Retail Risk-Based Pricing
A new approach to rate design.
Customers with greater risk require greater working capital set-asides to address anomalous or unexpected events.
Fortnightly Magazine - March 2004
The Road Not Taken
Revisiting performance-based rates with endogenous market designs.
Have regulators selected the wrong market design in their restructurings during the past two decades?
The Reliability Spending Conundrum
What is the right and prudent level of spending on service?
Utilities and regulators who want to determine the right level of spending on service quality should employ three tests: trending, benchmarking, and modeling.
NERC's Cloudy Crystal Ball
How much confidence do NERC demand forecasts warrant?
NERC’s forecasts for peak demand growth have consistently underestimated actual levels of growth. How does that affect projections for new construction?
Technology Corridor: Bridging the Transmission Gap
A digital grid to the home, secured via a local fiber-optic network, could position utilities to fix power and telecom together.
Before billions are spent building new transmission lines to ensure reliable electric service, North American electric utilities should evaluate whether the alternatives — controlling demand and fostering distributed generation — might be more cost-effective and broadly beneficial.