Regulation & Policy

Conversation with John Hargrove, retiring CEO of the Association of Energy Service Professionals

Jim Kerr outlines how investor-owned companies, and Southern Company specifically, are responding to ESG issues with transparency and real environmental, social, and governance progress.

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against the same ROE to support either the establishment of new ROEs or the refund of revenues collected under past, superseded ROEs.

Proponents on each side claim to be cheaper than the other side by excluding large externality costs.

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.

When a taxi driver offers a stock tip, it usually means that it is time to sell. When the taxi driver brings up climate policy, you wonder how the issue became taxi cab parlance.

We must pass a carbon tax or cap-and-trade legislation to limit carbon dioxide emissions and phase out fossil fuels, including a large portion of our natural gas, to achieve a renewable future.

A complementary evolutionary strategy may yield near-term bottom line results while the longer-term journey to revolutionize the regulatory model is underway.

As renewables have become cheaper, it is now economical for developing nations to opt for clean power over fossil fuel generation.

Cooperation has produced concrete guidance on time of use rates, described in a new joint paper.