Energy Expert Witnesses
What is an energy expert witness?
Energy expert witness candidates will have experience in the business of producing and/or selling energy, which includes natural gas, coal, electricity, nuclear energy, or renewable energy such as solar and wind. Energy expert witnesses are often professional engineers (PE) or have other advanced degrees (PhD) in sustainable energy, advanced energy systems, or energy and resources. Energy expert witnesses may be members of professional organizations such as the Association of Energy Engineers, the Association of Energy Services Professionals, or the American Public Gas Association.
What types of cases require an energy expert witness?
Legal cases involving energy could include intellectual property, such as patent infringement cases or trade secret disputes. Depending on the circumstance, an energy subject matter expert might also provide litigation support for personal injury cases, workplace accidents, improper handling of hazardous materials and waste, or construction defects and mechanical failure.
Cases may involve the business of energy production, employee relations, or business valuation.
What litigation support work might an energy expert witness be expected to perform?
Litigation support by an energy expert witness could include research and authoring expert reports, providing expert opinions, deposition testimony, and expert testimony at a trial. In a high-profile case, or litigation involving a significant financial stake, a law firm may request an expert with prior expert witness experience. In addition, clients may seek an energy expert for pre-litigation consulting work.
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Energy Expert Witness - Representative Bios
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The below expert witness bios represent a small fraction of those Energy experts known by Cahn Litigation Services. These bios are provided to give lawyers a sense of the Energy landscape.
Expert Witness #247093
This expert firm is comprised of senior consultants in an international energy strategy consultancy with offices throughout the world. The firm specializes in sustainable energy and transport, with expertise in renewable energies, energy storage, energy efficiency and sustainable transport. They developed an extended competence center on hydrogen and fuel cells. They are a multinational team of engineers, economists and policy experts in sustainable energy. This firm advises automotive OEMs, Tier-1 and Tier-2 suppliers and leading players in the automotive market. Their decade-long experience in the automotive industry allows them to support clients in designing global innovation and technology development strategies and assessing new market opportunities linked to technology innovation. They also assist customers in defining, designing and implementing innovative go-to-market strategies. They offer high value support on scientific and technology developments, industrial and commercial partnering strategies, technology and market trends' analysis, diversification strategies and investment / acquisition opportunities to actors in the automotive sector. Additionally, they support technology companies, start-up companies and established equipment manufacturers active in the energy and mobility sectors through collaborative innovation projects, design of innovative business models, market assessments and go-to-market strategies in both developed and developing economies. Further, they support leading international oil & gas companies, energy utilities and network operators (TSOs, DSOs) both in developed and emerging countries in all aspects of the energy transition, from strategy to implementation: coordination of collaborative innovation projects, new technology assessment, development of innovative business models, identification and evaluation of new market opportunities, etc.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #248849
This expert is a Managing Director in an international accounting company's Business Restructuring and Turnaround Services practice. This expert has many years of experience in financial advisory services, including corporate restructuring, capital raising and merger and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. This expert provides financial, strategic and operational guidance to companies in the energy, chemical and renewables sectors.
This expert has significant transaction experience, having worked with clients on buy-side and sell-side transactions, as well as on auctions out of bankruptcy, privatizations, joint ventures, joint development agreements, and private equity and venture capital investments. This expert has also served as interim CEO of a leading solar panel producer, as well as interim CFO of a biodiesel company, where the company was successfully taken through Chapter 11. In addition, this expert has acted as a senior advisor to two exploration and production (E&P) companies.
This expert was President at a biotechnology company, where this expert successfully executed the company's first external capital raising and grew its staff. This expert also served as operating partner to a hedge fund for portfolio companies in the energy sector, leading several successful turnarounds, including an emergence from Chapter 11 and subsequent asset sale.
