Dr. Stephen George is a Principal Consultant and head of the energy practice at Freeman, Sullivan & Co. He has more than 29 years of experience consulting to electric and gas utilities and regulatory agencies, and 32 years of experience in the energy field. His areas of expertise include pricing strategy, demand response analysis, demand-side management program design and evaluation, electric industry restructuring, strategic and marketing planning, market research, and energy demand modeling.

In recent years, Dr. George has worked extensively on issues associated with electricity pricing and advanced metering, including the design and evaluation of California’s Statewide Pricing Pilot, the largest pricing experiment ever done in the US. He has provided analysis and/or testimony on the benefits of time-based pricing enabled by advanced metering for SDG&E, PSE, Xcel Energy, RG&E, NYSEG, CMP and the Department of Public Service in Vermont. He recently led an effort that produced California’s demand response impact estimation protocols and applied these protocols in developing ex ante impact estimates for PG&E’s demand response portfolio.

Dr. George has provided advice on retail market design and implementation issues to utilities in several states, including California, Illinois, Ohio, Arkansas and others. He has also consulted on market design issues in Singapore, Ontario Canada, New Zealand and Australia.

Dr. George has held previous positions as Vice President of CRA International and PHB Hagler Bailly, Inc. (formerly Putnam, Hayes & Bartlett, Inc.), Director of Putnam, Hayes and Bartlett, Inc., and Vice President of XENERGY Inc. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Davis and a B.S. in economics from Santa Clara University.