Chairing NARUC's Committee on Consumers and the Public Interest
NARUC Committee Chairs
A conversation with Commissioner Maida Coleman, Missouri PSC.
Fortnightly Magazine - October 2019
AEP-EPRI's Power-in-Pollinators Initiative
Run-Up to Fortnightly Top Innovators 2019
The power industry maintains millions of acres of land. This initiative supports pollinators and encourages plants that aren't going to grow into power lines.
EV Managed Charging
Time to Act is Now
At a minimum, to fully leverage managed charging benefits, all chargers financed via the rate base should be managed charging capable.
Future of FERC Reporting, Through the XBRL Looking Glass
State Response Matters
As FERC begins its process of adopting the new digital reporting standard, eXtensible Business Reporting Language or XBRL, it opened the opportunity for the states to become active in the process. The data structure design has the potential to dramatically change how state public utility commissions are able to oversee the utilities they regulate.
Buying Solar Energy by The Minute
Aligning Benefits with Costs
There is a better way to implement the Buy All-Sell All model. Instead of setting VoS rates based on speculative forecasts, why not just pay prices that reflect the actual, contemporaneous value of the solar energy? Why not, effectively, buy the solar energy by the minute?
Smart Communities Share Infrastructure
Synergy Smarter
One new variation on the traditional utilities business model involves leveraging public-private partnerships to overcome the funding and jurisdictional challenges of smart communities.
Let's Not Forget Balancing Act of Regulation
Commissions Confront Challenges
Changed economic, market, operating, and policy conditions justify commissions revisiting the public interest effects of existing ratemaking and other practices.
No Longer Simple Energy
Uplight Merges Six Companies
What did you do this summer? While most of us enjoyed a vacation, Justin Segall spent his summer seemingly like a superhero, accomplishing with his team an amazing blitz of mergers aimed at changing the utility customer experience.
Uplight is new. And bright. Announced in July from the merger of Simple Energy and Tendril, it builds upon combining the recent acquisitions of EEme, EnergySavvy, and FirstFuel. In other words, Justin Segall has been busy!
Offshore Wind – Export Cables or Backbone Transmission?
Marine Transmission Options
Both Maryland and New Jersey insulated offshore wind developers from upgrade cost uncertainty through a two-part bid with one part indexed to the actual upgrade cost, determined after project selection.
To Get There from Here – On Decarbonization
Getting the Details Right
The complex interaction of all our energy supply options and how they interact in the end will affect jobs, lives, public health, and bottom lines. Bayless uncovers some cold, hard facts.