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In a presentation to the Illinois Commerce Commission's Next Grid Working Group, David Littell outlined lessons learned from various approaches to carbon regulation, in particular the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative....
David Littell presented on best practices for designing standby rates during a panel discussion at the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners' Summer Policy Summit in Scottsdale, AZ....
During a panel at the National Governors Association's annual Governors’ Advisors’ Energy Policy Institute, David Littell presented on the importance of distribution and transmission planning in an era of disruptive technology....
At the Mid-America Regulatory Conference (MARC) in Kansas City, Missouri, David Littell explored the role of regulators in crafting rate design that meets the needs of today's power sector. ...
This report, the first of three volumes of Next-Generation Performance-Based Regulation: Emphasizing Utility Performance to Unleash Power Sector Innovation, examines the concept of performance-based regulation (PBR) and how it can provide a framework to connect goals, targets, and measures to utility performance or executive compensation. It examines leading e...
This report, the second of three volumes of Next-Generation Performance-Based Regulation: Emphasizing Utility Performance to Unleash Power Sector Innovation, focuses on best practices for design, development, and implementation of performance-based regulation mechanisms. It begins by laying the groundwork for understanding the incentives inherent in institutio...
This report, the final of three volumes of Next-Generation Performance-Based Regulation: Emphasizing Utility Performance to Unleash Power Sector Innovation, focuses on how performance-based regulation (PBR) can be used to navigate an era of rapid technological change in the power sector. It examines the trends seen in this rapid change, including the penetrati...
David Littell presented recommendations on utility performance metrics and incentives, as well as various forms of revenue regulation, during a session of the Ohio Public Utilities Commission's PowerForward public inquiry....
Traditional “cost-of-service” regulation, where the rate of return is set on rate base, gives utilities incentives to invest in additional infrastructure to increase their own revenues, even when less expensive options are available to meet customers’ needs. The adoption of distributed generation can raise tensions within a traditional cost of service syste...
At the Future of Transportation symposium hosted by Tufts University and the Acadia Center, David Littell discussed the current design of the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI) and how it might be modified to account for transportation emissions, as well as barriers to electric vehicle adoption in the RGGI states and beyond....
