To plan, organize, direct, and evaluate the activities of the multi-disciplinary staff of the Economic Analysis Unit of the Commission to assure that Commissioners have the information necessary to make informed regulatory decisions in an orderly and timely fashion. The general areas of focus of the Unit are issues related to rate design; resource acquisition; utility planning, programs and tariffs; and telecommunications.  Specific topical areas include resource planning, power purchase agreements, renewable resource and environmental compliance, co-generation and distributed generation, energy efficiency rates and related financial incentives, renewable standards compliance and rate options, service quality and reliability, affordability programs, distribution grid planning, grid mode