Relevent Experience:
- Bankruptcy Experience- Energy sector leadership as in-house corporate development professional- Private Equity/Hedge Fund Experience- Significant renewables experience- Investment banking- M&A and capital raising focus for the energy sector- Litigation support - economic analysis in support of expert testimony- Securities litigation, insider trading and antitrust cases
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #236398
This expert is President and founder of highly sought-after energy strategies consultancy. This expert has many years of experience and provides a multi-disciplinary approach to each consulting engagement. This expert received a PhD in Managerial Economics, an MBA in Marketing and BSEE & MSEE degrees in Power Systems. This expert is a Professional Engineer and Senior Life Member of IEEE. This expert is an author of numerous papers and journals, and a frequent speaker at professional conferences. This expert was also an Adjunct Professor. This expert has led in the development of risk management best practices as they relate to energy portfolio management, counterparty credit risk and long-term purchase power (PPA) agreement review. This expert supported the development and implementation of comprehensive Enterprise Risk Management programs, where he also serves as the Chief Risk Officer. This expert has also been actively involved in the development and continuous improvement of competitive wholesale electric markets.
Areas of Specialization:
Enterprise risk management, risk and uncertainty analysis, strategic planning, executive management consulting, regulatory economics, energy planning and forecasting, prudence review, management audits and assessment, wholesale market practices and procedures, energy trading and power contract management, counterparty credit risk assessment, merger and acquisition analysis, and emerging energy technology market valuation.
ISO Wholesale Market Experience:
- Performed a comprehensive risk management review with a focus on operations management, IT platform development, bench testing and reliability analysis. Also supported the development of the organization's enterprise risk management program.- Performed a comprehensive management audit with focus area on market integration, transmission planning and distributed generation based distribution planning.- Performed a comprehensive management audit with focus area on the company's interface with the MISO, transmission planning coordination with ITC which had recently acquired the transmission network and cost impacts associated with windfarm interconnection to the MISO markets.- Performed a comprehensive assessment of an energy's application to transfer its wholesale market participation from SPP to MISO. The focus was on transmission constraints, congestion management and the impact of the proposed sale of its transmission network to ITC.- Supported senior management perform a strategic assessment of the benefits associated with its transformation from a wholly owned utility entity to a publicly traded corporation based on shareholder value and FERC based returns approved for the MISO.- Retained to develop and lead two two-day conferences on energy and capacity procurement, contracts and risk management. The focus of the first conference was on state agency requirements including such entities as state hospitals, penal institutions and university dormitories. The second conference was designed for a State university system.- Developed an energy procurement strategy for both natural gas and electricity.This expert has testified over 50 times before public service commissions; two arbitration panels, and a State Legislature Energy Committee.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #261279
This expert has worked in the energy industry for many years completing assignments encompassing the entire energy value chain. This expert was responsible for reservoir engineering evaluations associated with exploration and development projects, assessment of the economic value of acquisition and divestiture activities, analysis of natural gas shut in strategies, pipeline/plant engineering design, pipeline/plant construction and operations management of existing production properties. This expert was in domestic crude oil trading and marketing. In the crude trading group, this expert evaluated transportation logistics, analyzed the operations of refineries, assessed the commercial aspects of potential mergers and asset trades, and formulated options and futures strategies.
This expert has been involved in a wide variety of assignments and is frequently retained to advise clients on both technical and commercial issues related to mergers, asset transactions, project development and start up, bankruptcy/workout, and dispute resolution. This expert has experience in the transportation, processing, refining, marketing, and electrical generation sectors.
Throughout the course of this expert's consulting career, this expert has advised clients on both technical and commercial issues related to mergers, asset transactions, project development, business start-ups, bankruptcy/workout, and dispute resolution.
This expert has experience in the transportation, processing, refining, marketing, and electrical generation sectors and brings many years of direct experience in the energy industry including project evaluation, development, and management; operations management; and contract evaluation/negotiation.
