This newsletter shares program development information on green pricing, a service that electric utilities can offer to their customers to support acquiring more renewable energy resources. This is Volume 2. View Summary +

This Issuesletter evaluates the stranded costs that regulated distribution utilities incur during the transition to competition, including risk allocation in the context of retail wheeling, flexible pricing and special contracts. View Summary +

This presentation discusses performance based regulation, including incentive ratemaking, non-traditional fuel adjustment clauses and special accounting and incentives for DSM, and its use in the industry as it transitions to competitive wholesale markets for generation. View Summary +

This Issuesletter explores an alternative to frequent reviews of utility costs and setting rates to reimburse utilities for what they spend, performance-based regulation (PBR), which takes a longer term view and focuses on how utilities perform. View Summary +

Fully evaluating a demand-side management program requires understanding the impacts from more than one perspective. This chapter explains cost-effectiveness and describes the tests used to evaluate programs. View Summary +

This document contains a compilation of thirteen papers prepared from workshop presentations of The Regulatory Assistance Project. View Summary +

This paper analyzes the utility industry’s financial disincentives for energy efficiency and explores policy options, including decoupling. View Summary +

This paper examines how IRP and competition have evolved in the wholesale competition arena, presents examples of existing retail competition and offers a framework for considering what some see as the next step for retail competition — retail wheeling. View Summary +

This paper describes a perspective on the most desirable electric utility industry and regulatory structures at the advent of restructuring in the United States. View Summary +

This primer is the culmination of a project sponsored by the Energy Conservation Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). It addresses utility and regulatory considerations which are relevant to the strategic planning process in the provision… View Summary +