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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...
RAP's Ranjit Bharvirkar, William Shobe from the University of Virginia, and Dallas Burtraw from Resources for the Future recently delivered four workshops on the Economics for Wholesale Electricity Markets in India. Power Systems Operation Corporation of India (POSOCO) hosted the workshops at their national and regional despatch centres: National Loa...
At a National Association of Clean Air Agencies conference in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Jessica Shipley highlighted the air quality improvements from beneficial electrification. ...
Greater integration of wholesale energy markets in Europe holds enormous potential to benefit consumers in the region. The European Commission and others estimate that the increase in social welfare of fully integrating Europe’s electricity markets could exceed €40 billion annually by 2030. However, progress toward fully realising these public benefits dep...
The International Energy Agency reported in 2016 that energy efficiency is increasingly understood as a key component of low-carbon energy policy. The European Union encourages Member States to introduce energy efficiency obligation schemes (EEOS) to help meet energy savings objectives. Today, the EU boasts 15 active programs, more than double the number upon int...
In a presentation for the Baker Botts law practice in Washington, D.C., Nancy Seidman explored the air quality enhancements associated with beneficial electrification....
Jim Lazar spoke at the EUCI Residential Demand Charges workshop in Nashville, Tennessee. He addressed the challenges involved in designing an equitable and efficient residential demand charge and the advantages of using time-varying energy rates for residential customers. ...
In his presentation at Rocky Mountain Institute's 2018 e-Lab Accelerator meeting, Carl Linvill offered Amory Lovins' "snapback" analysis approach as a tool for evaluating policy options on distributed energy resources....
The Energy Regulators Regional Association (ERRA) invited Christos Kolokathis to speak at the Annual Chairmen Meeting in Sochi, Russian Federation. Mr. Kolokathis explored the role of regulation in adapting to technological innovation in the power sector, in particular, the role of smart rate design and performance-based regulation....
