Categories: Performance-Based Ratemaking, Rate Design
December 13, 2023 - Nicholas Crowley and Michael Ty Clark
In December 2023, Christensen Associates Energy Consulting experts Nick Crowley and Mike Clark filed testimony on behalf of the New Hampshire Department of Energy to assist in the review of a utility rate application.
Categories: Cost of Capital, Cost-of-Service, Pricing, Rate Design
December 11, 2023 - Michael Ty Clark and Nicholas Crowley
In December 2023, Christensen Associates Energy Consulting experts Nick Crowley and Mike Clark filed testimony on behalf of Alpena Power Company to as part of the utility’s rate application.
Categories: Rate Design, Total Factor Productivity
October 29, 2021 - Nicholas Crowley and Mark Meitzen
Christensen Associates Energy Consulting experts Dr. Mark Meitzen and Mr. Nick Crowley conducted a total factor productivity study to determine the X factor for National Grid’s revenue cap formula.
Categories: Rate Design
May 25, 2016
This report identifies and analyzes eleven types of alternative ratemaking mechanisms adopted by various states, particularly those that allow electric transmission and distribution utilities to seek timely recovery of infrastructure costs while preserving incentives to achieve other goals that might be fostered by appropriate rate design.
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, Net Energy Metering, Pricing, Rate Design
May 14, 2015 - Brad Wagner
Utilities and residential solar advocates often find themselves at odds over the pricing of solar electricity, particularly over the policy of net metered volumentric distribution charges. The Powerwall has the potential to align the interests of these two groups, heralding an era of residential demand charges.
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: Demand Response, Demand Side Management, Distributed Energy Resources, Pricing, Rate Design
January 6, 2015
Mat Morey and Laurence Kirsch describe the principles and elements of a retail pricing structure that can be applied to all electricity consumers regardless of whether they have their own distributed energy resources.
Categories: Pricing, Rate Design
October 20, 2014 - Dan Hansen
Dan Hansen participated in WPUI’s Energy Utility Basics Course that took place in Madison, Wisconsin during the week of October 20, 2014.
Categories: Pricing, Rate Design
August 25, 2014 - Dan Hansen
Dan Hansen participated in the EUCI conference "Transforming the Utility Business Model” that took place in Chicago, Illinois on August 25-26, 2014.
Categories: Rate Design, Revenue Decoupling
July 22, 2014 - Dan Hansen
Dan Hansen participated in and helped organize an EUCI conference called “Rate Design Strategies for Meeting Regulatory Objectives” that took place in Denver, Colorado on July 22-23, 2014. Dr. Hansen conducted a pre-conference workshop that included discussions of electric vehicle pricing principles, efficient electricity pricing principles, and dynamic pricing products.