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Blog January 6, 2020

Cost Allocation: New Approaches for a New Era

By Jim Lazar, Paul Chernick, William Marcus, Mark LeBel Read now

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Building on peer-to-peer relationships, our team helps energy and air quality regulators and NGOs navigate the complexities of power sector policy, regulation, and markets.

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Paying our way out of purgatory? Is carbon pricing enough?

After the Pope backs a carbon tax to stem global warming, Louise Sunderland argues that only when coupled with the strategic use of the revenues will carbon taxes be efficient and cost-effective enough.

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We focus primarily on the world's four largest power markets: China, the European Union, India, and the United States.

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Clean, Flexible and Efficient: A Recipe for Energy Optimization

In a special issue of The Electricity Journal guest-edited by RAP, authors explore how to optimize the power system.

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February262020

Cost allocation, one of the major steps in the traditional regulatory process for setting utility rates, has been addressed in several important publications over the past 60 years. These works and historic best practices are foundational — but the legacy methods from the 20th century are no more suited to the new realities of the…

The Regulatory Assistance Project is dedicated to accelerating the transition to a clean, reliable, and efficient energy future.

Cost Allocation: New Approaches for a New Era

What We Work On

Paying our way out of purgatory? Is carbon pricing enough?

Where We Work

Clean, Flexible and Efficient: A Recipe for Energy Optimization

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The Regulatory Assistance Project is dedicated to accelerating the transition to a clean, reliable, and efficient energy future.

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Paying our way out of purgatory? Is carbon pricing enough?

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Clean, Flexible and Efficient: A Recipe for Energy Optimization

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