Pricing

Cost Allocation and Pursuit of Fairness, Part 1

Behind the Customer Bill

“The choice of cost allocation method is both a key factor in shaping outcomes and an exercise in judgment. No single standard defines what makes one approach reasonable and another flawed.”
Byline: 

Svetlana Atoyan, Josnelly Aponte

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The Transmission Transition and the Electric Ratepayer, Part 3

Price Tag in Customer Rates?

In part three, we consider institutional consequences if indifference to ratepayer impacts takes root in FERC and federal agencies or in state legislatures and with regulators. How these play out could affect policy sustainability and effectiveness as net-zero goals for 2050 grow nearer.
Byline: 

Bruce Williamson and Branko Terzic

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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?
Byline: 

Robert L. Borlick

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Transitioning to Modern Residential Rate Designs

Key Enabler of Renewable Energy Resources Integration

There are several reasons why the transition to modern rate designs has yet to be deployed to scale. Those reasons are discussed along with proposed solutions.
Byline: 

Ahmad Faruqui, Lea Grausz and Cecile Bourbonnais

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