The NorthBridge Group - Economic and Strategic Consulting

The NorthBridge Group's staff has published a number of reports and articles in their fields of expertise.

Technical reports and book chapters written for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) include:

  • Volatility and Variance: Understanding Uncertainty of Energy Commodity Spot and Forward Prices, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2006. Thomas Parkinson
    Item No. TR-1012473

  • Static Equilibrium: Forecasting Long-Term Energy Prices, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2005. Thomas Parkinson
    Item No. TR-1010688

  • Investment/Retirement Dynamics: The Rise and Fall of the Forward Curve, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2002. Thomas Parkinson
    Item No. TR-1001559

  • Technical Update
    Representing Load Uncertainty: Stochastic Process Models and Examples
    , EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2002. Thomas Parkinson

  • Using Option Valuation Theory to Analyze Generation Plant Investment and Retirement Decisions, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 1996. Thomas Parkinson and Frank Huntowski
    Item No. TR-107635

  • Forward Price Forecasting for Power Market Valuation, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 1998. Thomas Parkinson
    Item No. TR-111860

  • Uncertainty Representation: Estimating Process Parameters for Forward Price Forecasting, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 1999. Erin O'Neill and Thomas Parkinson
    Item No. TR-114201

  • The Market Price of Risk: Implications for Electricity Price Forecasting, Asset Valuation and Portfolio Risk Management, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2000. Thomas Parkinson
    Item No. TR-1000637

  • Long-Term Volatility of Net Revenues: Implications for Generator Profitability and Value, EPRI, Palo Alto, CA: 2003. Thomas Parkinson.
    Item No. TR-100220

To order any of these EPRI Publications, contact:

The EPRI Distribution Center
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P.O. Box 23205
Pleasant Hill, CA 94523
800-313-3774

Other publications:

  • Making Bilateral Competition Work, in Michael Einhorn and Riaz Siddiqi, eds., ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION PRICING AND TECHNOLOGY, Norwell, MA: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1996.

  • Market Price Risks of Merchant Generation,THE ELECTRICITY JOURNAL, Seattle, WA: Volume 17, Issue 4, pp. 33-48, May 2004. Thomas Parkinson.

  • Making Bilateral Competition Work, chapter 5 of Electricity Transmission Pricing and Technology, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Norwell, Massachusetts: 1996. Thomas Parkinson

  • Aligning Retail Rates with Market Prices, THE ELECTRICITY JOURNAL, Seattle, WA: Volume 10, Number 5, 1997. Bruce Phillips and Neil Fisher.

  • Whitepaper critique for Entergy:

    Truth In Advertising: A Realistic Analysis of the CSEF Report on Retail Competition in the Electric Industry, November 1996. David Lifland, Michael Schnitzer, and John Weber.
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