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: 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: 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: Pricing
August 8, 2011
Steve Braithwait will present “Using Interval Load Data to Estimate Load Impacts of Critical Peak Pricing for Large Commercial and Industrial Customers” at the AEIC Annual Load Research Conference on August 8-10 in Alexandria, VA.
Categories: Demand Response, Pricing
July 25, 2011
Steve Braithwait will discuss “Designing Efficient Electricity Rates” and “Evidence of Customer Response to Dynamic Pricing” at the EEI Rates Advanced Course on July 25-26 in Madison, WI.