Biography

David Magnus Boonin

Diverse Background

•President of New Energy Venture – Mid-Atlantic, positioning the parent to be sold for $240M

•Commissioner and Executive Director for the regulatory board of the nation’s largest municipal gas company, replacing politics with objectivity

•Principal for the National Regulatory Research Institute, the thought leader for the nation’s regulatory commissions

•Chief Economist of the Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission

•Director of Utility and Regulatory Affairs and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for the City of Philadelphia

•Senior Vice President for Corporate Development of a B2B built around utility supply chains

  1. •Supervisor of Economic and Energy Forecasting for an electric utility

  2. •Economist for A&E firm building power plants

Education

  1. • M.A. in Economics, Brown University

  2. • B.S. Economics, Wharton School

Related Activities

  1. •Commissioner, Philadelphia Planning Commission

  2. •Member, Private Sector Advisory Panel, Infrastructure Financing, U.S.      Senate Budget Committee

  3. •Chair, Steering Committee, U.S.-Russia Exchange Center

  4. •Commissioner Emeritus, National Association of Utility Regulatory Commissioners

•Contributing Editor to Electric Potential, a national periodical for the electric industry and its regulators

Leadership

Mr. Boonin has provider leadership in many areas of public utility policy, planning, strategy and analysis including:

  1. •Resource planning and assessment

  2. •Risk mitigating cost recovery mechanisms

  3. •Accurate metrics for policy evaluation

  4. •Efficiency incentives for utilities and consumers

  5. •Job creation and responsible economic growth

  6. •Decoupling with energy efficiency incentives

  7. •Interrelationship between wholesale rules and retail regulation

  8. •Financing strategies to reduce the cost of service

  9. •Rate case strategy and assessment

  10. •Renewables, negawatts, DSR and low-carbon generation

  11. •Smart grid applications

  12. •Cost-effective low-income assistance programs

  13. •Stranded costs

  14. •Market-based default services

  15. •Volatility Protection Fund as a customer financed hedge

  16. •Feed-in tariffs

  17. •Energy forecasting

  18. •Taxicab and limousine regulation

Publications, Presentations

and Testimony

Mr. Boonin is frequently published, has presented numerous papers to national forums both domestically and internationally and has provided expert testimony in several jurisdictions (click here for a partial list).

He is an experienced team builder and interdisciplinary project manager, with a history of producing successful results on time and on budget. Boonin builds common understandings and collaborative solutions.


Clients and associates describe Boonin as “the most objective person” they know, “a creative problem solver,” “a team and consensus builder” and as an analyst who “moves seamlessly between the big picture and the details.” 

David Magnus Boonin is a nationally recognized regulatory         public utility economist, thought leader and change agent with over three decades experience in public utility regulation, policy and strategy. Boonin’s diverse background (see below) allows him to objectively and efficiently assess situations from multiple perspectives.