Adrian Kimbrough

SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT

Adrian Kimbrough, Senior Vice President at Gabel Associates, brings more than 16 years of deep analytical expertise. This includes 5 years in the military intelligence sector in the U.S. Marines.

Mr. Kimbrough has a rich technical skillset, including energy financial modeling and valuations, economic damages quantification, ratemaking, and market strategy.

Mr. Kimbrough has expert knowledge of wholesale power markets, electric utility ratemaking, and midstream pipeline regulatory economics. During his tenure with FERC, Mr. Kimbrough led Staff’s cost-of-service accounting and pricing for reactive power compensation, new capital projects, market entry and expansion, and investigations related to the reasonableness of rates in multiple negotiated proceedings. He represented the Commission as an expert witness in hearings on regulatory economics, power market dynamics, tariff terms and conditions, and operations of the midstream pipeline and electric utility industries.

Mr. Kimbrough has supported the development of market power studies, energy imbalance market structures, refinery economic optimization models, and transmission system congestion analyses including locational marginal pricing (LMP). He has experience with complex economic models, market trends, critical policy concerns, and contractual agreements to develop defensible technical and policy positions used during multiple litigated and negotiated proceedings at FERC.

Mr. Kimbrough also performed rigorous financial and economic assessments related to the renewable energy industry, including the evaluation of solar PV and energy storage technology innovations, mergers and acquisitions (M&A) trends, emergent business models, changing regulatory policies, project finance structures, and risk management instruments.

In addition, Mr. Kimbrough served in the United State Marine Corp as a Cryptologic Linguist for five years, which included one combat tour in Iraq. This included operations intelligence activities, in which he analyzed classified real-time intelligence on global security threats. He also prepared time-sensitive tactical reports and intelligence assessments used to identify and mitigate imminent threats, evaluate connections within and across networks, and project future operations. During this time, he also received clearance to access Top Secret information.