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This compendium of regulatory policies focuses on energy efficiency, renewable energy, distributed resources and rate design and discusses the financial incentives and disincentives for development of clean energy, particularly energy efficiency. View Summary +
This document is the agenda for the Indiana URC workshop: Reducing the Cost of Energy in Indiana. View Summary +
This paper examines policy options and approaches for the administration and implementation of ratepayer funded electric utility energy efficiency programs. View Summary +
This paper discusses how portfolio management can improve quality of electric service while reducing costs without impinging on efforts to build competitive retail markets in those states committed to that goal. View Summary +
Topics covered in this paper include power system reliability benefits from distributed energy resources, customer-owned generation, customer supplied ancillary services, and improved pricing signals in wholesale and retailmarkets. View Summary +
The purpose of this paper is to describe implementation options for two concepts: deaveraged distribution credits and distributed resource development zones, as first described in Profits and Progress Though Distributed Resources (NARUC,February 2000). View Summary +
This report explores the role that cost-effective energy efficiency and load management resources can play in restoring the demand-supply balance in electricity. View Summary +
This paper reviews state taxation of electricity during restructuring and recommends changes to preserve tax revenue stability while enhancing economic efficiency in the electric sector and positively affecting the environment as well. View Summary +
This report looks at the relationship between the use of distributed resources and utility profits, and describes the market environment where cost-effective distributedresources can compete with central station generation. View Summary +
In November 1996, the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissions (NARUC) adopted a Resolution in Support Of Customer Right-To-Know and Product Labeling Standards for Retail Marketing Of Electricity and identified the need to provide retail consumers with clear and uniform… View Summary +
This report makes policy recommendations to the six New England states on uniform consumer information disclosure for the retail sale of electricity. View Summary +
This volume is a collection of papers based on a series of writings and workshops on competition in the electric utility industry presented through workshops to commissions and staff in states across the country in late 1994 and1995. 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 +