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NES Associates and Affiliates
Calvin W. Bell
Mr. Bell has over 30 years of experience in the electric utility industry with an indepth focus on finance, power supply, and the northeast US and Canadaian power and natural gas marketplace. Mr. Bell began his industry career with Bangor Hydro-Electric Company (BHE) as a power supply planning analyst and progressed to its Director of Energy Risk Management. He was a member of the Company’s Strategic Management Team, comprised of approximately 15 of the company’s senior managers and executives. During his tenure at BHE, he was heavily involved in planning and managing a diverse $100 million annual electricity power supply portfolio. Mr. Bell negotiated power supply contracts valued at several hundred million dollars for BHE’s customers. Mr. Bell was also extensively involved in various projects of significant financial importance to the Company, including refinancing the company’s debt, being a principle member of the team that successfully renegotiated four power purchase contracts which reduced Bangor Hydro’s costs by over $100 million, preparing financial analyses of the future financial viability of Maine Yankee, and preparing financial analyses to determine the economic feasibility of various company assets (T&D, Generation, Power Supply, Natural Gas, Telecom). Mr. Bell also developed and managed the Company’s fuel risk management program, which utilized over-the-counter derivatives and creative contract terms to mitigate the impacts fuel price volatility and generating unit performance risks. Mr. Bell provided regulatory support and testified at the MPUC on behalf of the Company during rate cases and the aforementioned projects. In 2002 Mr. Bell transitioned to BHE’s unregulated affiliate, Emera Energy Services Inc. (EES) as its Director of Power Marketing/Origination. Mr. Bell was a founding member of EES and responsible for the establishment/expansion of EES’ power and natural gas business in the Northeast United States and Canada, which included training the traders on the Northeast marketplace, negotiating energy management and tolling agreements, purchase and sale of gas/power supply, moving energy between regions, as well as identifying and facilitating new business opportunities in the Northeast United States and Canada. Mr. Bell has been actively involved in the restructuring of the industry and has an indepth knowledge of ISO-NE’s market rules and operating procedures. He was a member of the New England Power Pool’s Markets Committee for over 10 years, as well as the NYISO and PJM Markets Committees for 3 years. From 2008 to the present Mr. Bell has assisted cooperative utililties, municipal utilities, standard offer suppliers, generators, renewable developers, commercial and industrial end use customers, and the Northern Maine Independent System Administrator. Services provided to these clients include, but are not limited to, procurement of retail electricity supply, successful awards to supply standard offer service, generation values assessments, electric rate cases, natural gas rate cases, regulatory issues, transmission and power system assessments/studies. These successful initiatives have provided over $100 million of enhanced the value to our clients.
