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J. Kennedy and Associates, Inc. ("Kennedy and Associates") is an economic consulting firm specializing in the electric, natural gas, and water utility industries. We provide services in utility rates, resource planning, contract negotiations, and litigation services to industrial and large commercial utility consumers, regulatory commissions, and commission staffs, attorneys general, consumers counsel and other utility consumers or their representatives. The firm's principals are Mr. Stephen J. Baron, Mr. Lane Kollen, and Mr. Philip Hayet. In addition, the firm has a staff of professional consultants able to offer services in a broad range of disciplines.

Kennedy and Associates provides consulting services to consumers, regulators, and other government agencies, utilizing skills and techniques that parallel those currently in use by progressive electric, gas, and water utilities. The firm employs advanced costing, rate design, and planning techniques, using models and computer programs developed by the firm's principals and other consultants as well as proprietary computer simulation models developed by third parties and used by progressive utilities, such as PROMOD, Strategist, and GRID.

Kennedy and Associates is now in its fourth decade of providing specialized analytical and litigation services. Kennedy and Associates has been a key player in many of the most significant rate proceedings and investigations litigated in recent years.