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Presentation September 16, 2020

Grid Modernization and New Utility Business Model

By Janine Migden-Ostrander, Camille Kadoch

​​​At a Clean Energy Legislative Academy virtual conference, Janine Migden-Ostrander and Camille Kadoch explored the important part that legislators can play in furthering grid modernization....

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Presentation July 1, 2020

Decoupling in New Mexico

By Janine Migden-Ostrander

​In a presentation to the Coalition of Sustainable Communities NM, Janine Migden-Ostrander discussed decoupling and its customizable usage in multiple states....

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Presentation May 27, 2020

Decoupling in the Time of COVID-19

By Janine Migden-Ostrander

​In a National Regulatory Research Institute webinar, Janine Migden-Ostrander discussed decoupling as a regulatory tool for state commissions responding to the changes in demand, payment and economic distress of customers as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic....

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Report April 29, 2020

Energy Infrastructure: Sources of Inequities and Policy Solutions for Improving Community Health and Wellbeing

By Nancy Seidman, Alice Napoleon, Kathryn Maddux, Christopher James, Dara Torre, Donna Brutkoski, Janine Migden-Ostrander, Ken Colburn, Jamie Hall, Jennifer Kallay, Max Chang, Philip Eash-Gates, Denise Harlow, Meg Power

In this report, produced with the support of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Synapse Energy Economics, RAP and Community Action Partnership take an in-depth look at the disparate impacts electric and natural gas infrastructure have on economic, social, and health outcomes — and consider how to ensure that a clean-energy future is a more equitable future. Th...

Climate and Public Health, Energy Efficiency and Demand Response, Integrated Energy and Environmental Policy, Integrated Resource Planning, Regulation and Governance Download View Summary
Presentation September 25, 2019

Microgrid Regulations in Honduras – Designing a Tariff for a Microgrid

By Janine Migden-Ostrander

​​In a presentation to the Honduras Ministry of Energy, the regulatory commission and other stakeholders, Janine Migden-Ostrander discussed smart rate design that enables microgrid development, of particular import in rural areas where residents lack access to electricity.​...

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Presentation September 24, 2019

Microgrid Regulations in Honduras – Governance and Institutional Considerations

By Janine Migden-Ostrander

​In a presentation to the Honduras Ministry of Energy, the regulatory commission and other stakeholders, Janine Migden-Ostrander discussed regulations that enable microgrid development, of particular import in rural areas where residents lack access to electricity....

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Presentation September 20, 2019

Grid Modernization and New Utility Business Model

By Janine Migden-Ostrander

​​At a Clean Energy Legislative Academy conference in Breckenridge, Colorado, RAP’s Janine Migden-Ostrander and Mike O’Boyle of Energy Innovation explored the part that legislators can play in furthering grid modernization. ​...

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Presentation August 20, 2019

Grid Modernization and New Utility Business Model

By Janine Migden-Ostrander

​At a Clean Energy Legislative Academy conference in Breckenridge, Colorado, RAP’s Janine Migden-Ostrander and Mike O'Boyle of Energy Innovation explored the part that legislators can play in furthering grid modernization....

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Journal Article August 1, 2019

Power Sector Transformation in State Utility Regulation: To Boldly Go Where No Regulator Has Gone Before

By Janine Migden-Ostrander

A decarbonized energy sector’s many benefits include lower prices, grid resiliency and cleaner energy. However, in order to attain this goal, regulators will need to actively engage in regulatory reforms that align utilities’ actions with the public good. Tools that can advance this objective include rate design reforms, decoupling, performance-based ratemaki...

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Presentation July 10, 2019

Revenue Regulation: Options for New Mexico (open meeting)

By Megan Anderson, Janine Migden-Ostrander, Frederick Weston

​Megan O'Reilly, Janine Migden-Ostrander and Frederick Weston met with commissioners and staff of the New Mexico Public Regulatory Commission to discuss the theory and practice of revenue-based regulation ("decoupling") in the U.S. and elsewhere. New Mexico recently enacted a law encouraging the use of alternative regulatory methods that better align pri...

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