Michael Kline
Michael Kline, CFA is a principal in the Energy Practice with over 20 years of experience advising governments, utilities, developers, and law firms on retail and wholesale electricity markets.
Mr. Kline has spearheaded projects aimed at redesigning energy markets to value the reliability, energy, and clean attributes needed to accomplish the green energy transformation. He has assisted government agencies and utilities to develop plans to incorporate novel technologies including Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES), green hydrogen, and intermittent renewable generation to meet the needs of a cleaner and greener future, while ensuring reliability and minimizing costs to consumers.
Mr. Kline has developed and overseen power market simulations encompassing North America. He has provided clients nodal and zonal production cost simulations and analyzed environmental regulations and customer bill impacts using capacity expansion models. He has overseen studies covering efficient market design, regulatory impact analysis, and an assessment of the costs and benefits of policy and development decisions on different classes of market participants.
Mr. Kline has valued generation assets, estimated transmission benefits, and conducted environmental and regulatory policy impact analysis throughout the Eastern Interconnect, ERCOT, and WECC. He has also evaluated the competitive impact of the purchase and sale of FERC jurisdictional assets, and provided testimony, under Section 203 of the Federal Power Act.
Mr. Kline holds an MBA in Finance and Accounting from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, BS in International Economics from Georgetown University, and is a CFA® charter holder.