This expert is a frequent speaker at national and international energy industry conferences and is the author of 25 papers and presentations covering the industry's technical, economic, and commercial matters.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #235964
This expert is an Energy Economist with strong public utility experience and a solid understanding of Utility rate design, Pipeline rate design and how they work together. This expert regularly provides advice on cost allocation, pricing, cost of capital and regulatory accounting policy reform, and market design issues to utilities, private energy firms, independent system operators and energy regulatory commissions both domestic and international. This expert has provided expert testimony before state public utility commissions on electricity and natural gas rate design, marginal cost analysis, electricity rate structures, reforms to tariffs for customers with distributed generation and net metering and efficient power contract design.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #260208
This expert is an expert in applied finance and energy matters with many years of experience in complex commercial litigation, arbitration and regulatory proceedings. This expert has been retained as an expert to testify in international and domestic arbitration, and before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, US Tax Court, US Federal Court, and US Bankruptcy Court, the National Energy Board in Canada, as well as state and provincial public utilities boards in the US and Canada. In the oil and gas sectors, this expert has consulted on rate matters, mergers and acquisitions, restructurings, contract disputes, valuation and product pricing. This expert has served as an expert in regulatory hearings and has also carried out studies of the reasonableness of gas supply agreements in various jurisdictions and quantified damages in connection with the early termination of such agreements
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #260722
This expert has many years of extensive experience in the power generation field. This expert's air pollution control system experience includes wet and dry FGD systems, low-NOx burners/combustion controls, SCRs, SNCRs, ESPs, and baghouses for boilers and SCRs for gas turbines. This expert has provided testimony to various legislative committee on the impact of air pollution control legislation. This expert has in-depth knowledge of combustion processes and the control of dioxins through combustion technologies and mercury control in power plants and waste-to-energy facilities. This expert is also experienced in project development, financing, conceptual engineering, evaluation of business ventures including feasibility and risk analysis, and contract negotiations. This expert has assisted in compliance strategies for current and emerging air pollution rules and regulations, technology transfer and acquisition of technologies. This expert is a recipient of numerous certifications and awards based on work in the waste-to-energy and fossil-fuel industries and has published over 100 technical papers on environmental issues.
This expert started working with activated carbon for mercury (Hg) control many years ago with mercury control on waste-to-energy plants. This expert was involved in research work that used both brominated and un-brominated activated carbon for coal-fired applications, and was importing activated carbons. This expert went to work leading a mercury control business unit. Part of this expert's responsibility was importing, marketing, and technical support for activated carbon products. This expert was involved in several DOE test programs evaluating various activated carbons. This expert is very familiar with many competitor's products and methods of injecting activated carbons.
This expert leads a highly respected energy consultancy, specializing in emission compliance strategies, business development as related to EPA regulations, and licensing of new technologies. This expert also provides strategic planning assistance with compliance strategies for current and emerging air pollution rules and regulations. This includes, among others, regulatory applicability analysis, control technology evaluations, and integrated compliance strategies and compliance options for viable long-term viability.
This expert has prior litigation experience.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #244675
This mechanical engineer and pipeline operations expert is a seasoned Professional Engineer (PE) with over 55 years of domestic and international experience across energy and related industries. This expert is registered as a Professional Engineer in over 10 states, including states with significant energy and industrial activity, with expertise in oil and gas, pipeline systems, safety protocols, and mechanical design.
This expert is a certified safety expert with specialized training in oil and gas facilities, refining, and construction operations. As an instructor, this expert has taught energy-related courses, including drilling operations and oil and gas safety, through an energy training provider and a well-regarded state university. This expert has authored technical manuals, industry papers, and computer programs and holds over 10 U.S. patents involving downhole equipment innovations.
As an expert witness with over 35 years of litigation experience, this expert has provided legal testimony in matters related to oil and gas well drilling, blowout prevention, pipeline design, power generation, and mechanical systems. This expert also has significant experience in product liability, personal injury analysis, and accident reconstruction.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #277491
This oil & gas industry expert has held senior board leadership roles at an energy consultancy firm and has over 30 years of industry experience. As a consultant, this expert has worked on a broad range of assignments in the downstream sector around the world. This expert has provided expert testimony in international and domestic arbitration, U.S. Federal court, U.S. state court, and the English High Court of Justice. This expert has also provided extensive expert testimony in regulatory proceedings before energy regulators in Canada, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and U.S. state regulatory agencies. Prior to consulting, this expert worked for a petroleum company for over 10 years in a variety of refinery and headquarters positions.
