08. David Keir

David has thirteen years’ experience at the British Columbia Hydro & Power Authority (BC Hydro), with pricing and regulatory responsibilities. He brings specialist expertise in electricity tariffs, regulatory submissions and regulatory compliance. As an expert communicator, facilitator and educator, David also helps clients manage any aspect of the engagement interface between customers, utilities, regulators and government.

Career Summary

Whilst at BC Hydro, David managed regulatory submissions for commercial and industrial conservation rates, time-differentiated rates, standby and interruptible rates, retail access and transmission and distribution network interconnection charges. He has authored tariffs to determine historic customer energy use and generation baselines.  He has deep experience leading all types of customer and stakeholder engagements for tariff design projects and regulatory submissions.

David has negotiated multi-million dollar agreements with industrial customers for renewable power generation, plant expansions, load curtailment and energy efficiency projects. David is an accomplished report writer and technical editor with extensive experience writing industrial plant energy study reports, interconnection studies, stakeholder engagement reports, consultation guides, strategy and policy papers, business cases, letter agreements, executive briefing notes and presentations.

Expertise

  • Electricity rate and tariff design
  • Regulatory applications and submissions
  • Stakeholder engagement and facilitation
  • Presentations and public speaking
  • Industrial customer demand side management
  • Energy baseline determination
  • Report and technical writing
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