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Ultimate Triumph of Standard Market Design

Chairman Wood, Commissioners Brownell, Massey, Breathitt, take a bow

Standard Market Design was demonized on the Hill, declared dead by FERC in 2005, and remains a political third rail. But what really became of SMD?

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Steve Huntoon

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Watch Your Language

Beware of Utility Lingo in Customer-centric World

To be heard, utilities must change the habit of relying on rate case jargon for customer communications.

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Roger Woodworth

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Grand Theft with Capital Recovery

Western utility economics puzzle former Communists

I am not sure how many older generation post-communist managers stayed in such positions after the introduction of capitalism and national programs of commercialization and privatization. Under the communist system, the public utility services bill was based on pricing principles far removed from any notion of the cost of the services.

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Branko Terzic

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Challenge of Commercialization

Turning Ideas into Value

Utilities will need to master, on their way to successful innovation commercialization, the ability to think like their future competitors.

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Tom Flaherty

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Residential Demand Charges: Bad Choice

Time-of-Use is a Better Reform

Utilities go too far in their proposals to recover capacity costs from rooftop solar customers who self-generate. The affirmative case for Time-of-Use tariffs that reflect marginal costs is strong for all customers.

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Charles Cicchetti

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Energy Future in Ohio Corn Fields

Village of Minster, Ohio

The real significance and impact of the Minster project lies in the story behind it. It’s the town’s remarkable ability to complete a privately financed solar-plus-storage installation. The leaders have flown under the radar in a state known as one of the least friendly to renewable energy in the nation.

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K Kaufmann

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Facilitating Innovation

Making Regulation a Better Surrogate for Competition

There are some ways, though perhaps modest, for regulators to move their utilities along and encourage appropriate risk taking.

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Jeffrey Goltz

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AMI to IoT

Lesson in Change

In today’s Internet of Things, businesses face a strikingly similar picture to what utilities saw in the early days of the smart grid. Consider what those lessons have in store for us today.

Byline:

Darren Highfill and Brad Bauch

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Reflections from The Room Where It Happened

Leadership Lyceum Podcast Summary

Conversation on M&A: Former CEOs of PHI and NiSource/CPG, Joe Rigby and Bob Skaggs, and Director Les Silverman.

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Tom Linquist

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Energy People: Clint Vince

We talked with Clint Vince, chair of the Dentons LLP Energy sector

Clint Vince has directed the expansion of the U.S. energy team to more than 1,000 professionals in 58 countries. His experience involves major project development, legislative and regulatory advocacy, and litigation and appellate cases, including U.S. Supreme Court advocacy.

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Clint Vince, with Pat McMurray

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