Pricing

Rate Design, Cost of Capital, and Cost-of-Service Testimony for Michigan Utility

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.

Continue Reading


Retail Choice in Electricity: What Have We Learned in 20 Years?

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.

Continue Reading


Tesla’s Powerwall May Herald an Era of Residential Demand Charges

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.

Continue Reading


Pricing Retail Electricity in a Distributed Energy Resources World

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.

   View PDF


Dan Hansen Presents on Energy Utility Basics

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.

Continue Reading


Dan Hansen Presents on Transforming the Utility Business Model

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.

Continue Reading


Steve Braithwait to Present on Critical Peak Pricing

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.

Continue Reading


Steve Braithwait to Discuss Efficient Electricity Rates and Dynamic Pricing

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.

Continue Reading