Default Service Pricing Has Been Wrong All Along
Allows Utilities to Maintain Dominance in Markets
The failure to allocate costs appropriately to a utility business unit is in direct conflict with cost allocation guidance from NARUC.
Pricing
Transitioning to Modern Residential Rate Designs
Key Enabler of Renewable Energy Resources Integration
There are several reasons why the transition to modern rate designs has yet to be deployed to scale. Those reasons are discussed along with proposed solutions.
Market Responsive Pricing for Water Utilities
A Solution to the Diamond-Water Paradox
Adjusting water prices based on supply and demand conditions will create more effective and efficient utilities, lower customer rates and protect the environment.
Beneficial Electrification for All Incomes
Perspective from Cooperative Power
There is a better way to reduce energy costs for low-income households while making progress towards environmental goals.
Why Regulators Should Replace Electric Utility Rate Base
Challenging Choices
If rate base no longer works, consider alternatives. In competitive markets, if retailers are to stay in business, they must recover a profit margin.
Rate Design 3.0
Future of Rate Design
The best rate is going to be a modern three-part rate for all customers.
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.
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.
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.
Finding Common Ground on TOU Rates
Consumer, Clean Energy Advocates
Cooperation has produced concrete guidance on time of use rates, described in a new joint paper.