About Crowley Energy Consulting
Crowley Energy Consulting provides its clients with technical litigation support covering a wide range of economic and rate making issues facing market participants in energy transmission industries concentrating on regulatory energy litigation matters before federal and state regulatory commissions.
Crowley Energy draws on broad and deep experience in regulatory litigation, bringing thorough analytical expertise and excellent communication skills to bear on behalf of clients facing costly rate adjustment cases encumbered with complex rate issues and challenging cost allocation methodologies.
Crowley Energy is available to consult with clients on regulatory rate matters prior to rate filings, complaint, protest, and compliance filings, as well as technical assistance with discovery matters, written testimony, depositions, and trial briefs.
Crowley Energy experience covers a broad horizon of litigation issues from the mundane cost-of-service check lists to subtle restraint-of-trade investigations; partnership income tax policies to market bidding strategies; natural resource production forecasts to rate base composition; depreciation accounting to market power analysis; pipeline rate design to reparations calculations.
Crowley Energy stands ready to assist clients in building a strong, well-grounded litigation strategy and an equitable resolution to regulatory energy transmission issues.
About Patrick Crowley
Patrick Crowley is a regulatory energy consultant with over 28 years experience as an economist and expert witness in energy litigation at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Crowley retired in early 2007 to form his own firm, Crowley Energy Consulting, which offers technical analysis & expert testimony in energy litigation involving natural gas pipeline, crude oil & refined oil product pipeline, and electric transmission matters before federal and state regulatory commissions.
Crowley graduated from DePaul University in Chicago with a Bachelor of Arts in economics in 1976 and a Master of Arts in mathematical economics in 1978. Crowley joined the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission in 1979. He held various positions within the FERC, gaining proficiency at long-term natural resource discovery & production forecasting, actuarial analysis of physical plant life span expectancies, depreciation accounting, regulatory cost-of-service rate making, rate base composition, cost allocation methodologies, partnership income tax allowance, energy market bidding platforms and strategies, pipeline rate design, master limited partnership income allocation structures, market power analysis, and market anomalies investigation.
Crowley has filed written testimony and been cross-examined in numerous rate cases at FERC, participated in hundreds of settlement negotiations, prepared and reviewed discovery for litigation, prepared and filed supporting exhibits and documentation in litigated rate cases, and led multi-disciplinary teams in rate case analysis and the investigation of energy market abuses.
As a consultant, Crowley has developed cost of service studies, rate design models, and comparative cost studies for clients. Crowley has prepared and filed written testimony, affidavits, and comments before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and taken the witness stand to defend those positions. He has assisted clients in developing settlement positions & derived on-site rate impacts of on-going discussions. Crowley has written and filed position papers on Commission issues.
Crowley is also an active volunteer in the preservation and restoration of Historic Congressional Cemetery, the first truly national cemetery. As Chairman of the Board of Directors, Crowley directs the strategic development of the organization, the rehabilitation of its physical infrastructure, and participates in many of its on-going conservation and outreach programs.
