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Reducing Fixed Electricity Charges

MCLI Recommendation: “Where regulatory requirements and subsidies are not financed through public taxes, state utility commissions should presumptively favor per kWh customer charges rather than fixed fees or cost adders in setting customer energy charges.”

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Connecticut’s Acceptable Components of Utility Fixed Charges

In 2015, Connecticut passed a law defining acceptable components of a utility fixed charge as the fixed costs, operations and maintenance expenses that are directly related to metering, billing, servi...
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Fifty States Reports

The Fifty States Reports produced by the NC Clean Energy Technology Center track, among other things, utility rate cases across the country to give a national snapshot of ratemaking trends.
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Report, Pricing Do’s and Donts

The Regulatory Assistance Project’s publication, Pricing Do’s and Don’ts, documents the impact of rate design on efficiency investments and supports the conclusion that even he costs of power plants, ...
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Report, Recovery of Utility Fixed Costs

Berkeley Lab published a 2016 report, Recovery of Utility Fixed Costs, which surveyed the tensions between fixed and variable rates, as well as a variety of alternative rate structures, from the persp...
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Nix the Fix Fact Sheet

Indiana’s Citizen’s Action Coalition has launched a campaign against higher fixed charges in utility rates, producing a fact sheet documenting the adverse effects on equity, efficiency, and competitiv...
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Central Hudson 2017 Rate Settlement

In a 2018 settlement of Central Hudson’s 2017 rate case, the utility’s fixed charge will drop from $24/month in 2019 to $19.50/month in 2021. “Numerous commenters, including various town, city and cou...
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Findings of a 2016-2017 analysis of investor-owned utility proposals to increase mandatory fixed fees on residents

NRDC, NCLC, and Vote Solar researched the results of rate cases across the US in 2016 and 2017, finding a trend of utilities aggressively proposing fixed charge increases, which Public Service Commiss...
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RAP report, Electric Cost Allocation for a New Era

RAP’s 2020 manual focuses on cost allocation practices for electric utilities in the United States and their implications, acknowledging that charting a new path on cost allocation is an important par...
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Black Hills Energy Fixed Charge Requests

In 2018, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission rejected the Black Hills Energy request for a fixed charge increase from $16.50/month to $20.13/month and recommended lowering it to $8.77/month.