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The harsh weather and inaccessible geography of rural Alaska communities pose significant energy challenges to the region, including keeping electricity and other energy costs very high compared to the lower 48 and even more populous regions of the state. Many… View Summary +
The harsh weather and inaccessible geography of rural Alaska communities pose significant energy challenges to the region, including keeping electricity and other energy costs very high compared to the lower 48 and even more populous regions of the state. Many… View Summary +
These are the technical appendices of a study that modeled a prototypical vertically-integrated electric investor-owned utility in the southwestern US that is considering implementing several energy efficiency portfolios, including the impact of these energy efficiency portfolios on utility shareholders and… View Summary +
This study modeled a prototypical vertically-integrated electric investor-owned utility in the southwestern US that is considering implementing several energy efficiency portfolios, including the impact of these energy efficiency portfolios on utility shareholders and ratepayers as well as the incremental effect… View Summary +
The report evaluates Niagara Mohawk’s day-ahead hourly pricing tariff, which was the default service for large customers. The overall experience with RTP in vertically integrated settings has been less than encouraging, these results do not necessarily translate to situations in… View Summary +
This document is a summary of real-time pricing tariff programs that are the default service for large customers in about seven states with retail competition. Dynamic retail pricing, especially real-time pricing (RTP), has been widely heralded as a panacea for… View Summary +
This document is a summary of real-time pricing tariff programs that are optional services for about 40 utilities. RTP has also become the subject of interest in a variety of policy contexts, including integrated resource planning initiatives, ongoing efforts to… View Summary +
In Framing Paper #1, we explore and examine various options for demand response resources to provide load curtailments or decrements in response to market (price) signals in the day-ahead energy market as well as key policy and program design issues. View Summary +
This primer is the culmination of a project sponsored by the Energy Conservation Committee of the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC). It addresses utility and regulatory considerations which are relevant to the strategic planning process in the provision… View Summary +