Mark Grenchik, M.A., Senior Economist

Mr. Grenchik is a Senior Economist at RCF, where he analyzes postal volume developments, energy demand and supply, and electricity pricing. Prior to joining RCF, he was a lead analyst in the Wholesale Energy Group at ComEd. His duties included supporting the trading desk and devising pricing strategies to reduce costs of power purchases. He served as an expert witness before the Illinois Commerce Commission in deliberations seeking to utilize market prices to calculate stranded investment recovery under Illinois’ electricity restructuring law.

Earlier, Mr. Grenchik was a senior economist at the Chicago Board of Trade. He analyzed modifications to agricultural futures and futures options contracts, conducted research for new product development, and completed studies in support of changes to locational price differentials, delivery points, price limits, and speculative position limits. As an adjunct faculty member in the Financial Markets and Trading program at the Illinois Institute of Technology, Mr. Grenchik helped design and co-taught a course in commodity markets.

Mr. Grenchik received A.B. and A.M. degrees in economics from the University of Chicago.