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Pricing Do's and Don'ts: Designing Retail Rates as if Efficiency Counts
Rate design is a crucial element of an overall regulatory strategy that fosters energy efficiency and sends appropriate signals about efficient system investment and operations. Rate design is also fully under the control of state regulators. Progressive rate design elements can guide consumers to participate in energy efficiency programs and reduce peak demand, yet relatively few utilities and commissions have implemented many of these elements. This RAP paper identifies some best practices. Because pricing issues tie closely to utility growth incentives, we also address revenue decoupling.
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Revenue Regulation and Decoupling: A Guide to Theory and Application
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Revenue Regulation and Decoupling: A Guide to Theory and Application
This guide was prepared to assist anyone who needs to understand both the mechanics of a regulatory tool known as decoupling and the policy issues associated with its use. This would include public utility commissioners and staff, utility management, advocates and others with a stake in the regulated energy system. While this guide is somewhat technical at points, we have tried to make it accessible to a broad audience, to make comprehensible the underlying concepts and the implications of different design choices. This guide includes a detailed case study that demonstrates the impacts of decoupling using different pricing structures (rate designs) and usage patterns.
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Energy Efficiency for Alabama Consumers and Utilities
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RAP's Rich Sedano and John Shenot delivered an extensive workshop for the Alabama Public Service Commission about energy efficiency on May 24th.
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