Mr. Bode has focused his skill set on the crossroads of demand side management and value-based reliability planning and assessment. 

He has been a key contributor to the design and analysis of pricing pilots, the development of load impact protocols, cost-benefit analyses of AMI investments, and the construction of tools to analyze the cost-effectiveness and design of demand side management programs.  Most recently, he was the primary architect of tools that facilitate the estimation of peak, usage, and billing impacts for time-based pricing, as well as the assessment of structural winners and losers.

In the area of value-based reliability planning and assessment, he previously developed a stochastic reliability assessment model for the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and analyzed the risk of stage one, two and three electric emergencies in Southern California.  He also worked for former Commissioner Kennedy of the California Public Utilities Commission, conducting policy analysis of capacity markets and its implications for time-varying pricing.   While at FSC, he has conducted value of service (outage costs) studies. His past work with value-based reliability planning and demand side management provides a unique set of expertise linking value of lost load and likelihood of lost load to the impact and valuation of demand response programs and pricing options.

He has a rich background in applied statistical analysis and research design, particular skill with large panel, time series, and survey datasets, and expertise in combining statistical analysis, optimization, and stochastic risk analysis to produce decision making insights. 

Mr. Bode completed his Master’s in Public Policy – with an emphasis on research and statistical methods – at the University of California, Berkeley and holds a B.A. in Business Economics from Willamette University.