Fortnightly Magazine - April 2019

NCUC Public Staff

A Day at North Carolina UC

Interviews with Chief Counsel David Drooz, Director-Accounting Mike Maness, Director-Economic Research Bob Hinton, Director-Electric James McLawhorn, Director-Natural Gas Jan Larsen, Director-Transportation Rates Krishna Rajeev, Director-Water and Sewer Dave Furr, Director-Consumer Services Vickie Debnam, and Electric Division’s Jay Lucas.

ISO New England's CEO Gordon van Welie

Leadership Lyceum Podcast Summary

The interview covers recent industry challenges and new policy questions that have emerged as the electric industry moves toward decarbonization.

30 Years of Consolidation

Are the Benefits Real?

Understanding the impacts from prior transactions may tell us a lot about what the industry has actually accomplished and can continue to attain.

Time to Put the Kibosh on Pancaking Section 206 ROE Complaints 

FERC Must Act

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against the same ROE to support either the establishment of new ROEs or the refund of revenues collected under past, superseded ROEs.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