Brendan Larkin-Connolly is a regulatory specialist with more than 5 years’ experience working with public and private sector clients. He has experience working on projects with the World Bank (WB), Asian Development Bank (ADB), and Switzerland’s State Secretariat for Economic Affairs (SECO). Brendan is currently working with the World Bank to advise Kyrgyzstan on the development of a tariff setting methodology for electricity and district heating. He also recently developed training materials on tariff setting and service quality standards for a new water and wastewater services regulator in Mongolia.    

He also has considerable experience modeling wholesale energy markets. In 2011, he supported the development of expert testimony submitted on behalf of the California Parties in the FERC Refund Proceedings (FERC docket EL00-95 et al.) that stemmed from the California energy crisis in 2000-2001.  As part of the analysis for the testimony he built database models for identifying economic withholdings of power marketers during the California electricity crisis and estimated what the competitive price for electricity would have been in California absent market manipulation.

Brendan returned to DHInfrastructure in 2013 after spending two years as a staff member of the Massachusetts Department for Public Utilities (DPU), a state-level utilities regulator responsible for tariffs and service quality in the electricity, water, and natural gas sectors. As an analyst with the DPU, Brendan worked on a variety of regulatory cases providing him with an in-depth understanding of the regulatory process.  He has experience advising on rate base issues, revenue allocation, decoupling, capital cost recovery trackers, low income tariffs, and storm cost recovery.     

Brendan has attended courses at New Mexico’s Center for Public Utilities and Michigan State University’s Institute of Public Utilities. Brendan has a MS in Resource Economics from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a BA in Economics from the College of the Holy Cross.  