Regulatory formulas for rewarding efficiency investments.
Time-tested cost recovery mechanisms provide stable funding for infrastructure replacement.
Regulators weigh interest rate climate and future Fed policy in setting allowed return on equity.
Picturing utilities in a series of sobering snapshots.
Evaluating the cost effectiveness of grid-hardening investments.
Calculating and allocating costs for non-traditional utility services.
Alternative ways to calculate utilities’ costs of service allow policy makers to achieve social goals in a way that’s fair and economically efficient.
The search for a better yardstick.
Show the PUC how your filing stacks up against the others.
With regulators reluctant to OK rate hikes, utilities can better justify an increase – if it compares well with the utility’s peer group.
A pragmatic new approach to assuring reliability.
The latest dispute over PJM’s bidding rules has raised the level of uncertainty in organized electricity markets. Efforts at reform have created a market structure so jumbled that it can’t produce just and reasonable rates -- or assure adequate supply resources. It’s time for FERC to consider alternative approaches to market design.
Only behavioral change will reduce energy consumption.
Standards and technology don't reduce energy consumption, despite the claims of efficiency zealots. Real energy savings only come through behavioral change.