BEFORE THE CORPORATION COMMISSION OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA
IN THE MATTER OF THE APPLICATION OF | ) |
OKLAHOMA GAS AND ELECTRIC COMPANY | ) |
FOR AN ORDER OF THE COMMISSION | ) CAUSE NO. PUD 202100164 |
AUTHORIZING APPLICANT TO MODIFY ITS | ) |
RATES, CHARGES, AND TARIFFS FOR RETAIL | ) |
ELECTRIC SERVICE IN OKLAHOMA | ) |
Direct Testimony
of
Jason D. De Stigter
on behalf of
Oklahoma Gas and Electric Company
December 30, 2021
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1 | 1.0 INTRODUCTION |
- Q1. Please state your name and business address.
- A1. My name is Jason De Stigter, and my business address is 9400 Ward Parkway, Kansas
4 | City, Missouri 64114. |
- Q2. By whom are you employed and in what capacity?
- A2. I am employed by 1898 & Co. as a Director, and lead the Utility Investment Planning team
7 | as part of our Utility Consulting Practice. 1898 & Co. was established as the consulting |
8 | and technology consulting division of Burns & McDonnell Engineering Company, Inc. |
9 | ("Burns & McDonnell") in 2019. 1898 & Co. is a nationwide network of over 250 |
10 | consulting professionals serving the Manufacturing & Industrial, Oil & Gas, Power |
11 | Generation, Transmission & Distribution, Transportation, and Water industries. |
12 | Burns & McDonnell has been in business since 1898, serving multiple industries, including |
13 | the electric power industry. Burns & McDonnell is a family of companies made up of more |
14 | than 8,300 engineers, architects, construction professionals, scientists, consultants, and |
15 | entrepreneurs with more than 40 offices across the country and throughout the world. |
- Q3. Briefly describe your educational background and certifications.
- A3. I have received a Bachelor of Science Degree in Engineering and a Bachelor's in Business
18 | Administration from Dordt College, now called Dordt University. I am a registered |
19 | Professional Engineer in the state of Kansas. |
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- Q4. Please briefly describe your professional experience and duties at 1898 & Co.
- A4. I am a professional engineer with 14 years of experience providing consulting services to
3 | electric utilities. I have extensive experience in asset management, capital planning and |
4 | optimization, risk and resiliency assessments and analysis, asset failure analysis, and |
5 | business case development for utility clients. I have been involved in numerous studies |
6 | modeling risk for utility industry clients. These studies have included risk and economic |
7 | analysis engagements for several multi-billion-dollar capital projects and large utility |
8 | systems. In my role as a project manager, I have worked on and overseen risk and resiliency |
9 | analysis consulting studies on a variety of electric power transmission and distribution |
10 | assets, including developing complex and innovative risk and resiliency analysis models. |
11 | My primary responsibilities are business development and project delivery within the |
12 | Utility Consulting Practice with a focus on developing risk and resiliency-based business |
13 | cases for large capital projects/programs. |
14 | Prior to joining 1898 & Co. and Burns & McDonnell, I served as a Principal Consultant at |
15 | Black & Veatch inside their Asset Management Practice performing similar studies to the |
16 | effort performed for Oklahoma Gas & Electric ("OG&E"). |
- Q5. Have you previously testified before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission?
- A5. I have not testified before the Oklahoma Corporation Commission; I ask that my
- credentials be accepted. I provided written, rebuttal, and oral testimony on behalf of
- Indianapolis Power & Light, now AES Indiana, before the Indiana Utility Regulatory
21 | Commission. Additionally, I provided written and rebuttal testimony on behalf of Tampa | |
22 | Electric Company before the Florida Public Service Commission. I have also supported | |
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1 | many other regulatory filings. I have also testified in front the Alaska Senate Resources |
2 | Committee. |
- Q6. Are you sponsoring any attachments in support of your testimony?
- A6. Yes, I am sponsoring the Grid Enhancement Plan Business Case for 2020 & 2021
5 | Investments Report prepared by 1898 & Co. ("1898 & Co. Report"), which is included as |
6 | Direct Exhibit JDD-1. |
7 Q7. Were your testimony and the attachment identified above prepared or assembled by
8 | you or under your direction or supervision? | |
9 | A7. | Yes. |
10 Q8. What was the extent of your involvement in the preparation of the Grid Enhancement
11 | Business Case? | ||
12 | A8. | I served as the 1898 & Co. project director on the OG&E Grid Enhancement Plan Business | |
13 | Case Assessment. I worked directly with the OG&E Team involved in the investment | ||
14 | planning. I was responsible for the overall project and was involved in the development of | ||
15 | the business case assessment, as well as being the main author of the report. | ||
16 | 2.0 | EXECUTIVE SUMMARY |
- Q9. What is the purpose of your direct testimony in this proceeding?
- A9. The purpose of my testimony is to summarize the results and methodology used by 1898
19 | & Co. to develop a business case for OG&E's 2020 and 2021 Grid Enhancement Plan with |
20 | the following objectives: |
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1 | 1. | Calculation of benefits from a customer centric perspective, mainly avoided future |
2 | costs and customer outages. | |
3 | 2. | Perform the business case evaluation using a bottoms-up approach to produce |
4 | business cases at the project, circuit, substation, and portfolio levels. | |
5 | 3. | Prepare the business case results using a revenue requirements methodology for |
6 | avoided reactive cost benefits excluding customer outage benefits. | |
7 | Through my testimony, I will describe the integrated and comprehensive nature of the Grid | |
8 | Enhancement Plan and how to understand the business case evaluation. I will describe the | |
9 | two main approaches utilized to estimate benefits for grid investments, the data that served | |
10 | as the foundation for the evaluation, and how benefits were mapped to investments. I will | |
11 | also describe results of the business case assessment performed for OG&E. Finally, I | |
12 | provide my conclusions and recommendations. |
- Q10. Please describe the assessment 1898 & Co. conducted for OG&E.
- A10. 1898 & Co. developed a business case for the 2020 and 2021 Grid Enhancement Plan
15 | investments developed by OG&E. 1898 & Co. utilized a risk and resiliency-based planning |
16 | approach to provide a business case for each Grid Enhancement investment. The evaluation |
17 | leverages 1898 & Co.'s AssetLens Analytics Engine, an asset investment planning tool to |
18 | evaluate the life-cycle benefits of replacing Transmission and Distribution (T&D) |
19 | infrastructure and deploying smart devices across the distribution system. Investment costs |
20 | for each of the investments were provided by OG&E. |
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