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Mr. Clements has over 34 years of experience providing generation
expansion planning, production cost modeling, transmission planning,
control area operations and design and consulting services to electric
utilities, the steel industry and fuel suppliers in the US and
Internationally. Mr. Clements was on the Board of Directors of the
Western Regional Transmission Association and has been involved in
the formation attempts of several ISOs/RTOs. He has testified as an
expert witness on transmission, prudency, scheduling and ancillary
service issues in federal cases and in Colorado and Kentucky. He has
studied transfer path loading and loopflow magnitudes and recommended
the construction of new facilities that increased the transfer limit and
wrote CPCNs the state PUC approved. He has projected power supply
rates for clients resulting from competing supplier’s future construction
plans. He has been involved in several mergers and acquisitions and the
administration of the resulting executory contracts.
R E P R E S E N T A T I V E EXP E R IE N C E
Senior Consultant, ERG Consulting. Participated in the formation of the
SeTrans RTO. He testified as an expert witness for a large arc furnace
steel mill when the utility attempted to classify the mill as a non-conforming
load. He testified as an expert witness before the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission against Enron and its affiliate in the
Death Star scheduling practice. He testified as an expert witness in
Federal Claims Court for a steel mill charge excessive load regulation
fees for transmission service. He studied the cost advantages for a utility
of terminating existing grandfathered contracts and using Network
Integration Transmission Service in order to purchase IPP power at a
lower cost as a Network Resource. Mr. Clements provided two filed
comments to FERC in its proposed Standard Market Design (SMD).
Manager, System Planning, Public Service Co. of Colorado.
Participated in the formation of the Midwest ISO. Raised the TOT 3
transfer path limit into Colorado by approximately 50 MW by upgrading
a line and justified the increase with WECC technical studies. He
modeled the costs and effectiveness of different emission control
technologies for an older power plant. He produced testimony on the
design of the Colorado IRP rules that resulted in a rule revision. He
managed the creation of the 20 year system peak demand forecast. As a
Senior Planning Engineer he worked on the acquisition of Colorado
Ute and divided the transmission system of Colorado Ute between PSCo
and Tri-State G&T and then designed the control area boundary changes
to move all the acquired load and generation into the PSCo control area.
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