Our sponsors provide generous monetary donations and donations-in-kind toward making our Annual Conference and Training the successful events that they are. These contributions go towards the many breakfasts, lunches and special events that conference and training attendees enjoy throughout the week.
Alliance Consulting Group is a Texas limited partnership formed in 2004 and has conducted over 400 depreciation studies and Fixed Asset consulting for regulated and non-regulated clients across nearly all utility segments. We have filed testimony in most states as well as FERC, with an outstanding track record of acceptance for our recommendations. Alliance Consulting Group is led by Managing Partner Dane Watson who is actively involved in the day-to-day operations. In addition to Mr. Watson, Alliance has four full-time Senior Consultants as well as support staff. Alliance Consulting Group provides quality consulting and expert services to the utility industry. Our professionals have over
185 years of combined experience around the utility industry and have been employed in the industry as utility engineers, accountants, managers and consultants.
Concentric Advisors, ULC is a new Canadian subsidiary of Concentric Energy Advisors, located in Calgary, Alberta. Concentric Advisors possesses expertise in numerous aspects of the power, natural gas, oil pipeline, telecom, water, and railway industries with a focus on depreciation and valuation.
Founded in 1915, Gannett Fleming Valuation and Rate Consultants, LLC, a subsidiary of GFT Infrastructure Inc. provides planning, design, technology, and construction management services for a diverse range of markets and disciplines. GFT has helped to shape infrastructure and improve communities through transportation, environmental, water, energy, and facility-related projects in more than 65 countries. The firm embraces sustainability and innovation for all activities, finding the best solutions and the most efficient processes while being responsible stewards of the environment.
GFT provides consulting services to investor-owned and publicly-owned utilities and has successfully represented clients in public pricing policy and related matters before regulators and in courts of law. Its team of engineers, accountants and analysts has a broad experience base to meet your needs and is skilled in using computer-modeling techniques to customize studies and analysis. The team combines guiding traditional principles with innovative approaches to provide an understandable product that can stand the test of scrutiny.
PowerPlan is a leading provider of enterprise software designed to help energy, oil and gas, rail, telecom, and other asset-intensive companies manage complex tax, regulatory, and financial requirements. Our solutions support income tax, property tax, regulatory reporting, and asset-based accounting, enabling greater accuracy, transparency, and compliance. PowerPlan helps organizations streamline processes, reduce risk, and confidently adapt to evolving tax rules and regulatory standards. For more information visit www.powerplan.com.
Regulated Capital Consultants was formed in 2010 with the purpose of providing rate regulated and asset-intensive industries with a trusted advisor, offering accounting, tax, regulatory, and IT departments with systems advocacy services and internal resource support. RCC’s consultants combine their knowledge of accounting, tax, and regulatory processes with deep technical expertise to provide customers with results that are accurate and actionable. With unparalleled experience in the industry, RCC’s expert consultants add immediate value to every project.
Depreciation Workbench (“Workbench”) is the flagship depreciation solution of Analyst+Co, a software provider serving the power and utilities industry. Workbench streamlines actuarial analysis, depreciation calculations, and regulatory reporting. By offering an auditable, purpose-built system for the entire depreciation study, Workbench replaces sprawling spreadsheets and one-off scripts so analysts spend less time wrangling data and more time applying their professional judgment.
Major corporations, government agencies and utilities throughout North America have come to regard Foster Associates as the standard bearer of economic analysis in regulated industries. Whatever their need, our clients receive expert testimony and counsel reliably grounded in thorough research, academic rigor, industry experience and knowledge–based insights into complex regulatory, legislative and judicial practices. Over the past 50–plus years, the firm’s professionals have earned a reputation for outstanding service delivery and sound solutions. Foster Associates’ experts testify before state and federal agencies on behalf of our clients.
Our reputation for excellence is only matched by our academic credentials mostly earned in advanced degrees at Iowa State University, experience, and professionalism in depreciation and valuation. Our internally developed and sophisticated computer programs set us apart by reflecting independent reporting, execution and decades of immersion in complex depreciation and valuation theory.
