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Paul Gromer is President of the Peregrine Energy Group, an energy consulting firm based in Boston, Massachusetts. Peregrine provides regulatory and strategic consulting services to competitive electricity providers, utilities, government agencies, energy service companies, renewable energy companies, and metering companies. Peregrine helps clients track and understand regulatory developments, and influence regulatory outcomes. Mr. Gromer concentrates on issues relating to the development of the competitive retail electric market, such as standard offer and default service design and pricing, competitive metering and billing, and supplier licensing. He has assisted clients in regulatory proceedings in New York, New Jersey, Ohio, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Maine, and Pennsylvania. Mr. Gromer is the author of two E Source reports regarding competitive metering: On Your Mark, Get Set, Slow: The Development of the Competitive Metering Market (2000); and Competition Comes to Metering: Regulatory Debates and Decisions (1999). Prior to founding Peregrine in 1992, Mr. Gromer was the Massachusetts Commissioner of Energy Resources and Chairman of the Massachusetts Energy Facilities Siting Council. Prior to that, Mr. Gromer practiced law with the Boston firm of Foley, Hoag & Eliot. He is a graduate of Middlebury College and Harvard Law School. Chris King is Chief Strategy Officer of eMeter Corporation, which provides time-based metering services to electric utilities. Prior to joining eMeter, Mr. King was founder and Chief Executive Officer of Utility.com, which provided competitive electricity and other utility services to over 50,000 customers in three states, including Pennsylvania. Earlier, Mr. King helped lead CellNet Data Systems, now a unit of Schlumberger, to becoming the largest advanced metering provider in the world, and, before that, he directed numerous demand-side customer programs at Pacific Gas & Electric. Mr. King is a frequent speaker and author on metering and other issues in electricity restructuring, has chaired various regulatory working groups, and has testified before Congress, state legislatures, and public utility commissions in several states. His passion for the beneficial role of technology in managing and reducing electricity use led him to create the American Energy Institute earlier this year, where he is Executive Director. Mr. King holds a B.S. and M.S. in environmental science from Stanford University, where he also earned a masters degree in business. Frank Wolak is a Professor of Economics at Stanford University. His fields of research are industrial organization and empirical economic analysis. He specializes in the study of privatization, competition and regulation in network industries such as electricity, telecommunications, water supply, natural gas and postal delivery services. He is the author of numerous academic articles on these topics.. He has worked extensively on the market design and monitoring of competitive electricity markets in California, New York, England and Wales, Norway and Sweden, Spain, Zealand, and Australia. He is a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research and an Research Associate of the University of California Energy Institute in Berkeley. Professor Wolak has served as a consultant to the California and U.S. Departments of Justice on market power issues in the telecommunications, electricity, and natural gas markets. He has also served as a consultant to the Federal Communications Commission and Postal Rate Commission on issues relating to competition in network industries. He is the Chairman of the Market Surveillance Committee for the Independent System Operator of the California Electricity Supply Industry. In this capacity, he has testified several time at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on issues relating to market monitoring and market power.
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