Energy Policy & Legislation

Conversation with Linda Gervais, Senior Manager for Regulatory Policy, State and Federal Regulation, Avista Utilities.

This article suggests an alternative means of developing a Technology Risk Mitigation Program to address PUCs’ reticence to approve technologies with which they are unfamiliar.

Best practices for defending against FERC enforcement litigations and investigations are emerging.

This article critiques FERC's rationale for entertaining pancaked complaints; describes as background the FPA bias favoring existing rates; and explains, in light of Emera Maine insights, the inability of pancaked complaints against the same ROE to support either the establishment of new ROEs or the refund of revenues collected under past, superseded ROEs.

Why the zero net energy metric is not optimal for the energy system.

This article describes the post-hurricanes scenarios that led to the development of a new policy, the importance of microgrids, a description of the new proposed energy policy that passed the Puerto Rico Senate last November, and implementation challenges of the new proposed policy.

Now is not the time to reverse course, to undermine states’ ability to define and regulate retail electric service.

Better forecasting, planning and grid modernization are needed before attempting to assign additional costs on these groups of customers.

We expected to find that Europeans had figured out a pathway to a clean-energy future, but to our surprise, this was not the case. We found Europeans tackling many of the same challenges we face in the United States.

If other industries are transitioning from a pay-per-use and volumetric model to a subscription model, why should utilities not consider this option as well?