This expert has provided expert testimony supporting several applications for multibillion-dollar crude oil pipeline projects in the U.S. and Canada, as well as numerous smaller crude oil pipeline projects. The testimony primarily concerned the economic and commercial merits of the pipeline projects.
This expert holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and an M.B.A. and is a licensed Professional Engineer in Texas. This expert has also provided expert testimony regarding various commercial and market issues relating to pipeline rates and tolls for crude oil and refined product pipelines before Canadian energy regulators and the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Additionally, this expert has executed numerous engagements involving market, commercial, and competitive dynamics of various pipeline transportation options.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #284138
This oil & gas trading expert has worked in the energy industry for over 30 years and currently manages an energy research firm that has examined a major energy company's role in the California energy crisis. This expert provides support in energy litigation, negotiation, and research to governments, industries, utilities, and Indigenous peoples across regions including California and Quebec.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #289614
This mid-stream asset evaluation and development expert has held senior leadership roles with energy consulting and education firms, leads an executive team, and offers over 40 years of experience in upstream and midstream processes, energy marketing, and energy research projects. This expert is widely regarded as an authority in crude oil, natural gas, NGL, and LNG, with expertise spanning major U.S. producing basins. This expert has managed thousands of natural gas transactions involving billions of cubic feet across U.S. producing basins and Mexico.
This expert also leads a nationally recognized energy education firm offering courses in Natural Gas Basics, Gas Midstream and NGL Basics, and Gas Processing Agreements that have been shared with over 10,000 industry professionals. Before launching these firms, this expert held positions with major energy companies. This expert is an in-demand speaker and lecturer with past engagements for prominent energy, royalty, and oil and gas industry associations. This expert is a respected thought leader, a popular contributor on professional social media, and a frequent podcast guest on energy platforms. This expert has extensive prior litigation experience, including deposition and testimony.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #292415
This battery expert has over 25 years of experience in the xEV industry and has authored an industry report on battery packs for modern xEVs.
This expert has a demonstrated history of working in the automotive, battery, powertrain, and energy storage industries, with particular skill in battery systems, energy storage, product quality, and test and validation plans.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #293081
This macroeconomic modeling and energy infrastructure expert is a senior economic consulting professional and energy economist with substantial experience providing expert evidence in energy-related commercial and regulatory disputes, as well as international arbitrations. This expert has over 25 years of experience addressing economic issues involving oil and gas, natural gas liquids, pipelines, and the broader energy sector.
This expert routinely conducts economic analyses of energy and transportation markets to assess historical and forecasted market conditions, including supply, demand, and prices, and to evaluate competition and valuation issues for business, regulatory, and commercial contexts involving expert testimony. This expert has testified frequently regarding natural gas and natural gas liquid product and pipeline markets, as well as the economics of transportation product flows, throughput, and transportation alternatives.
In addition to expert consulting assignments, this expert is an adjunct professor at a prestigious university, teaching a graduate-level course in energy economics and policy that covers the economics of energy products, transportation, and regulatory economics. This expert has been recognized in recent years as a leading energy expert and arbitration expert by a prominent legal ranking publication.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #296555
This oil and gas industry and environmental science expert team includes experts with M.S., Ph.D., and P.E. credentials and experience in pipeline safety, mechanical integrity, environmental consulting, and air permitting in the energy sector.
This expert is a principal engineer at a pipeline safety and mechanical integrity consultancy and has over 15 years of specialized experience in the oil and gas energy industry, with extensive experience in transportation, integrity management, safety, processing and refining, and Process Safety Management. This expert has practical, hands-on expertise in failure analysis of varied systems, integrating process and operational data, repair records, and relevant technical documentation. This expert has directly operated, designed, and maintained oil and gas assets, allowing analyses to be informed by real-world application rather than solely theoretical knowledge.
This expert has in-depth knowledge of U.S. and international safety regulations and industry standards, including PHMSA, OSHA, ASME, and API requirements. This expert has played a significant role in engineering, program, and project management activities aimed at ensuring safe operations, particularly in response to regulatory actions. This expert consistently uses the Department of Energy's Root Cause Analysis methodology, a rigorous framework used in engineering assessments and legal proceedings. This expert has experience testifying and drafting expert opinion and rebuttal reports.
