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Rate-Making Principles and Net Metering Reform: Pathways for Wisconsin
A growing number of states have considered reforms to their net metering practices in recent years, a period of decreasing prices for distributed energy resources, rapid changes in technology and evolution of the electricity system. Depending on its design, a net metering program can advance specific policy goals while maintaining sound principles of rate de...
Performance-Based Regulation (PBR): An Overview
In a workshop for the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin, John Shenot and Camille Kadoch provided an introduction to performance-based regulation as a key tool for aligning utility, ratepayer and public interests....
Performance-Based Regulation (PBR): An Overview
In a webinar for the Washington Utilities and Transportation Commission, Camille Kadoch, Elaine Prause and Rick Weston provided an introduction to performance-based regulation as a key tool for aligning utility, ratepayer and public interests....
Smart Rate Design for Distributed Energy Resources
Net metering with monthly netting — a simple billing mechanism for distributed energy resources (DERs), often primarily solar PV — has existed since the early 1980s. In recent years, there has been a wide-ranging national debate about the best methods to reform rates for distributed energy resources, driven by the inefficiencies of traditional rate designs, c...
Beneficial Electrification and EV Rate Design
In a presentation to the South Carolina Electric Vehicle Stakeholder Initiative, Camille Kadoch and David Farnsworth discussed how time-varying rate design plays a central role in optimizing the public benefits of electric vehicles....
Sharing the Good Stuff: Best Practices From Three Minnesota Initiatives
Utility regulators, whether they be veterans or new to the job, are often eager to make a positive impact on the transformation of the electric sector by addressing such areas as distributed generation and storage, electric vehicles (EVs) and carbon policy. Many commissions are breaking new ground in these and other areas and can serve as examples to their peers....
Next Steps on Transportation Electrification
Camille Kadoch explored principles to guide transportation electrification policy, including best practices for electric vehicle pilot design....
Beneficial Electrification
In a presentation for the Southeast Sustainability Directors Network, David Farnsworth and Camille Kadoch discussed strategies to ensure that electrification is beneficial to consumers, the environment and the grid. ...