The CEA staff has substantial experience, in over 30 jurisdictions, providing assistance in the development and evaluation of innovative rate proposals and restructuring-related rate initiatives: service unbundling, stranded cost determination, mitigation and recovery, merchant function exit and associated services (e.g., default service, provider of last resort service), market-based rates, gas cost recovery/incentive mechanisms, performance based rates including caps, sharing, benchmarking and targeted incentives, and rate forecasting and backcasting.

The CEA staff has also provided significant ratemaking support surrounding corporate restructurings including corporate organization, and expected synergies resulting from proposed mergers for gas, electric, water and wastewater utilities.