Brad Wagner serves the CA Energy Consulting staff through deployment and management of a secure, reliable, and powerful information technology infrastructure. He is a Certified Information Security Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and an advocate for the practical use of advancing technology. Brad provides expertise and critical thinking to a wide variety of project teams.
Brad began his work at CA Energy Consulting developing custom software for our clients and in-house use. His code has been integrated into the billing systems of electric utilities, has processed billions of customer transactions to discover trends in product substitution, and has generated integrated data repositories from disjointed online data. Brad is fluent in numerous platforms, particularly .NET, MATLAB, and SQL.
Brad is a mid-pack runner and triathlete. If not participating, he is a run course volunteer captain for IRONMAN Wisconsin.
Tesla’s Powerwall May Herald an Era of Residential Demand Charges
May 14, 2015 - Utilities and residential solar advocates often find themselves at odds over the pricing of solar electricity, particularly over the policy of net metered volumentric distribution charges. The Powerwall has the potential to align the interests of these two groups, heralding an era of residential demand charges.
CA Energy Consulting Recommends Approaches to Mitigate Energy Rate Increases on Industry -
November 08, 2012 - On behalf of the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission, Dr. Mathew Morey, Dr. Laurence Kirsch, and other Christensen Associates staff have written a report that identifies ways of implementing programs and mechanisms that mitigate the impacts of electric rate increases on the market competitiveness of industrial and manufacturing businesses. The investigation into these options was spurred by the international competitive challenges faced by Kentucky's two aluminum smelters, including the challenges of relatively low-priced electricity in other countries.
March 26, 2012 - CA Energy Consulting, in collaboration with Energy Policy Group, has recently produced a report on behalf of the Eastern Interconnection States’ Planning Council and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. This report assembles information from a wide variety of sources, and compares wholesale market structures, transmission planning processes, and state laws and regulations in the Eastern Interconnection. The information and comparisons will help state regulators understand how market structures and state rules may affect incentives for and barriers to generation and transmission investments.
