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Rate Design Reform

Listen to Bonbright, Kahn, and Behavioral Economists

The time for rate design reform is right. Utilities, regulators and others recognize that pricing is a vastly untapped source of demand-side resources with the ability to alter both consumption and peak demand.
Byline: 

David Boonin

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A Modern Rate Architecture for California's Future

Enabling the IOUs to be Effective Change Agents

Pacific Gas and Electric, San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison have developed a new framework for customer rates that reflects the changing dynamics of the electric power industry and customer choice.
Byline: 

Margot Everett, Cynthia Fang, Andre Ramirez and Jude Schneider

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Forging a Path to the Modern Grid

Energy Efficiency Solutions

It's not news that power systems across the United States are experiencing an upheaval. With the greater deployment of energy efficiency, renewable energy and distributed resources, as well as different usage patterns and customer demands, today's grid is struggling to perform to our expectations.

Transitioning to a more modern electrical grid will require changes to the pricing structures used by electric utilities, moving beyond the traditional two-part rate with its roots in the nineteenth century.

Byline: 

Natasha Vidangos

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Price Responsive Demand

Economic Experiments

It is little wonder why so many commissions prefer a regulatory model that shields most consumers (especially residential) from real time market volatility.
Byline: 

Tony Clark

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Do Load Shapes of PV Customers Differ?

Implications for Rate Design

A load shape for PV customers that is materially different from the status quo residential customer may be sufficient grounds to implement a separate rate class.
Byline: 

Ahmad Faruqui and Walter Graf

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Electricity or Natural Gas

Which Holds the Real Price Advantage?

The price of electricity per Btu based on marginal costs may be considerably lower than the price of natural gas when the grid is primarily supplied by wind and solar.
Byline: 

Mark Beyer

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