About Us
A Passion for What We Do
Over 60+ Years of Energy Experience
Established in 2013, ETE emerged to meet the growing need for clear and actionable cost analysis to support Distributed Energy Resource (DER) projects. Our founder, James Bride, recognized that the complexity of rates and tariffs created uncertainty when forecasting the financial benefits of renewable generation or efficiency initiatives. As ETE has expanded, our business focus has grown to include regulatory and consulting services to our private sector, institutional, and public sector clients.
Our Unique Brand of Energy Consulting
At ETE, we navigate the intricacies of energy tariffs with a data-driven and client-centric approach to provide customizable, thoughtful solutions to our clients. Our interdisciplinary team boasts a combined 60+ years of experience across business, legal, and engineering disciplines within the energy industry. We leverage this expertise to deliver a powerful combination of rigorous data analysis, in-depth knowledge of rates, tariffs, and state policies, and keen regulatory intelligence and strategy. This allows us to help our clients manage evolving regulatory and policy landscapes at the state and federal level and deliver clear and actionable analysis regarding project financial feasibility and energy cost optimization strategies.
Experience Matters
ETE’s team is a powerhouse of experience, collectively exceeding 60+ years in the energy sector. Our professionals come from diverse backgrounds in business, law, and engineering, bringing a unique perspective to every client challenge. This interdisciplinary approach allows us to tackle complex energy issues with a well-rounded understanding of the market, regulations, and financial implications.
Our Leadership
James Bride, President
Jim has been working in retail energy in some form for the last 16 years. He is an experienced expert witness with appearances in multiple states on topics including rate design, cost allocation, electric vehicles, storage, net metering, and service quality.
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Jamie Tosches, Vice-President
Jamie is the Vice President at ETE where she applies her multi-faceted skillset forged through two decades of work experience to provide customized, innovative, and detailed energy-related rate and policy solutions to ETE’s clients.
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Lexa Nutter, Consultant
Lexa is a Consultant at ETE. She has appeared as an expert witness in
proceedings regarding rate design and marginal costs and has extensive
experience supporting clients in the energy storage sector.
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Lexa is a Consultant at ETE. She has appeared as an expert witness in proceedings regarding rate design and marginal costs and has extensive experience supporting clients in the energy storage sector. In addition, Lexa leads ETE’s service delivery to retail energy suppliers, clients where ETE provides analysis and support on a white label basis, customers of the Price to Compare data product, and anything related to VDER in New York. She is also experienced writing comment letters and coordinating materials required for regulatory reporting obligations. Lexa has a B.S. in Business Management from Boston University.
Jim has been working in retail energy in some form for the last 16 years. He is an experienced expert witness with appearances in multiple states on topics including rate design, cost allocation, electric vehicles, storage, net metering, and service quality. He is also a strong report writer, researcher, and modeler and is able to use these skills to complete assignments ranging from benchmarking projects to economic feasibility studies for various conventional and renewable energy technologies. As a result, Jim has become a trusted advisor to a diverse range of clients throughout the energy industry in North America. Prior to founding ETE, Jim was a subject matter expert in the energy procurement consulting practice group at EnerNOC, Inc. where he focused on North American power and gas markets. Jim has an M.B.A. from Cornell University and a B.S. in Geophysics from Boston College.
Jamie Tosches is the Vice President at ETE where she applies her multi-faceted skillset forged through two decades of work experience to provide customized, innovative, and detailed energy-related rate and policy solutions to ETE’s clients. Her consulting practice focuses on providing a suite of complimentary services to advance her client’s energy interests within state energy regulatory and legislative environments, and to also improve their business decisions during project development and operational phases. Her clients rely on her to provide expert witness and strategy support before state public utility commissions, in-depth analysis of state and federal level energy regulatory and policy environments, and programs, relationship building strategy and execution through coalitions and targeted outreach to regulators, and evaluation and monitoring of state energy policies, regulation and legislation. Her substantive work at ETE focuses on rate design, electric vehicle, solar and battery storage rates, programs and policies, merchant generation rates and regulatory environments, and natural gas safety-related investments. Jamie draws on over 16 year years of experience in working on state energy matters as a lawyer and in a leadership role of a state agency to efficiently simplify the complex energy rate, policy and program questions of her clients. Prior to joining ETE, Jamie held a senior leadership role serving as the Assistant Commissioner of the MA Department of Energy Resources. She also served as the Deputy General Counsel of Energy for the MA Executive Office of Energy and Environment, and as a ratepayer advocate with the MA Office of the Attorney General. Jamie has a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School (2005) and a B.S. from UMass Amherst (1999) with an environmental science major.
Sam is a Research Analyst at ETE. He has experience performing tariff optimization studies, maintaining rate and tariff datasets, and conducting research tasks in support of regulatory monitoring and expert witness engagements. Sam is an EnerKnol power user has developed strong domain expertise in EVs and retail energy markets. He has an M.S. in Energy and Environment and a B.A. in Environmental Analysis and Policy from Boston University.