Law & Lawyers

A New Face For PBR

Aligning Incentives in the Electric Utility Ecosystem

Incentives for most performance-based regulation do little to move the Utility of the Future agenda forward.

Electricity or Natural Gas

Which Holds the Real Price Advantage?

The price of electricity per Btu based on marginal costs may be considerably lower than the price of natural gas when the grid is primarily supplied by wind and solar.

Grid Resilience

What’s in a Name?

It is not clear how FERC will define resilience. A key challenge will be to provide precision and certainty.

Can of Worms

Energy Department NOPR Forcing Difficult Conversations

Parties are warring over whether preventing certain plants from retiring makes the grid resilient.