Categories: Innovative Electricity Pricing, Performance-Based Ratemaking, Rate Design
November 13, 2024 - Nicholas Crowley, Sherry Wang, and Andis Romanovs-Malovrh
A CA Energy Consulting project team authored a jurisdictional review of utility remuneration models for the Ontario Energy Board.
Categories: Rate Design
October 7, 2024 - Nicholas Crowley and Dan McLeod
Electric and gas utilities have increasingly adopted multi-year rate plans as a way to address rising costs and streamline the regulatory process. These plans offer potential benefits such as improved cost efficiency, reduced regulatory uncertainty, and greater investment incentives. However, they may also present challenges.
Categories: Cost of Capital
August 22, 2024 - Nicholas Crowley
In August 2024, Nick Crowley filed cost-of-capital testimony on behalf of Florida Public Utilities Company as part of its rate application before the Florida Public Service Commission.
Categories: Cost-of-Service, Innovative Electricity Pricing, Performance-Based Ratemaking, Rate Design
July 31, 2024 - Bruce Chapman, Dan Hansen, Michael Ty Clark, and Nicholas Crowley
Four experts from CA Energy Consulting presented at the 2024 Edison Electric Institute Electric Rates Course on issues related to costing, pricing, and incentive regulation.
Categories: Cost of Capital, Cost-of-Service, Performance-Based Ratemaking
April 23, 2024 - Nicholas Crowley and Dan McLeod
Analysis by Mr. Nicholas Crowley and Dr. Daniel McLeod finds that consumer prices for electricity have increased substantially since the Covid-19 pandemic.
Categories: Innovative Electricity Pricing, Rate Design
March 19, 2024 - Michael Ty Clark, Nicholas Crowley, and Michael Vigdor
Three speakers from CA Energy Consulting presented at the 2024 EUCI Avoided Costs for Electricity Services workshop on costing and pricing using avoided costs.
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: Performance-Based Ratemaking
January 20, 2023 - Mark Meitzen and Nicholas Crowley
In January 2023, Christensen Associates Energy Consulting experts Mark Meitzen and Nick Crowley filed testimony on behalf of EPCOR Distribution and Transmission, Inc., related to the company’s third generation performance-based regulation framework.
Categories: Performance-Based Ratemaking
November 30, 2022 - Mark Meitzen and Nicholas Crowley
The Department of Public Utilities in Massachusetts recently approved a second generation performance-based regulation proposal by Eversource Energy, continuing incentive regulation in the state of Massachusetts.
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: Performance-Based Ratemaking
October 14, 2021 - Nicholas Crowley and Mark Meitzen
In October 2021, the journal Utilities Policy published Nick Crowley and Mark Meitzen’s paper “Measuring the price impact of price-cap regulation among Canadian electricity distribution utilities.”
Categories: Innovative Electricity Pricing, Performance-Based Ratemaking
November 30, 2017 - Mark Meitzen
On November 30, 2017, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities accepted a proposed five-year performance-based ratemaking mechanism for NSTAR Electric Company and Western Massachusetts Electric Company (Eversource).
Categories: Performance-Based Ratemaking
September 22, 2017 - Mark Meitzen
Mark Meitzen and Phil Schoech teamed with Dennis Weisman, Professor Emeritus at Kansas State University, to write the forthcoming piece “The Alphabet of PBR in Electric Power: Why X Does Not Tell the Whole Story.”
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: Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2016 - Dan Hansen and Michael Ty Clark
CA Energy Consulting presents ex-post and ex-ante load impact evaluations for the statewide Demand Bidding Program (“DBP”) in place at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”), Southern California Edison (“SCE”), and San Diego Gas and Electric Company (“SDG&E”) in 2015.
Categories: Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2016 - Dan Hansen and Tim Huegerich
CA Energy Consulting documents ex-post and ex-ante load impact evaluations for the statewide Base Interruptible Program (“BIP”) in place at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”), Southern California Edison (“SCE”), and San Diego Gas and Electric Company (“SDG&E”) in 2015.
Categories: Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2016 - Dan Hansen and Michael Ty Clark
CA Energy Consulting reported on ex-post and ex-ante load impact evaluations for the statewide Demand Bidding Program (“DBP”) in place at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”), Southern California Edison (“SCE”), and San Diego Gas and Electric Company (“SDG&E”) in 2015.
Categories: Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2016 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting reported on 2015 ex post and 2016-2026 ex ante load impact estimates for Pacific Gas & Electric Company’s (PG&E) residential time-based pricing tariffs.
Categories: Load Impact Evaluation
March 30, 2016 - Dan Hansen
CA Energy Consulting calculated the 2015 ex-post and 2016-2026 ex-ante load impacts for Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (PG&E) mandatory time-of-use (TOU) rates that were implemented for small-sized, medium-sized, and agricultural non-residential customers in 2015.
