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This Issuesletter explores an alternative to frequent reviews of utility costs and setting rates to reimburse utilities for what they spend, performance-based regulation (PBR), which takes a longer term view and focuses on how utilities perform. 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 +
This paper examines how IRP and competition have evolved in the wholesale competition arena, presents examples of existing retail competition and offers a framework for considering what some see as the next step for retail competition — retail wheeling. View Summary +
This paper describes a perspective on the most desirable electric utility industry and regulatory structures at the advent of restructuring in the United States. 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 +
This document was prepared in 1993 by the Northwest Conservation Act Coalition, now known as the NW Energy Coalition. While it is dated, the vast majority of the content remains relevant for consumer and environmental participants in the utility regulatory… View Summary +
This document, produced in 1992 by RAP’s Jim Lazar for the Arizona Corporation Commission, provides the basis for “Dividing the Pie: Cost Allocation, the First Step in the Rate Design Process,” Appendix A of “Smart Rate Design for a Smart… View Summary +
This report examines the remaining policy and practical barriers to the increased use of renewable resources for the generation of electricity and offers several new initiatives to hasten the development of renewable resources. View Summary +