Let's Not Forget Balancing Act of Regulation
Commissions Confront Challenges
Changed economic, market, operating, and policy conditions justify commissions revisiting the public interest effects of existing ratemaking and other practices.
Smart Communities Share Infrastructure
Synergy Smarter
One new variation on the traditional utilities business model involves leveraging public-private partnerships to overcome the funding and jurisdictional challenges of smart communities.
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?
Future of FERC Reporting, Through the XBRL Looking Glass
State Response Matters
As FERC begins its process of adopting the new digital reporting standard, eXtensible Business Reporting Language or XBRL, it opened the opportunity for the states to become active in the process. The data structure design has the potential to dramatically change how state public utility commissions are able to oversee the utilities they regulate.
EV Managed Charging
Time to Act is Now
At a minimum, to fully leverage managed charging benefits, all chargers financed via the rate base should be managed charging capable.
AEP-EPRI's Power-in-Pollinators Initiative
Run-Up to Fortnightly Top Innovators 2019
The power industry maintains millions of acres of land. This initiative supports pollinators and encourages plants that aren't going to grow into power lines.
Chairing NARUC's Committee on Consumers and the Public Interest
NARUC Committee Chairs
A conversation with Commissioner Maida Coleman, Missouri PSC.
Delaware PSC Celebrates 70th Anniversary!
A Day at the Delaware PSC
The PUF team traveled to Dover, Delaware to visit the Public Service Commission, and the timing was perfect. For the PSC turned 70! Having formed in 1949, the PSC held a reception on September 12, attended by former Commissioners, retirees, elected officials, company executives, and dignitaries to celebrate its platinum anniversary. And there is much to celebrate in this small but mighty state.
Delaware PSC: Regulatory Policy Administrators
A Day at the Delaware PSC
“We still have to testify before the Commission about the settlement to say why we think it’s in the public interest.”
Delaware PSC: Directors and Deputy Attorney General
A Day at the Delaware PSC
A conversation with the executive director, deputy director, and deputy attorney general assigned to the PSC.