Five Questions to Guide Aspiring Smart City Utilities
Public Power
APPO offers a roadmap for public power utilities considering advanced smart city technologies.
Law & Lawyers
Planning the Smart City
Collective Collaboration
Avista Utilities, Itron, the city of Spokane, and Washington State University collaborate on smart city initiatives.
What Was Served, at the Fortnightly State of State Regulation Luncheon
Be There in 2020
The panel consisted of Leo Denault, CEO of Entergy, Arshad Mansoor, senior vice president of EPRI, Connecticut’s Elin Swanson Katz, president of NASUCA, and N. Carolina’s Edward Finley, first vice president of NARUC.
Pricing Innovation
Changing the Game
Business models will be tailored to meet market purpose and require pricing approaches that match the nature of the offering to how customers perceive value.
A Day at the Kentucky Public Service Commission
Eleven Interviews
PUF met with the PSC's three commissioners and its staff.
Chair Michael Schmitt
Kentucky PSC
"We developed a pilot program allowing periodic rate increases without filing a full-blown rate case, to reduce the time to process rural electric cooperative rate cases."
Vice Chair Robert Cicero
Kentucky PSC
"We are trying to bring a private sector perspective to the process."
Commissioner Talina Mathews
Kentucky PSC
"We are responsible for setting rates that are fair, just and reasonable, not accepting rates that someone else has agreed to. That’s a culture change from the utility perspective."
Kentucky Executive Directors
Kentucky PSC
"We tag-team a lot of work. She takes the rate cases, and I take all the administrative-type cases."
Kentucky General Counsel
Kentucky PSC
"We do placement of cell towers in areas that do not have local planning and zoning."