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Fortnightly Magazine - August 2025

Rate Design and Continued Battle Over Fairness, Part II

The Price Customers Pay

“Rate design decisions influence customer behavior, utility revenue stability, and the perception of fairness. Getting it right is about more than economics; it’s about aligning public service with utility realities.”
Byline: 

Svetlana Atoyan and Josnelly Aponte

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Affordable Grid Modernization, Part 1

Reconductoring with High-Performance Conductors

“In 2024, Salt River Project completed an eight-and-a-half mile advanced reconductoring project in Phoenix. The project allowed SRP to maintain the fifty-year remaining service life of existing structures while reducing outage-related expenses and still achieving the significant capacity increase needed for growing demand.”
Byline: 

Jason Huang

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Thirty Years of Electricity Competition in Pennsylvania

Driving Down Rates

“As Pennsylvania nears 30 years since the Electricity Generation Competition and Customer Choice Act was signed into law, breaking up utility monopolies and creating competition for power generation and supply, I remain confident – and more at ease – with the decision to restructure the market, after analyzing the most recent data set.”
Byline: 

John Hanger

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Insights from the Regulated Utilities Leadership Institute

Navigating a Dynamic Industry

“A central theme of the program involved the intricate process of rate setting. Faculty guided participants through the fundamentals of rate regulation, covering revenue requirements, capital considerations, and the methods for allocating costs into rates.”
Byline: 

Ewell Lawson

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Affordability and the Art of Regulation

An Evolving Story

“This method of using the least expensive pigments to establish the foundation of a painting before applying the more costly and necessary color was a lesson that carried forward and informed my role as a state utility regulator.”
Byline: 

Paul Kjellander

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NARUC's Eastern Rate School

Learning from Hypothetical Water Rate Case

“Rate school students, who range from commissioners through engineers, accountants, lawyers, and anyone in the utility business, are introduced to enough utility principles, in a small group setting, to be conversant in terminology and learn how to think through problems based upon a hypothetical water company’s rate case.”
Byline: 

Mary-Anna Holden and Butch Howard

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Rigorously Modeling Electric Demand's Enormous Growth

ICF

“Utilities are challenged with managing the higher prices for energy, increased infrastructure to move the electricity, keeping it all reliable, and then somehow trying to figure out how to make it somewhat affordable for people. It’s a complex puzzle that we have to work through.”
Byline: 

Justin Mackovyak

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