Michael Sloan currently serves as Managing Director of ICF’s Oil and Gas Advisory Group. After graduating from Dartmouth College in New Hampshire, he moved to the Washington DC area, where he has spent more than 30 years working in the energy industry providing analytical and regulatory support for gas utilities, natural gas storage valuation and assessment, and analysis of propane demand. His responsibilities include economic analyses of facility expansion projects, market assessments for corporate acquisitions, estimation of economic damages in litigation cases, and strategic analysis of regulatory issues.
Currently, Mr. Sloan is working with AGA and with a number of LDC’s to evaluate the costs and benefits of electrification as a decarbonization strategy. He is also working with several natural gas utilities to evaluate the potential to defer or avoid new investments in natural gas infrastructure through the use of targeted DSM, demand response, and alternative sources of natural gas supply.
Mr. Sloan has testified on a variety of natural gas issues, including pipeline expansion and storage expansion economics, natural gas avoided costs, natural gas storage market power, natural gas storage economics and landowner issues, and natural gas market liquidity. Mr. Sloan has also conducted extensive analysis of residential and commercial energy markets, including assessments of potential growth and loss of market share due to both competitive and policy driven market factors for both the propane and natural gas industries.