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In a webinar presentation, Jim Lazar, Mark Lebel and Paul Chernick discussed and answered questions about their newly published manual, Electric Cost Allocation for a New Era, covering the basics of cost allocation, current best practices and cutting-edge reforms....
This policy brief, a generic version of a memo provided for a state public utility commission, considers starting points for how to apply performance-based regulation and associated performance incentive mechanisms to distribution system investments by utilities. Ensuring that such investments are cost-effective begins by outlining goals that a state utility c...
In December 2019, the European Network of Transmission System operators for Electricity, ENTSO-E, asked stakeholders to comment on the organisation’s proposal for a Methodology for a European Resource Adequacy Assessment (ERAA). The purpose of the ERAA is to assess the risks to a secure supply of electricity over the next 10 years. These public comments were ...
Technology has evolved faster than utility-offered rate designs have, and consumer choice will continue to grow as advanced energy technologies -- from electric vehicles to battery storage -- and smart grid optionality become available. These changes should likewise prompt advances in electricity pricing, in order to send price signals that are consistent with gr...
Für die Elektrifizierung des Verkehrs- und Wärmesektors bei den privaten Verbrauchern werden neue, aber auch flexible Lasten im Verteilnetz angeschlossen. Um den Ausbau und die dadurch entstehenden Kosten begrenzen zu können, hat das Bundeswirtschaftsministerium ein Gutachten unter dem Titel „Digitalisierung der Energiewende“ vergeben. Die Ausarbeitung von...
At the one-day workshop on power system transformation at Maharashtra state-level, which was organized by IEA, NITI Aayog and Prayas, Rasika Athawale spoke of the role of demand flexibility for higher integration of VRE into the state grid. She presented results from E3 India model to demonstrate benefits of a higher RE share to the state’s macroeconomy. She co...
As the market for electric vehicles (EVs) in the United States continues to grow, states are beginning to pay more attention to the issues that arise. While no one state agency has clear responsibility for it, utility commissions are taking their first steps toward determining how best to prepare for, accommodate and promote this transition. They are meeting w...
In a presentation for the Association of Air Pollution Control Agencies' energy committee, Nancy Seidman described significant health benefits resulting from efficiency and renewables and highlighted an innovative new Environmental Protection Agency tool useful for quantifying those benefits....
In a briefing for the Massachusetts Legislature, Nancy Seidman described significant health benefits resulting from efficiency and renewables and highlighted an innovative new Environmental Protection Agency tool useful for quantifying those benefits....