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: Transmission
February 4, 2016
Michael O'Sheasy and Josh Rogers develop a method to split pole and fixture costs into customer and demand components in "Parsing Poles and Towers," appearing the the January 2016 issue of Public Utilities Fortnightly.
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, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2015 - Dan Hansen and Tim Huegerich
CA Energy Consulting reported on ex post and ex ante load impact evaluations for the statewide Base Interruptible Program (“BIP”) in place at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”), Southern California Edison (“SCE”), and San Diego Gas and Electric Company (“SDG&E”) in 2014.
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2015 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting documented the results of a load impact evaluation of aggregator-based demand response (“DR”) programs operated by the three California investor-owned utilities (IOUs), Pacific Gas and Electric (“PG&E”), Southern California Edison (“SCE”), and San Diego Gas and Electric (“SDG&E”) for Program Year 2014.
Categories: Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2015 - Dan Hansen
CA Energy Consulting produced ex-post and ex-ante load impact evaluations for Pacific Gas and Electric Company’s (“PG&E”) mandatory time-of-use (“TOU”) rates that were implemented for small and medium-sized non-residential customers in 2014.
Categories: Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2015
Dr. Braithwait will make a presentation on the demand impacts of Gulf Power Company's Energy Select program.
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2015 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting conducted ex-post and ex-ante load impact evaluations for the statewide Demand Bidding Program (“DBP”) in place at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”), Southern California Edison (“SCE”), and San Diego Gas and Electric Company (“SDG&E”) in 2014.
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: Market Design, Wholesale Markets
November 12, 2014
Dr. Mathew Morey and Bruce Edelston, Director of the Electric Markets Research Foundation (EMRF) led a webinar summarizing CA Energy Consulting's recent report for EMRF entitled "Ensuring Adequate Power Supplies for Tomorrow's Electricity Needs".
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: Demand Response
Steve Braitwait presented on the roles of dynamic pricing programs and demand response programs at WPUI's Energy Utility Basics Course.
Categories: Load Impact Evaluation
September 22, 2014
Dr. Braithwait evaluated the demand impacts of Gulf Power Company’s Energy Select program and presented the results.
Categories: Revenue Decoupling
August 31, 2014 - Dan Hansen
Dan Hansen supported Xcel Energy’s revenue decoupling proposal for its Minnesota service territory in August, 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.
Categories: Market Design, Wholesale Markets
June 16, 2014 - Kelly Eakin and Robert Camfield
The Electric Markets Research Foundation commissioned CA Energy Consulting to examine the ability of the U.S. electric power industry to build and maintain sufficient electric generating capacity to meet the country’s present and future needs.
Categories: Uncategorized
May 7, 2014 - Dan Hansen
Dan Hansen presented at the annual Load Impact Evaluation Workshop of the California DRMEC that took place in San Francisco, California on May 7, 2014.
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2014 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting documented ex post and ex ante load impact evaluations for the statewide Demand Bidding Program (“DBP”) in place at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”), Southern California Edison (“SCE”), and San Diego Gas and Electric Company (“SDG&E”) in 2013.
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2014 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
This second volume of the aggregator program evaluation report for program-year 2013 contains an analysis of the performance of the current program baseline methods and of a number of potential alternative baseline methods. The baseline analysis was ordered in the CPUC decision regarding DR activities and budgets for 2012 through 2014.
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2014 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting documents the results of a load impact evaluation of aggregator demand response (“DR”) programs operated by the three California investor-owned utilities (IOUs), Pacific Gas and Electric (“PG&E”), Southern California Edison (“SCE”), and San Diego Gas and Electric (“SDG&E”) for Program Year 2013.
Categories: Program Evaluation, Revenue Decoupling
July 21, 2013 - Dan Hansen
This presentation provides an overview of the independent evaluations of four revenue decoupling mechanisms conducted by CA Energy Consulting.
Categories: Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2013 - Dan Hansen
CA Energy Consulting reports on the ex post and ex ante load impact evaluations of San Diego Gas & Electric’s (SDG&E) 2012 Peak Time Rebate (PTR) program.
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2013 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2013 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting documents the results of a load impact evaluation of aggregator demand response ("DR") programs operated by the three California investor-owned utilities (IOUs), Pacific Gas and Electric ("PG&E"), Southern California Edison ("SCE"), and San Diego Gas and Electric ("SDG&E") for Program-Year 2012.
Categories: Demand Response, Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2013 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting presents a load impact evaluation of the PeakChoice Program offered by Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”) in 2012.
Categories: Load Impact Evaluation
April 1, 2013 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting documents ex post and ex ante load impact evaluations for the statewide Demand Bidding Program (“DBP”) in place at Pacific Gas and Electric Company (“PG&E”), Southern California Edison (“SCE”), and San Diego Gas and Electric Company (“SDG&E”) in 2012.
