Snavely King Majoros O’Connor & Lee Inc
Washington, DC

Kajal Kapur, PhD

Dr. Kapur has thirteen years of experience in energy and environment issues.  She has helped electric utilities develop deregulation programs by identifying new products and services and forming promotional strategies for the new products.  She has assisted gas utilities in the restructuring process by writing reports on changing business practices in the gas industry and performing benchmark studies of regulatory trends in the industry.  Dr. Kapur has provided training to international energy managers on important business practices in the United States electric industry by lecturing on topics related to product differentiation, customer satisfaction, education strategies and pricing of services. She has trained professionals on the pricing of power in a deregulated market, the novel pricing methods used by electricity suppliers and the implications of competitive pricing including economic development rates, green pricing and distributed power.

In addition to her consulting and training experience, Dr. Kapur has forecasting and testifying experience.  She has developed five and ten year annual forecasts of sales for a Mid-Atlantic company. She has reviewed forecasts of statewide electric energy demand and individual utility demand.  She has testified on six occasions before the Indiana Utility Regulatory Commission in electric and gas cases.  The issues covered in the testimony included rate design, plant construction, integrated resource planning, demand side management, environmental externalities, gas cost recovery mechanisms, and environmental compliance plans.  She has directed and participated in settlement processes for the approval of utility demand side management and environmental compliance plans.  She has helped prepare Integrated Resource planning guidelines for the State of Indiana.

Dr. Kapur holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Cornell University and an M.A. in Economics from the University of California, Davis. As part of her dissertation, in the field of Industrial Organization, she performed an econometric analysis of panel data and assessed concentration and profit adjustment in U.S. industries. She has taught economics and statistics to students at prominent U.S. universities and served as a reviewer for a prestigious international energy journal. She was invited to teach a class on public utility regulation at the University of Michigan, School of Management and to serve as an advisor for a leading group of energy professionals.