Michael Deupree, Research Consultant

michaeldeupree@acadianconsulting.com

Michael Deupree is an expert in the analysis of economic and public policy issues in regulated industries. He has worked in consulting and public service for more than fifteen years, including several years at the Kansas Corporation Commission (“KCC”) and for more than a decade at Acadian Consulting Group (“ACG”).

Mr. Deupree has provided expert analyses and testimony in proceedings concerning the regulation of ratepayer-financed energy efficiency programs, resource planning, class cost of service and rate design, and net energy metering of distributed resources.  Mr. Deupree is well versed in most of the pressing policy issues and proposals in utility regulation that includes those associated with alternative regulation, regulatory lag, cost trackers, performance incentives, and mergers and acquisitions.  This also includes extensive experience in conducting embedded class cost of service studies and marginal cost of service analysis, as well as numerous traditional and emerging utility rate design issues such as residential demand-based rates.

Mr. Deupree has also served as a primary case manager at ACG since assuming the position of a Research Associate in Summer 2016, which continues in his current position as Senior Research Consultant.  In these roles he has served as the principle contact for clients and supervised ACG’s technical review and preparation of work product for dozens of ACG cases, including the preparation of expert reports and expert testimony.  Mr. Deupree has also worked closely with clients regarding settlement discussions, evidentiary hearing preparations, and assisting in developing post-hearing briefs.

Mr. Deupree holds an MA in Economics from the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, and a BA in Business Economics with minors in Political Science and Mathematics from Buena Vista University in Storm Lake, Iowa.