivatives, transmission and pipeline capacity, natural gas storage, and generation assets using econometric time-series and cross-sectional analysis, statistical methods, optimization principles, and real option valuation techniques.
Dr. Skinner holds a PhD from Colorado School of Mines in Mineral Economics, and a MBA from Regis University in Operations Management. He is fully trained in econometric methods, engineering principles, hedging and risk management principles, organizational development, optimization, and valuation techniques and has extensive experience with various software packages including Visual Basic, C++, SAS, SPSS, Crystal Ball, Matlab, GAMS, IREMM and ProSym.
Richard Stevie, Ph.D.
Dr. Richard Stevie has been Chief Economist for Duke Energy with over thirty years of experience in the utility industry. He has also been named as a Research Fellow for the Economics Center at the University of Cincinnati.
During his tenure with Duke Energy, Dr. Stevie managed several key analytical functions including economic forecasts, projections of energy sales and peak load demands, customer research on energy usage, market research, product development analytics, evaluation of energy efficiency cost-effectiveness, and measurement and verification of energy efficiency measure impacts. He has been involved in many regulatory proceedings and has provided expert witness testimony on numerous utility economic issues.
Dr. Stevie’s research interests include economic business cycles, energy markets, development of econometric forecasting models, assessment of energy efficiency regulatory recovery mechanisms, cost-effectiveness analysis of energy efficiency programs, and the integration of projected energy efficiency load impacts into forecasts of sales and peak demands. He has recently completed a paper entitled: “The Economics of Utility Energy Efficiency: A Different Perspective.”
Dr. Stevie received his undergraduate degree in economics from Thomas More College and his M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from the University of Cincinnati.
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