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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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Talking Texas Markets, Part 1

Thought, Legislative and Regulatory Certainty

Interviews with Pat Wood, Former FERC and Texas PUC Chair; Kenny Mercado, SVP, CenterPoint; Jim Steffes, EVP, Direct Energy; and Ken Medlock, Senior Director, Center for Energy Studies, Rice University.
Byline: 

Steve Mitnick

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Storms, Rates, Insurance

Entire Economy Pays Price

This past year three hurricanes affected an area which encompassed about eight percent of the U.S. population. According to an article by Joel Achenbach in The Washington Post, dated November 19, 2017, “Disaster claims soar in year of calamities: Federal resources stretched as applications for aid rise tenfold,” these three storms contributed to a year of “record setting disasters.”

4.7 million Americans registered for FEMA aid compared to four hundred eighty thousand in 2016, and an average of a hundred and eighty thousand for the previous three years.

Byline: 

Branko Terzic

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