Joseph Cavicchi
Senior Vice President
Joseph Cavicchi is a Senior Vice President with Compass Lexecon and is based in Boston, MA. He provides wholesale and retail electricity market regulatory economic analyses in connection with the restructuring of the US electricity industry. In particular, he advises clients in a variety of Federal Energy Regulatory Commission and state regulatory proceedings, and files testimony and affidavits supported by economic analyses.
Mr. Cavicchi’s work focuses extensively on analyzing the competitiveness of the U.S. wholesale electricity markets and developing an in-depth understanding of the operations of the wholesale markets. His work involves conducting wholesale market power screens, analyzing the competitive impact of mergers and acquisitions, and overseeing the development of complex analytical modeling to assess electricity system operations. Mr. Cavicchi combines extensive knowledge of wholesale market operations with general economic theory of contracting and electricity generation plant dispatch in order to provide companies with detailed analyses that can impact both regulatory and business decisions. He has been actively involved in the electricity industry both before and after restructuring for a total of nearly 20 years.
Prior to joining Compass Lexecon, Mr. Cavicchi was a staff mechanical engineer and a project manager at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, overseeing the development, permitting, engineering, construction, and start-up of a $40 million, 20 megawatt gas turbine-based cogeneration facility at the Cambridge campus.
Mr. Cavicchi holds an S.M. in technology policy from MIT, an S.M. in environmental engineering from Tufts University and a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Connecticut.
He is a registered professional engineer in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts and is fluent in Spanish.