David Schoengold
Principal, MSB Energy Associates

Experience

Schoengold co-founded MSB Energy Associates in 1988 to provide planning and analytical services and litigation support to groups with an interest in public utility policy. Schoengold has served clients in 26 states and testified in 14 states.

He has analyzed the impact of utility restructuring proposals in California, Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, New York, Ohio, and Pennsylvania. These efforts included analyzing market power issues, plant valuation, and stranded costs.

Schoengold has been working with the Clean Air Task Force to develop a detailed database of information on the operating characteristic, emissions and expected future market value of U.S. power plants.

He has provided technical expertise to planning collaboratives, reviewed utility integrated resource plans and supply-side plans, developed independent integrated resource plans, analyzed sales promotion practices, reviewed and developed avoided costs, analyzed the impact of resource alternatives on emissions of pollutants, reviewed utility transmission planning studies, and developed alternative transmission plans including distributed resources as an option. Schoengold has testified in cases involving rates, resource planning, facility certification, administrative rules, externalities, independent power projects, public policy, and civil damages.

Background

Schoengold served on the staff of the Wisconsin Public Service Commission As Director of the Systems Analysis Bureau, he was responsible for electricity forecasting, generation and transmission planning, demand-side analysis, system modeling, fuel costs, renewable and alternative energy resources, natural gas planning, and emission reduction strategies. His work was a key basis for the PSC’s landmark decision in 1977 to impose a moratorium on new nuclear power plant development. As a result, Wisconsin avoided most of the nuclear power problems common in many other states.

Education

Bachelor of Science in Physics, Rutgers University.

Graduate studies in Physics, University of Chicago.

MSB Energy Associates, based out of Middleton Wisconsin, delivers comprehensive energy consulting services. We provide professional, timely, and cost-effective services to businesses, government agencies, consumer and environmental organizations, and utilities.

For more information about our services please email info@msbnrg.com.