Senior Staff Members

Paul Chernick, President

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Jonathan Wallach, Vice President

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Susan Geller, Senior Research Associate        

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Paul L. Chernick, president of Resource Insight, has twenty-nine years of experience in utility planning and regulation. Mr. Chernick has advised clients on a wide range of issues including restructuring policy, market price forecasts, market valuation, stranded cost and divestiture of generation assets, planning and ratemaking for central supply, energy efficiency and distributed resources, cost allocation and rate design, and environmental externalities. Mr. Chernick has testified in more than 225 regulatory and court proceedings and has performed a wide variety of studies for public agencies, nonprofit organizations, and corporations. SM, SB, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Jonathan F. Wallach, vice president of Resource Insight, has twenty-five years of experience in the field of energy-utility planning and regulation. Mr. Wallach’s expertise in energy-utility regulation and restructuring includes whole-sale- and retail-market restructuring, market valuation and securitization of generating assets and purchase contracts, and design and assessment of resource-planning strategies for regulated and competitive markets. Mr. Wallach currently advises clients on a range of restructuring-related issues, and has been tracking and negotiating the structure and operation of electric generation and transmission markets in the Northeast, mid-Atlantic, and Midwest regions. BA, Political Science, with honors, UC Berkeley; Phi Beta Kappa.
Susan C. Geller, senior research associate, joined the firm in 1992 after fourteen years as a utility rate analyst for the Massachusetts Attorney General. Her expertise encompasses rate design, cost-allocation and marginal-cost methodologies, least-cost resource planning and methods of cost recovery, design of resource bidding system, economics of proposed generation plant, and reliability of long-range demand forecasts. Recent projects: Evaluations of gas and electric least-cost planning, addressing issues related to estimating avoided costs and screening and designing DSM programs. MA, Public Policy, Harvard University Kennedy School of Government; BA, Economics, Harvard University.

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