Categories: Demand Response, Innovative Electricity Pricing, Market Design, Pricing, Rate Design
February 24, 2016
In the 1990s, proponents of retail choice projected lower retail prices and innovative products and services. Through a review of studies covering a wide range of retail choice issues, Drs. Morey and Kirsch found a mixed set of outcomes that suggest retail choice has delivered only a small part of its advertised benefits.
Categories: Distributed Energy Resources, Market Design, Net Energy Metering, Rate Design, Testimony
February 3, 2015
South Carolina Electric & Gas Company engaged Michael O’Sheasy of Christensen Associates Energy Consulting to testify to the Public Service Commission of South Carolina about the proposed design of new Net Energy Metering rates.
Categories: Market Design, Wholesale Markets
November 12, 2014
Dr. Mathew Morey and Bruce Edelston, Director of the Electric Markets Research Foundation (EMRF) led a webinar summarizing CA Energy Consulting's recent report for EMRF entitled "Ensuring Adequate Power Supplies for Tomorrow's Electricity Needs".
Categories: Market Design, Wholesale Markets
June 16, 2014 - Kelly Eakin and Robert Camfield
The Electric Markets Research Foundation commissioned CA Energy Consulting to examine the ability of the U.S. electric power industry to build and maintain sufficient electric generating capacity to meet the country’s present and future needs.
Categories: Load Impact Evaluation, Market Design
November 8, 2012 - Brad Wagner
On behalf of the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission, Dr. Mathew Morey, Dr. Laurence Kirsch, and other Christensen Associates staff have written a report that identifies ways of implementing programs and mechanisms that mitigate the impacts of electric rate increases on the market competitiveness of industrial and manufacturing businesses. The investigation into these options was spurred by the international competitive challenges faced by Kentucky's two aluminum smelters, including the challenges of relatively low-priced electricity in other countries.
Categories: Market Design, Wholesale Markets
September 20, 2012
Dr. Mathew Morey and Dr. Laurence Kirsch, on behalf of The American Public Power Association (APPA), National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), and the New York Association of Public Power (NYAPP), studied the capacity market operated by the New York System Operator (NYISO). In the study, the authors find that there is no need to fix what is not broken. The existing capacity market structure has provided generation capacity where it is most highly valued, using diverse fuels and meeting a variety of renewable resources and environmental policy goals. This success has been achieved without resorting to a mandatory forward market such as those used by PJM and ISO-New England. The current design does not require replacement by a mandatory forward centralized capacity market.