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Enhancing Regulatory Commissions' Ability to Fight Climate Change

Potential Legislative Enablements

Some states have explored the concept of value-stacked rate designs, such as New York, but much more needs to be done – often requiring enabling legislation.

Byline:

David Boonin

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Innovation at Scale

Lessons from Europe

The approaches taken by European utilities are portable to other regions and can be instructive to North American utilities considering alternative paths for advancing their innovation models.

Byline:

Tom Flaherty

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To Get There from Here – On Decarbonization

Getting the Details Right

The complex interaction of all our energy supply options and how they interact in the end will affect jobs, lives, public health, and bottom lines. Bayless uncovers some cold, hard facts.

Byline:

Charles Bayless

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Offshore Wind – Export Cables or Backbone Transmission?

Marine Transmission Options

Both Maryland and New Jersey insulated offshore wind developers from upgrade cost uncertainty through a two-part bid with one part indexed to the actual upgrade cost, determined after project selection.

Byline:

Seth Parker and Alex Mattfolk

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No Longer Simple Energy

Uplight Merges Six Companies

What did you do this summer? While most of us enjoyed a vacation, Justin Segall spent his summer seemingly like a superhero, accomplishing with his team an amazing blitz of mergers aimed at changing the utility customer experience.

Uplight is new. And bright. Announced in July from the merger of Simple Energy and Tendril, it builds upon combining the recent acquisitions of EEme, EnergySavvy, and FirstFuel. In other words, Justin Segall has been busy!

Byline:

Justin Segall

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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.

Byline:

Kenneth Costello

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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.

Byline:

Brien Sheahan and Philip Mezey

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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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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.

Byline:

Danny Kermode

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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.

Byline:

Erika Myers

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