Key Staff

Joel Bluestein, President

E. Harry Vidas, Vice President, Energy

K.G. Duleep, Managing Director, Transportation

Bruce Henning, Director, Regulatory and Market Analysis

Kevin Petak, Director, Energy Modeling and Forecasting

Bruce Hedman, Director, Distributed Generation Markets and Technology

Richard (Rick) Tidball, Director, Energy Technologies

Joel Bluestein
President


Joel Bluestein, President of Energy and Environmental Analysis, Inc. (EEA), is a nationally recognized expert on the market impacts of environmental regulation. Mr. Bluestein has been tracking and analyzing the development and market impacts of the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1990 since their inception, in particular as they affect the power generation and industrial sectors. He is an expert on emission trading programs and has been directly involved in the development of such programs including the Ozone Transport Region NOx Budget program, the Open Market Trading Rule, OTAG recommendations on emissions trading, the SIP call NOx cap and trade program and issues related to carbon trading. In so doing, he has analyzed numerous environmental policy options and their impacts on technology and emissions markets. He also advises clients on the strategic value of investments related to emissions trading markets. Mr. Bluestein has worked in the energy and environmental consulting field for over 20 years. His work has included technology and market assessment work, R&D planning, energy conservation project analysis and long term energy demand forecasting, among other topics. He holds a degree in Mechanical Engineering from MIT and is a registered Professional Engineer.

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E. Harry Vidas
Vice President, Energy


Mr. Vidas, Vice President, Energy, leads a team of geologists, engineers and economists who study available supplies of natural gas and oil. He has also directed projects related to natural gas transmission, storage and end use markets; electric utility fuel use, price and capacity forecasting; and design and implementation of management information and planning systems. Over the last fifteen years, Mr. Vidas has directed the development of the Hydrocarbon Supply Model, an analytical tool used by the Gas Research Institute, National Petroleum Council and several pipeline and natural gas producing companies to forecast long-term North American gas markets. He is also currently directing the operation of EEA's Gas Market Data and Forecasting System to study monthly spot gas markets and utilization of gas pipeline capacity in North America. Mr. Vidas recently completed a study for the INGAA Foundation on the downstream infrastructure requirements of supplying a 30 Tcf market in the United States. He also was the lead consultant to the National Petroleum Council on its new natural gas study completed early in 2000. Mr. Vidas received a M.A. in International Studies from Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies and a B.A. in History and Economics from Dartmouth College.

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K. G. Duleep
Managing Director, Transportation


Mr. Duleep, Managing Director, Transportation, is an internationally recognized expert on vehicular fuel economy and emissions issues. He has been involved with automotive technology, fuel economy, and emissions issues for over 20 years and has directed studies evaluating new technologies for vehicular engine and fuel combinations including methanol, natural gas, and other alternative fueled vehicles. He has been directly involved in EEA's development of advanced forecasting models, several of which are used by U.S. EPA and U.S. DOE to forecast national vehicle and transportation consumption trends. Mr. Duleep has completed projects for the U.S. and state government, Canada, Sweden, Australia, Taiwan and other countries where his technology evaluations and forecasts have been the basis for automotive regulation. He has testified on transportation technology issues for the U.S. Congress during debates on the Clean Air Act and CAFE (fuel economy) standards. Mr. Duleep also advises a number of auto manufacturers on fuel economy and emissions issues. Mr. Duleep received a MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania, and a dual MS in Aerospace Engineering/Computer Information and Control Engineering from the University of Michigan.

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Bruce B. Henning
Director, Regulatory and Market Analysis


