Van Horn Consulting (VHC) focuses on energy and environmental markets, planning, analysis and regulation. Founded in 1987, VHC helps clients evaluate competitive and regulatory issues, review proposed projects and business strategies, and value assets. We serve as Independent Evaluators of offers, negotiations and contracts for conventional and renewable electric power resources, combined heat and power, demand response and natural gas supplies, applying decades of experience in electricity, fuels and emissions markets, including cap-and-trade markets for SO2 and greenhouse gases (GHG).
Our clients have included electric and gas utilities, independent power project developers and operators, the Electric Power Research Institute, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, cities and other market participants. We conduct rigorous analyses, prepare expert testimony, provide litigation support, and assess management processes. We have developed and critiqued resource planning, technology assessment, economic and financial models and applied them to value power projects and pipelines, analyze integrated resource plans, market rules and regulations, and to make procurement and competitive decisions.
Our senior professionals have directed national energy and environmental policy and R&D studies, including comprehensive evaluations of New Source Performance Standards, the SO2 cap-and-trade market and potential GHG regulations. VHC helped implement the U.S. cap-and-trade market and set the price for the first SO2 allowance trade in 1992. Today, we assist clients making complex decisions affected by multiple requirements and uncertainties.