Rates & Regulatory Services for Utilities

CRA’s Rates & Regulatory experts support utilities in navigating complex rate and regulatory environments with rigorous analysis and strategic counsel. As utilities undertake large capital programs, accommodate new loads (such as data centers and electrification), and respond to affordability concerns, rate design and regulatory strategy become central to financial stability and stakeholder confidence. CRA helps utilities design rates, develop regulatory cases, and engage with stakeholders in ways that balance cost recovery, equity, and policy alignment.

Our teams combine deep experience in cost-of-service modeling, rate design, regulatory policy, finance, and stakeholder dynamics. We support utilities from early strategic planning through case preparation, testimony, and implementation, ensuring that proposals are analytically sound, clearly communicated, and defensible before commissions and consumer advocates.

Our services include:

• Cost-of-service & revenue requirement analysis
• Rate design & tariff development
• Affordability, equity & bill-impact analysis
• Performance-based & alternative regulation
• Cost of capital, ROE & capital structure testimony
• Capital recovery & regulatory strategy for major investments
• Policy & regulatory landscape assessment
• Regulatory case development & testimony
• Stakeholder engagement & settlement support
• Special tariffs for emerging loads & resources

Please contact energypractice@crai.com for more information.