Empowering Consumers while Managing Risk and Optimizing Assets
Owning gas reserves benefits consumers?
Trying to fix mandatory capacity markets like trying to win at Whack-A-Mole, Part II
We talked with Jim Fama, retiring and on his last day at EEI, about his remarkable career.
After 20 years of consolidation, the industry looks distinctly different.
Lions and luminaries who led the changes in utilities.
Organized markets will ensure the optimal number of bulbs are screwed in, at the marginal cost of bulb screwing.
How many utility commissioners does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Five. A problem for three-person commissions. Three commissioners to hear testimony on whether changing the bulb is in the public interest. One more commissioner to direct staff to write the decision and order, to screw it in. And a fifth commissioner to hear appeals, as to whether screwing it in is actually least cost.
How many utility rate managers does it take to screw in a light bulb?
Towards a consensus-based outline of how technological advances can be encouraged and risk-managed.
The monopoly utility model was once expansive and revolutionary. Now, it is contracting and preservationist.
The future of the energy sector and environment is at stake.