John Taylor is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Atrium Economics and a senior regulatory economist with more than twenty years of experience advising electric and natural gas utilities across the United States and Canada. Mr. Taylor has served as a lead expert in rate and regulatory proceedings across more than 20 jurisdictions in the United States and Canada. His testimony has been presented before the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, numerous state public utility commissions, provincial utility regulators, and trial courts.

He has testified on matters including revenue requirements, class cost of service, advanced rate design, revenue stabilization mechanisms, affiliate transactions, demand forecasts, return on equity, lead lag studies, audit testing, and infrastructure cost recovery. In addition to matters in which he was the lead witness, he has supported over one hundred engagements for other expert witnesses, contributing to the development and defense of analytical models, regulatory strategy, and evidentiary submissions.

Mr. Taylor’s experience spans vertically integrated electric utilities, gas distribution utilities, transmission providers, pipeline operators, municipally owned utilities, and multi-state holding companies. He has also served as market monitor for ISO New England’s capacity market and has supported wholesale power purchase agreement evaluations and generation feasibility and prudence analyses. He regularly advises executive leadership and boards on regulatory strategy, risk allocation, revenue stability, infrastructure investment, and long-term rate design considerations.

Mr. Taylor received a master’s degree in Economics from American University and holds a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Economics from the University of North Carolina at Asheville.

His consulting career includes Managing Partner with Atrium Economics, LLC; Principal Consultant – Advisory & Planning with Black & Veatch Management Consulting, LLC; Senior Project Manager & Principal of Concentric Energy Advisors, Inc.; and CEO of Nova Data Testing, Inc. Mr. Taylor started his career working on Capitol Hill working with NGOs that were seeking Public Private Partnerships with the Federal Government, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund to pursue various projects in developing countries.