Richard Mignogna
Lecturer, Environmental Studies Program
RASEI Education

Rich Mignogna is Principal Consultant with Renewable & Alternative Energy Management (RAEM), LLC, a Golden, Colorado based consultancy that assists clients with strategic technology planning, technology assessment, due diligence, renewable energy management, energy resource planning, and energy policy analysis. Since founding RAEM in January of 2012, he has represented EnCana Oil & Gas and Noble Energy as an expert witness in several proceedings before the Colorado PUC, including rate cases and resource planning dockets as well as the PUC’s proceeding on Developing Scenarios Concerning the Future of Colorado’s Electric Utility Service.

From 2005 through 2011, Rich served on the Staff of the Colorado Public Utilities Commission where his principal role as a Professional Engineer and Senior Authority on Renewable Energy was to advise the commission on emerging technologies and markets in renewable and other alternative energy technologies (wind, solar, geothermal) and to analyze legislative and policy initiatives to promote clean energy generation. While there, he led many high profile projects included an analysis of the small and medium solar systems installed under the state's RPS from 2006 through 2010, a review of co-op REA compliance with the RES, an audit of the Windsource green pricing program that resulted in a restructuring of the program, and the rule making for Colorado's Community Solar Gardens. Rich served as Trial Staff lead in the litigation surrounding the first utility compliance plans filed under Colorado's Renewable Energy Standard in 2007 and as the Commission's Independent Evaluator Liaison in Xcel's 2007 resource planning docket.

Prior to coming to the PUC, for many years Rich led a small technology management consulting firm focused on technology forecasting & assessment, strategic technology planning, technology scouting, due diligence, and S&T intelligence. He was also the founding Director of the Management of Technology graduate program at the University of Denver.

Dr. Mignogna’s academic teaching experience includes graduate and undergraduate courses in Technology Forecasting & Assessment; Strategic Technology Planning; Finance & Accounting for Engineering Managers (aka Engineering Economics or Capital Budgeting for Engineers); Production/Operations Management; Statistical Process Control; and Technology, Ethics, & Social Responsibility. He has also taught numerous industrial workshops in Technology Forecasting & Assessment, S&T Intelligence throughout North America and Europe.   Since 2012 he has also been a Lecturer in the Global Energy Management Program at CU Denver and at Universiti Teknologi Petronas in Malaysia.  He holds B.Sc. and M.S. engineering degrees from the Colorado School of Mines, an MBA from the University of Denver, and a Ph.D. in Operations Management from the University of Colorado at Boulder, and is a Licensed Professional Engineer in Colorado.