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Email: kurt.strunk@nera.com
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MBA, with Distinction, The European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD)
BA in economics, with Honors, Vassar College
Kurt G. Strunk is a seasoned energy and finance expert with nearly 30 years of experience working in energy disputes and as an advisor to energy companies, governments, and regulators. He has provided expert testimony at trial over 40 times and written reports on over 100 occasions in international and domestic arbitration, litigated court disputes, and adversarial regulatory proceedings. Mr. Strunk has addressed the quantum of damages in construction disputes, breach-of-contract cases, and alleged expropriations. He has also testified on asset and contract valuation, mergers and acquisitions, regulatory reform, cost of capital, pipeline access, and the design of competitive energy markets.
Mr. Strunk has deep expertise in the energy sector, including oil and gas production, midstream pipelines and electric transmission, power plants (solar, wind, hydro, nuclear, and conventional coal and gas), wholesale and retail markets for power and gas, upstream and downstream oil markets, and distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar. He has led due diligence and valuation exercises in support of investors in a variety of power, oil, and gas M&A transactions.
Mr. Strunk has extensive knowledge of the electric power industry, including the commercial and institutional frameworks for independent power development, concessions and other infrastructure contracts, fuel supply arrangements, and competitive solicitations. He has a keen understanding of the operational, strategic, and financial challenges electric and gas utilities face and has evaluated merger synergies. Mr. Strunk has advised on oil and gas mergers and acquisitions, valuation, restructuring, contracting, tariff-making, commodity procurement and risk management, and product pricing.
Mr. Strunk’s professional experience spans six continents and includes work in English, Spanish, and French. He is recommended as a leading energy expert by Who’s Who Legal (2019–2022), where he touted as “an invaluable expert” who “tackles each project with great attention and thoughtfulness” and “advises energy companies, governments, and regulators.” Mr. Strunk is complimented by clients for his “exceptional understanding of utility operations,” “strategic insight on key issues,” and consideration as an “excellent witness.”
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Will Allowed Returns for Regulated Utilities Keep Up with Inflation? | Published Article | Kurt Strunk and Ibrahim Ouf | ||
Damages: Geopolitics Increases Caseloads and Complicates Quantum | Published Article | Kurt G. Strunk, Jorge Baez, Robert Patton | ||
Could Mexico’s Capacity Market Design Lead to Gaming by Generators? | Published Article | Kurt G. Strunk and Willis Geffert | ||
NERA Electricity Insights | Q1 2018 | Report | Scott J. Bloomberg | ||
NERA Electricity Insights | Q4 2017 | Report | Scott J. Bloomberg | ||
NERA Electricity Insights | Q3 2017 | Report | Scott J. Bloomberg | ||
Beyond net metering: A model for pricing services provided by and to distributed gene... | Published Article | Kurt G. Strunk and Willis Geffert | ||
Interest Rates After the Election: What They Mean for Public Utility Returns | Published Article | Kurt Strunk, et al. | ||
The Decoupling of Treasury Yields and the Cost of Equity for Public Utilities | Brief | Kurt G. Strunk | ||
FERC's U-Turn on Transmission Rate Incentives | Working Paper | Kurt Strunk, et al. | ||
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2023 Northeast Chapter Annual Meeting | 14 June 2023 | |||
Marginal Cost Working Group—Now Virtual | 03 March 2021 | |||
The Summer 2019 Marginal Cost Working Group Workshop | 26 June 2019 | |||
CRRI’s 37th Annual Eastern Conference: Advanced Workshop on Regulation and Competitio... | 06 June 2018 | |||
Specialised Training on the Regulation of Gas Markets | 20 March 2018 | |||
Marginal Cost Working Group: A Forum for Energy Rate Design Innovation—Fall 2017 Meet... | 16 November 2017 | |||
The 14th Annual Advanced Conference on Electric Power in the Northeast | 25 September 2017 | |||
Electric Utility Ratemaking Conference | 14 March 2016 | |||
2015 Utility Regulation Conference: Rate Case, ROE and Reliability | 10 December 2015 | |||
The 12th Annual Comprehensive Conference on Energy in the Northeast: New Policies and... | 28 September 2015 | |||
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NERA Experts Recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Energy Experts 2022 | 23 June 2022 | Press Release | ||
NERA Economic Consulting Announces Senior-Level Promotions | 23 February 2021 | Press Release | ||
NERA Energy Experts Recognized in Who’s Who Legal: Energy 2019 | 02 September 2019 | Press Release | ||
NERA Economic Consulting Announces Officer-Level Promotions | 06 September 2012 | Press Release | ||
NERA Economic Consulting Announces Results from the Fourth CESUR Energy Auction in Sp... | 17 March 2008 | Press Release | ||
NERA Launches the Fourth CESUR Auction for Procurement of Electricity Baseload Contra... | 23 January 2008 | Press Release | ||
NERA Economic Consulting Announces Results from Third CESUR Energy Auction for Regula... | 19 December 2007 | Press Release | ||
The Line in the Sand | 19 October 2007 | Press Release | ||
New Book from NERA Economic Consulting Examines Implications of the Changing Boundary... | 06 September 2007 | Press Release | ||
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