Categories: Load Impact Evaluation, Market Design
November 8, 2012 - Brad Wagner
On behalf of the Kentucky Legislative Research Commission, Dr. Mathew Morey, Dr. Laurence Kirsch, and other Christensen Associates staff have written a report that identifies ways of implementing programs and mechanisms that mitigate the impacts of electric rate increases on the market competitiveness of industrial and manufacturing businesses. The investigation into these options was spurred by the international competitive challenges faced by Kentucky's two aluminum smelters, including the challenges of relatively low-priced electricity in other countries.
Categories: Market Design, Wholesale Markets
September 20, 2012
Dr. Mathew Morey and Dr. Laurence Kirsch, on behalf of The American Public Power Association (APPA), National Rural Electric Cooperative Association (NRECA), and the New York Association of Public Power (NYAPP), studied the capacity market operated by the New York System Operator (NYISO). In the study, the authors find that there is no need to fix what is not broken. The existing capacity market structure has provided generation capacity where it is most highly valued, using diverse fuels and meeting a variety of renewable resources and environmental policy goals. This success has been achieved without resorting to a mandatory forward market such as those used by PJM and ISO-New England. The current design does not require replacement by a mandatory forward centralized capacity market.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
May 31, 2012 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for SDG&E’s Peak-time Rebate pilot program. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2012 through 2021.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
May 29, 2012 - Dan Hansen
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the Demand Bidding Programs in place at PG&E and SCE. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2012 through 2022.
Categories: Wholesale Markets
March 26, 2012 - Brad Wagner
CA Energy Consulting, in collaboration with Energy Policy Group, has recently produced a report on behalf of the Eastern Interconnection States’ Planning Council and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners. This report assembles information from a wide variety of sources, and compares wholesale market structures, transmission planning processes, and state laws and regulations in the Eastern Interconnection. The information and comparisons will help state regulators understand how market structures and state rules may affect incentives for and barriers to generation and transmission investments.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
March 3, 2012 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the Summer Discount Program in place at Southern California Edison.
Categories: Transmission, Wholesale Markets
September 22, 2011
CA Energy Consulting's Mathew Morey appeared before the Southwest Power Pool's Regional Allocation Review Task Force (RARTF) in September, 2011. At the behest of several Nebraska utilities, Dr. Morey developed an approach to conducting such a "reasonableness assessment" of zonal allocations of transmission investments.
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.
Categories: Demand Side Management
May 16, 2011
Steve Braithwait will present "How Do Large and Commercial Customers Respond to Smart Pricing?" at EUCI's 2011 Demand Side Management conference.
Categories: Demand Response
May 15, 2011
Steve Braithwait will moderate "Evaluating Customer Response to Alternative Retail Rate Structures" at the 2011 Internation Energy Program Evaluation Conference in Boston.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
March 29, 2011 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the Aggregator demand response programs in place at PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2011 through 2020.
Categories: Uncategorized
March 29, 2011 - Dan Hansen
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the Demand Bidding Programs in place at PG&E and SCE. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2011 through 2021.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
October 27, 2010 - Dan Hansen
This study identifies commercial and industrial customers with highly volatile loads and explores their experience in demand response programs offered by the three California investor-owned electric utilities.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
September 17, 2010 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
This study estimated the load impacts from customers in SDG&E’s Participating Load Pilot Program.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
April 21, 2010 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the Aggregator demand response programs in place at PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2010 through 2020.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
April 19, 2010 - Dan Hansen
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the non-residential Critical Peak Pricing demand response programs in place at PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2010 through 2020.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
April 1, 2010 - Dan Hansen
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the Demand Bidding Programs in place at PG&E and SCE. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2010 through 2020.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
May 30, 2009 - Dave Armstrong
This study evaluates the effectiveness of alternative baseline methods used to estimate customer response to demand response programs.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
May 1, 2009 - Dan Hansen and Dave Armstrong
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the Aggregator demand response programs in place at PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2009 through 2020.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
April 29, 2009 - Dan Hansen
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the non-residential Critical Peak Pricing demand response programs in place at PG&E, SCE, and SDG&E. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2009 through 2020.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
April 29, 2009 - Dan Hansen
CA Energy Consulting estimated customer load reductions during event days for the Demand Bidding Programs in place at PG&E and SCE. The study also included a forecast of program load impacts for 2009 through 2020.
Categories: Demand Response, Program Evaluation
August 15, 2008 - Dan Hansen
This study evaluates customer response to two demand response programs operated by the three investor-owned utilities in California. It includes estimated demand response for the 2007 program year of the critical-peak pricing (CPP) rates and the demand-bidding programs (DBP) offered to non-residential customers.