VP Regulatory Affairs
Rate case strategy and preparation
What You Do Today
Lead rate case strategy — determine revenue requirements, rate design approaches, and how to position capital investments and O&M spending to earn regulatory approval. Manage the timeline from filing through hearings to final order.
AI That Applies
AI models rate case scenarios — different ROE requests, depreciation schedules, and revenue allocation methods — to predict likely commission outcomes based on historical decisions.
Technologies
How It Works
The system ingests historical decisions as its primary data source. The processing layer applies the appropriate analytical models to the structured data, generating scored outputs that surface the most actionable insights. The results integrate into the practitioner's existing workflow — presenting recommendations, flags, or automated outputs alongside their normal working context.
What Changes
Scenario modeling for rate case strategy becomes faster and more comprehensive.
What Stays
Crafting regulatory strategy, reading the political landscape of the commission, and making the judgment calls about what to ask for and what concessions to offer.
What To Do Next
This section won't tell you what your numbers should be. It will show you how to find them yourself. Every instruction below produces a real, verifiable result in your organization. No benchmarks, no projections — just the steps to build your own evidence.
Establish Your Baseline
Know where you are before you move
Before adopting AI tools for rate case strategy and preparation, understand your current state.
Without a baseline, you can't measure whether AI actually improved anything. You'll adopt tools without knowing if they're working.
Define Your Measures
What to track and how to calculate it
Time per cycle
How to calculate
Measure how long rate case strategy and preparation takes end-to-end today, then after AI adoption.
Why it matters
The most visible improvement is speed. If AI doesn't save time, question whether it's adding value.
Quality of output
How to calculate
Track error rates, rework frequency, or stakeholder satisfaction scores before and after.
Why it matters
Speed without quality is just faster mistakes. Measure both.
Start These Conversations
Who to talk to and what to ask
your board chair or lead independent director
“What data do we already have that could improve how we handle rate case strategy and preparation?”
They shape expectations for how AI appears in governance
your CTO or CIO
“Who on our team has the deepest experience with rate case strategy and preparation, and what tools are they already using?”
They own the technology infrastructure that enables AI adoption
a peer executive at a company further along on AI adoption
“If we brought in AI tools for rate case strategy and preparation, what would we measure before and after to know it actually helped?”
Their lessons learned are worth more than any consultant's framework
Check Your Prerequisites
Confirm readiness before you invest
Check items as you confirm them.