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Energy and Utilities 2026: The Age of Affordability

Finding Balance

“The public needs confidence that spending is being made in the right place, and there is a grid governance role for the customer to be heard. History has shown that when the public understands and supports the utility, rate cases have a greater chance for approval.”
Byline: 

Jason Price and Monica Chandra

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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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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.
Byline: 

Tom Flaherty

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Rate Design Reform

Listen to Bonbright, Kahn, and Behavioral Economists

The time for rate design reform is right. Utilities, regulators and others recognize that pricing is a vastly untapped source of demand-side resources with the ability to alter both consumption and peak demand.
Byline: 

David Boonin

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A Modern Rate Architecture for California's Future

Enabling the IOUs to be Effective Change Agents

Pacific Gas and Electric, San Diego Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison have developed a new framework for customer rates that reflects the changing dynamics of the electric power industry and customer choice.
Byline: 

Margot Everett, Cynthia Fang, Andre Ramirez and Jude Schneider

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Forging a Path to the Modern Grid

Energy Efficiency Solutions

It's not news that power systems across the United States are experiencing an upheaval. With the greater deployment of energy efficiency, renewable energy and distributed resources, as well as different usage patterns and customer demands, today's grid is struggling to perform to our expectations.

Transitioning to a more modern electrical grid will require changes to the pricing structures used by electric utilities, moving beyond the traditional two-part rate with its roots in the nineteenth century.

Byline: 

Natasha Vidangos

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