[Kevin Praet (Adm)]

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! We are just under one week away from our February (2022) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation and want to get you excited about the session taking place. On Wednesday, February 16th at 11:00 AM CT, we’ll be joined by the following facilitator and panelists who will be leading a panel themed discussion around, “Cost of Service.”

Facilitator:
– David Baron, Director, Performance Management and Organizational Strategy (SoCalGas)
Panelists:
– Krista Shurtz, P.E., Director – Rates and Fuels (City Utilities of Springfield)
– Amelia Badders, Senior Director of Strategic Pricing and Cost Recovery (CPS Energy)
– Jordan Williams, Manager of Regulatory Rates (TECO-Peoples Gas)

Learn more about this session and our speakers below!

Session Description:

During this session, we will have several utility members discuss “Cost of Service,” including, but not limited to the following points:

– What is the cost of service to our customers?
– How much does it cost to serve customers compared to other utilities
– What analytics do utilities use in the collections process?
– Talk about the process… Utilities use different financial methods that sometimes make it difficult to quantify their costs. Who is tackling this problem and how is your utility doing it? How is your utility approaching it?

This will be an interactive discussion, so please come prepared with your questions to drive the conversation with our panelists and create a collaborative conversation.

Facilitator: David Baron, Director, Performance Management and Organizational Strategy (SoCalGas)

David has worked at SoCalGas since 2012, and his organization provides support to the rest of the company in Data Science, Process Improvement, Workforce Planning and Change Management.  Prior to SoCalGas, he spent many years leading a customer analytics consulting practice across multiple industries including Utilities.  He holds advanced degrees in Statistics, Operations Research and Business. 

Panelist: Krista Shurtz, P.E., Director – Rates and Fuels (City Utilities of Springfield)

Krista Shurtz is the Director of Rates and Fuels for City Utilities in Springfield, MO. She leads the team responsible for City Utilities’ rate program, provides revenue and fuels forecasts used in budgeting and long-range planning, and is responsible for City Utilities’ fuels management.Krista earned a Master of Science degree in environmental engineering from Clemson University during an Applied Health Physics Fellowship with the Department of Energy and a Bachelor of Science degree in civil engineering from the University of Kansas.She is a registered professional engineer. 

Panelists: Amelia Badders, Senior Director of Strategic Pricing and Cost Recovery (CPS Energy)

Amelia Badders serves as Interim Senior Director of Strategic Pricing & Cost Recovery at CPS Energy.  During her 27 years at the company, she has held a variety of leadership and technical roles starting out in utility cost of service and rate design as her first role at the utility. Amelia holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from East Carolina University and a Master of Sciencedegree in Management of Technology from the University of Texas at San Antonio. 

Panelist: Jordan Williams, Manager of Regulatory Rates, TECO-Peoples Gas (an Emera Company)

Jordan Williams has a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of South Florida. He has 10 years of utility experience, 8 with Tampa Electric and 2 with Peoples Gas System. His background includes econometric work in the forecasting department alongside being fluent in multiple computer coding languages. His current responsibilities include rate design, cost of service allocations, and load and revenue forecasting. 
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A calendar placeholder for this community conversation was sent out via my alternate email address (kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com). If you are not seeing a placeholder on your calendar for Wednesday, February 16th at 11:00 AM CT, please reach out to me so I can be sure you are forwarded the invite an alternate way.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting next week!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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Original Message:
Sent: 02-02-2022 14:30
From: Kevin Praet
Subject: Upcoming February (2022) Community Conversation

Hello Natural Gas Analytics Community Members,

I hope all is well! With February just kicking off, I wanted to reach out and get you excited for our February (2022) Natural Gas Analytics Community Conversation. On Wednesday, February 16th at 11:00 AM CT, we will be joined by the following facilitator and panelists who will be leading a discussion around, “Cost of Service.”

Facilitator:
– David Baron, Director, Performance Management and Organizational Strategy, SoCalGas

Panelists:
– Krista Shurtz, P.E., Director – Rates and Fuels, City Utilities in Springfield, MO
– Amelia Badders, Senior Director of Strategic Pricing and Cost Recovery, CPS Energy
– Jordan Williams, Manager of Regulatory Rates, TECO-Peoples Gas (an Emera Company)

I’ll be providing more information on this session one week prior to our meeting but you can always learn more about each of our upcoming Community Conversations on our Events Page HERE.

Our latest IT update allows me to send meeting placeholders directly to your calendars through my alternate email address kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com. I sent out invitations for this community, and each of our other communities, last month. If you did not receive a calendar invitation let me know so I can help troubleshoot. As this seems to be an issue with some of our members’ firewalls, we recommend whitelisting my new email address kpraet@sg.utilityanalytics.com to ensure any invites don’t go to your spam/junk folders.

Again please let me know if you have any questions/concerns or do not have a calendar placeholder on your calendar.

Thanks and I look forward to connecting with you all this month!

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Kevin Praet
Membership Coordinator
Utility Analytics Institute (UAI)
Boulder CO
315-440-3033
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