  QSI
PROVIDES TRAINING SERVICES
TO COLORADO
PUC
"Very informative and comprehensive training. I very much appreciated and enjoyed the historical underpinnings that QSI brought forth."
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Cory Skluzak, Rate Analyst
Colorado
Office of Consumer Counsel
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QSI Consulting recently
provided training services to the Colorado
Public Utilities Commission, featuring four
courses covering utility regulation principles,
witness training, cost study methods and telecommunications
industry overview. QSI’s training courses
provide CLE credit:
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| WITNESS TRAINING COURSE ENTITLED “WRITING AND DEFENDING BULLET PROOF TESTIMONY IN ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS” |
This two day course
provides participants with detailed,
interactive instruction on critical topics
for developing a credible, successful witness,
such as the keys to writing persuasive pre-filed
testimony, responsibilities of an expert witness
and his or her litigation team, basic guidelines
for responding to hostile cross-examination,
cross examination styles and advanced
witness strategies. Features of this course
is two (2) video-taped mock cross sessions
that are reviewed and discussed during the
course.
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| TELECOMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY OVERVIEW COURSE ENTITLED “A History of Technology, Institutions, Federal and State Law, and Regulatory Principles” |
This one day course provides participants with a complete overview of the telecommunications industry as a whole, from the technologies to the policy. To understand where the telecommunications industry is going, one must first understand where it has been, and QSI’s training course arms participants with that knowledge.
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| COST STUDY METHODS COURSE ENTITLED “Cost Methodologies for Regulated Network Industries: Studying Basic Cost Methods and Understanding Their Relevance” |
This one day course provides participants with critical information on the costs underlying the regulated network industries by some of the nation’s foremost subject matter experts. This course explains different types of costs, the importance of each type, how cost studies are constructed, components of cost studies, and methods for understanding, reviewing and auditing cost studies. The QSI team that teaches this course has represented myriad clients in many regulatory proceedings where costs and rates are established for regulated utilities.
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| PRINCIPLES OF UTILITY REGULATION ENTITLED “Principles of Public Utility Regulation: An Introductory Course of Principles Then, Now, and in the Future” |
This one day course explains why we regulate public utilities, how we regulate, and how regulation is applied to various public utilities (water, gas, electric, and telecommunications). This course defines such critical concepts as “public interest,” “monopoly,” “barriers to entry,” and “market failure.”
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Michael Starkey discussing cost study methods. |
Peter Gose providing the latest information on Universal Service. |
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