No state in America is currently doing utility regulation well. But there’s hope.
Oregon tries to tie utility profits to climate, cost, and reliability targets through performance-based regulation.
Learn how this state developed a community microgrid law to enhance community resilience against power shutoffs and grid failure.
For this episode of the Local Energy Rules podcast, host John Farrell and guest Isaac Moriwake discuss how Hawaii’s new performance-based utility regulation will adjust...
These plug-in devices bypass utility hassles to offer cheap, convenient power for everyone.
What if we changed monopoly utility governance to give consumers more control over utility decisions?
In this rebroadcast from Volts, Chairman Marissa Gillett of Connecticut’s Public Utilities Regulatory Authority talks about the challenges of reforming utility regulation given investor-owned utilities’...
Mark Ellis spent years as a chief economist and chief of corporate strategy for investor-owned utilities. He now testifies in support of intervenors. Here are...
For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John Farrell and guest Ari Peskoe discuss how utilities have gained outsized market power by...
For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, a rebroadcast from the Building Local Power Podcast, host John Farrell and guest Chris Villarreal discuss...
For 100 years, most decisions about the U.S. electric grid have been made at the top by electric utilities, public regulators, and grid operators. That...
Steve Fenberg discusses Colorado’s Senate Bill 291, which changed incentives in the investor-owned utility business model to protect Colorado consumers from high fossil fuel costs...
Communities all over the country are finding ways to break the macro barriers to microgrids. As we flip from a top-down to bottom-up grid management...
Seth Handy explains how utilities have, through loopholes in federal guidance and friends on public regulatory bodies, protected their own interests at the expense of...
For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, a rebroadcast from the Building Local Power Podcast, host John Farrell and guest Michael Murray discuss...