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Utility Regulatory Design

MCLI Recommendation: “States should reform utility rate design to remove disincentives for electric and natural gas utilities to invest in energy efficiency. Utility rate design should instead create a utility business model where utility shareholder interests are aligned with making appliances, equipment, and buildings more efficient.”

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Example Public Utilities

NY REV Proceeding

The Reforming the Energy Vision proceeding in New York is a comprehensive effort to change how utilities perform system planning, what financial incentives they face, how they make use of distributed ...
Resource Public Utilities

NRDC Report, Removing Disincentives to Utility Energy Efficiency Efforts

NRDC has published a fact sheet on electric utility revenue decoupling and the potential value it provides to prioritizing energy efficiency investments.
Example Public Utilities

Rhode Island Power Sector Transformation Proceeding

In 2017, Rhode Island’s governor requested the PUC embark on a Power Sector Transformation proceeding. The PUC responded with a Phase One report later that year. The report identified existing incenti...
Resource Public Utilities

Report, Beyond Carrots for Utilities: A National Review of Performance Incentives for Energy Efficiency

ACEEE has written a national review of performance incentives for energy efficiency, highlighting financial rewards or earnings opportunities to program administrators, utilities, and shareholders in ...
Resource Public Utilities

Report, Recovery of Utility Fixed Costs

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has published a report surveying a panel of experts on traditional models of how utility fixed costs are recovered and the perverse incentives that system sends f...
Example Public Utilities

California IDER Proceeding

The Integrated Distributed Energy Resources proceeding included a competitive solicitation incentive pilot and a utility regulatory incentive mechanism pilot which will facilitate the deployment of cu...
Example States and State Governments

Oregon SB 978

Senate Bill 978 created an open investigation into multiple aspects of the regulatory structure, including rate design, revenue regulation, grid modernization, integrated resource planning, and others...
Example Local Governments

DC’s MEDSIS proceeding

The District commenced a Modernizing the Energy Delivery System for Increased Sustainability (MEDSIS) in 2015, which, in Phase 2, considered separate tracks related to data and information access and ...
Example Public Utilities

Hawaii Performance-Based Regulation Proceeding

In 2018, Hawaii engaged in a Performance-Based Regulation proceeding, seeking alternative regulatory mechanisms intended to focus utilities on performance and desired outcomes, such as increased renew...