Bruce Henning, Director, Regulatory and Market Analysis, has worked in the area of natural gas and energy economics for 24 years. Mr. Henning is an expert on natural gas regulatory issues including pipeline and distribution company rates and rate design. He assists clients with regulatory analysis, litigation support and testimony and competitive analysis on issues including gas supply planning, gas pricing and strategic and competitive analysis. Mr. Henning testified before the United States Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources on the relationship between gas and electric markets in California and the Senate Committee on Governmental Affairs on the impact of the Enron bankruptcy on electricity and gas markets. Mr. Henning developed a framework for applying Decision-based Cost Analysis for a Midwest LDC service and rates evaluation and has provided analysis of innovative rate design alternatives including price cap regulation, performance-based rates, and benchmarked rates. FERC Order Nos. 637 and 637-a cited Mr. Henning's work. Prior to joining EEA, Mr. Henning served as the Chief Economist for the American Gas Association. In his 15 years at AGA, he was responsible for economic analysis of gas utility regulation and FERC pipeline regulation, short and long term energy and economic forecasts and modeling, and the statistics publications and analysis of AGA. He was a member of the FERC Pipeline Competition Task Force and the NARUC Technical Advisors Groups for Gas Integrated Resource Planning. He has served as an instructor for Gas Rates Fundamentals at the University of Wisconsin and Advanced Ratemaking for Gas Utilities at the University of Maryland. Mr. Henning received his B.S. in Economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, completing his thesis under Robert Solow, Nobel Laureate in Economics.

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Kevin R. Petak
Director, Energy Modeling and Forecasting


Kevin Petak, Director, Energy Modeling and Forecasting, has over 16 years experience in the energy industry. Since joining EEA in June of 1993, Mr. Petak has directed numerous energy market analyses to support strategic planning needs at energy companies, including natural gas producers, pipelines, and energy marketing affiliates. These analyses have investigated the impact of pipeline expansions on gas prices, the effect of weather and oil prices on gas markets, strategies to comply with stricter emissions regulations, use of oil backup in power generation to assure system reliability, and the impact of declining productivity on gas price. These analyses have been widely used to support facilities/fuels/contracts management and planning, mergers and acquisitions, investment decisions, risk management, and hedge strategies. Mr. Petak leads the analysis and modeling to produce the annual Baseline Projection for GRI. In addition, he co-directed work for the INGAA "30 Tcf" market analysis and the recently completed study on the North American natural gas market for the National Petroleum Council. Much of Mr. Petak's work focuses on projecting growth and prices for the North American natural gas market. This work relies on EEA's Gas Market Data and Forecasting System, a modeling system he co-developed. The Gas Market Data and Forecasting System is also the primary tool used for EEA's energy subscription services, which Mr. Petak has co-developed. Prior to joining EEA, Mr. Petak worked for nine years in Reservoir Engineering with Halliburton Company, a major energy services provider. While at Halliburton, he was responsible for reservoir, well test, and fracturing analysis. He has numerous industry publications in the areas of well test analysis and reservoir modeling. Mr. Petak has a M.S. in Business from the University of Texas at Dallas and a B.S. in Petroleum and Natural Gas Engineering from the Pennsylvania State University.

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Bruce Hedman
Director, Distributed Generation Markets and Technology


Bruce Hedman, Director, Distributed Generation Markets and Technology has over 20 years experience in energy and environmental technology development, new product commercialization, and market research and development. Dr. Hedman was formerly a Vice President at Onsite Energy. Dr. Hedman was Executive Director of the Industrial Center Inc. a natural gas industry technology transfer and market development organization. Prior to this, he was Senior Program Manager at Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratory's Washington, DC offices, providing strategic planning and policy analysis support on natural gas issues and end-use research, development and commercialization. Dr. Hedman started his career at the Gas Research Institute in Chicago, holding a variety of research management positions in power generation, alternative fueled vehicles and industrial end-use. When he left GRI in 1994, he was Group Manager, Industrial and Power Generation Products. Dr. Hedman is treasurer of the United States Combined Heat and Power Association and is an inductee in the American Gas Association's Industrial and Commercial Hall of Flame. Dr. Hedman has a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

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Rick Tidball
Director, Energy Technologies


Mr. Tidball, Director, Energy Technologies has over 20 years of experience related to research, development, evaluation, and commercialization of advanced technologies. Mr. Tidball joined EEA in 2004 and manages EEA's West Coast office, which is located near Seattle, Washington. Prior to Energy and Environmental Analysis, Mr. Tidball was Vice President of Energy International. Over the course of 12 years at Energy International, Mr. Tidball managed a diverse range of projects related to technologies such as gas cooling, distributed generation, energy storage, natural gas vehicles, and natural gas distribution. Prior to Energy International, Mr. Tidball was employed by Alzeta Corporation, and contributed to the development and commercialization of several low-NOx high-efficiency combustion technologies for stationary end-use applications. Mr. Tidball has B.S. and M.S. degrees in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University and the University of Colorado, respectively.

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