This environmental science expert holds a Ph.D. and P.E. credential and serves in a director-level role at an environmental consulting firm specializing in the energy sector. With over 25 years of environmental consulting and air permitting experience focused on the energy industry, this expert has managed the preparation of hundreds of New Source Review and Title V air permits for upstream, midstream, and downstream facilities in the United States and Mexico.
This environmental science expert holds an M.S. and serves in a leadership role at an environmental consulting firm specializing in the energy sector. With over 20 years of environmental consulting and air permitting experience focused on the energy industry, this expert helps oil and gas companies develop and operate assets in accordance with environmental regulations. This expert has managed the preparation of hundreds of New Source Review and Title V air permits for upstream, midstream, and downstream facilities across the United States.
The team has experience as expert witnesses and litigation consultants.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #303496
This California renewable energy and construction expert is a licensed California General (B), Electrical (C10), and HVAC (C20) Contractor with over 35 years of construction and energy industry experience, specializing in solar energy systems, EV charging infrastructure, and public-sector energy projects. This expert offers a combination of hands-on field experience, executive-level construction leadership, renewable energy expertise, and forensic litigation support. The background includes a deep understanding of MEP systems, solar and energy infrastructure, contract analysis, and public works compliance, combined with extensive expert witness experience, supporting evaluation of energy contracts under California GC ?4217 and related public works solar and infrastructure projects.
Solar and renewable energy experience includes design-build solar PV systems for commercial installations, utility-scale central inverter technical field service and support, Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) evaluation and standard-of-care analysis, solar roofing interface and waterproofing defect analysis, performance, commissioning, and system failure investigations, cost-to-repair estimating, and lifecycle evaluation.
This expert's background includes evaluation of energy service contracts under California Government Code ?4217, including review and analysis of energy service agreements for public agencies, evaluation of guaranteed energy savings and performance obligations, lifecycle cost analysis and feasibility studies, public works compliance and procurement review, solar farm and large-scale energy installation oversight, and contract structure, change order, and claims analysis.
This expert is an experienced expert witness and litigation consultant.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #303677
This energy economics expert has more than 40 years of industry and consulting experience focused on the energy industry, primarily natural gas procurement, sales, transportation, and trading.
This expert provides expert testimony and dispute advisory services in legal and commercial disputes. The testimony primarily addresses contractual disputes and industry customs and practices, including Force Majeure, early termination, joint venture dissolution, price re-openers, appropriate documentation of agreements, infrastructure and rate disputes, trade secrets, and other commercial issues.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #303682
This energy economics expert specializes in energy markets, quantum valuation, and financial analysis, with over 15 years of extensive experience in the energy sector.
This expert has developed deep expertise across various domains, including power and renewables, LNG and natural gas markets, and gas midstream operations.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #303699
This energy economics expert founded and leads a boutique advisory firm focused on energy commodity markets.
Before founding the firm, this expert held roles in energy trading, risk management, quantitative analysis, derivative structuring, and commodity marketing at leading energy trading companies and institutional brokerage firms.
Insights from this expert have been featured in major financial news outlets and leading industry publications. This expert is also a frequent speaker at industry conferences and guest lecturer at leading universities worldwide.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #304369
This international shipping expert is an oil and gas trading manager with over 30 years of experience in the industry. This expert has extensive knowledge of the specialized practices, procedures, and customary activities unique to the physical oil, gas, and energy markets.
This expert has experience involving Iranian oil and energy markets, including trading with national oil companies and other Iranian energy-sector entities concerned with bitumen and petrochemicals. Having personally chartered many ships while active as an oil trader, this expert has an in-depth understanding of the factors affecting freight rates and how they are negotiated.
Start Energy Expert SearchExpert Witness #304449
This international shipping expert is a highly seasoned oil trade and operations analyst with over 20 years' experience in the energy industry, having occupied various roles involving strategic project origination and implementation in upstream and downstream oil and gas sectors, physical oil trade, offshore marine logistics, alternative energy, financing, and risk management.
This expert is well versed in international shipping, freight rates, and tanker operations.
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