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Ensuring Future Capital Access

Utilities Prepare for ESG Financial Challenges

The financial community as a group has not yet moved toward aggressive adoption of socially responsible investing. The utilities sector will need to be creative in future capital sourcing given its massive future capital needs for deployment to clean technologies, grid and network modernization, and digitalization.
Byline: 

Tom Fanning, Kevin Fitzgerald, and Tom Flaherty

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Residential EV Time-Varying Rates That Work

Influencing Charging Behavior

Since forecasts predict much of the future charging load associated with EVs will occur at home, residential time-varying rates will be a valuable tool for utilities to manage system costs by influencing EV charging behavior.
Byline: 

Erika Myers

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Having a Choice is Preferable, Right?

Heeding Albus Dumbledore’s Wisdom

Each month, here, in this very spot, the History Repeats column takes a look back on the large moments in the history of utility regulation and policy. And in doing so, we seek the lessons of history that might be applicable to the practice of pursuing the public interest in the present and the years ahead.

This month we choose to consider the past, present, and future of choice. Or rather, to be more precise, we mean to consider herein the past, present, and future of policymakers' choice — in about a quarter of the states — to allow choice. 

Byline: 

Steve Mitnick

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