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Nat Treadway

Managing Partner Distributed Energy Financial Group, LLC
	Member Since: 08/18/03 Author Rating: Bronze Article Count: 3 Email this author Phone: 713-729-6244

Background

Nat Treadway is a founding member of the Distributed Energy Financial Group, LLC (DEFG), (www.defgllc.com), a specialized financial services firm. DEFG provides consulting, advisory and capital placement services designed to link energy technology companies to capital markets.

In the early 1980’s, Mr. Treadway worked with city facilities managers to reduce energy usage and expense for municipal swimming pools, city offices and airport buildings and streetlights. As Ogden (Utah) energy coordinator, he helped the citizen energy commission implement the municipal energy conservation master plan. From 1985 to 1995 he provided expert testimony on the economics of demand management programs in Texas, electric utility resource planning, and power plant certification. He served as an advisor to the Texas Public Utility Commissioners (1995-1999) on ratemaking, and competitive and emerging issues (competitive resource acquisition; unbundling regulated utility functions and separation from competitive energy services; special contract pricing tariffs; interconnection of distributed generation; peak load management; consumer preferences--through Deliberative Polling®--for renewable energy and energy efficiency).

Since 1999, Mr. Treadway has consulted for distributed energy companies that seek fair access to the electric distribution wires and fair pricing for regulated services. He monitors retail and wholesale electric market developments, and in 2002 and 2003 he prepared the Retail Electricity Deregulation Index (“RED Index”) published by the Center for the Advancement of Energy Markets. He is examining utility ratemaking reform, demand response programs, resource adequacy and the economic drivers of activity in the distributed energy sector.

Mr. Treadway received a BSE (Civil Engineering) from Princeton University and an MS (Agricultural Economics) from Michigan State University. Contact information: (713) 729-6244 or ntreadway@defgllc.com.

Articles

6.6.07	The Dawn of Electricity Competition: Efficient Prices and Efficient Choices Topic: Business & Corporate Article Viewed 9339 Times; 37 comments At first glance it seems contradictory that an issue that discouraged energy efficiency programs in the 1980's would still be an issue that discourages economic efficiency. After all, energy efficiency programs were labeled "social engineering" by some; in contrast today's retail electricity choice is all about the "free market."

2.18.05	Resource Adequacy in U.S. Electricity Markets: Do the Benefits of Reliability Justify the Costs of Capacity? Topic: Business & Corporate Article Viewed 5823 Times; 4 comments Regulators of electricity markets have been concerned about resource adequacy - especially the need for generating capacity - since early in the history of regulation. These concerns have recently heightened, and large capacity reserve requirements are viewed as a means of ensuring resource adequacy and reliable electricity.

8.19.03	Matchmaking: Linking DE Firms and Investors Topic: Business & Corporate Article Viewed 6968 Times; Comment on this article Entrepreneurs need financial backing, and investors need information about which technologies have the potential to be tomorrow’s winners. These two communities require a credible information broker to bring them together. In established markets the capabilities of the players are well understood, but in the market for “distributed energy” (DE), the players, technologies, and services are in flux.

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