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Nicolas Puga

BIO: Nicolas Puga

Nicolás Puga has over 25 years of experience as a senior energy advisor to electric utilities and generation and transmission companies in the analysis of electric power and natural gas markets, generation and transmission project development, utility resource supply planning, and renewable energy resource development. He has conducted due diligence, market assessments, and tariff studies for independent power producers, generation and transmission project developers, and lenders for both conventional and renewable energy projects. Mr. Puga has helped energy infrastructure project developers with interconnection feasibility studies, transmission access applications, and permitting processes in various U.S. and overseas markets. He has helped utilities and their industrial customers in the evaluation, implementation, and monitoring of energy efficiency and demand management projects, including demand response, thermal storage and combined heat, and power generation. Mr. Puga has provided expert testimony in several state transmission line certification proceedings in California, New York, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia, and has opined on U.S.-México cross-border energy trade and infrastructure in Federal, California, and Texas regulatory proceedings. He has co-authored several reports for the California Energy Commission on the development of renewable and other energy resources in Baja California-California border area from 2005 to 2009. Mr. Puga has an MSc in Energy Engineering from the University of Arizona and a BSc in Electrical Engineering from the Universidad de Guanajuato, Salamanca, México.