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Peter Bradford - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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a Regulatory Compact worthy of the name
The Electricity Journal, 1995Co-Authors: Peter BradfordAbstract:Abstract Owners' claims of a right to full compensation of stranded investments are wrong, but a conditional opportunity to recover is sound policy. Matching sensible conditions to future utility conduct is among the greatest challenges facing government energy officials today.
Jerrold Oppenheim - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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the united states Regulatory Compact and energy poverty
Energy research and social science, 2016Co-Authors: Jerrold OppenheimAbstract:Abstract Utility regulation in the United States (US) was founded partly on a consensus that raw marketplace economics ignored social justice, including universal service goals. The century-old ‘Regulatory Compact’ in most jurisdictions offers ‘just and reasonable rates’ in exchange for investment in public services. Justice has come to justify such low-income supports as discounted rates, arrearage forgiveness, limitations on service termination, and low/no cost energy efficiency. The consensus for regulation has now evolved to encompass carbon reduction, and has led to, amongst other things, the promotion of domestic forms of renewable energy known as ‘distributed generation’ (DG). However, such technologies potentially threaten the current Regulatory balance that includes ameliorating energy poverty, because DG reduces utility sales but not utility fixed costs and so contributes to higher bills for low-income households that cannot afford such DG investments as rooftop solar, solar domestic hot water, and cogeneration. The aim of this paper is to analyze how utility regulation might evolve to encompass modern energy developments, thus addressing both the goals of reducing carbon and amerliorating fuel poverty. It begins by reviewing the origin of US utility regulation and describes the Regulatory Compact that resulted. It then discusses possible balancing measures, including tax-based subsidies, system benefit charges (taxes) on DG, stricter application of just and reasonable Regulatory principles, and low-income-specific approaches to DG.
Charles Goldman - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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an assessment of market and policy barriers for demand response providing ancillary services in u s electricity markets
Energy Policy, 2013Co-Authors: Peter Cappers, Jason Macdonald, Charles GoldmanAbstract:Abstract An impact of increased variable renewable generation is the need for balancing authorities to procure more ancillary services. While demand response resources are technically capable of providing these services, current experience across the U.S. illustrates they are relatively minor players in most regions. Accessing demand response resources for ancillary services may require a number of changes to policies and common practices at multiple levels. Regional reliability councils must first define ancillary services such that demand response resources may provide them. Once the opportunity exists, balancing authorities define and promulgate rules that set the infrastructure investments and performance attributes of a resource wishing to provide such services. These rules also dictate expected revenue streams which reveal the cost effectiveness of these resources. The Regulatory Compact between utility and state regulators, along with other statutes and decisions by state policymakers, may impact the interest of demand response program providers to pursue these resources as ancillary service providers. This paper identifies within these broad categories specific market and policy barriers to demand response providing ancillary services in different wholesale and retail environments, with emphasis on smaller customers who must be aggregated through a program provider to meet minimum size requirements for wholesale transactions.
Guliasi Les - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The Evolution of the Regulatory State: Energy Policy and Regulatory Reform in California
eScholarship University of California, 2018Co-Authors: Guliasi LesAbstract:This dissertation examines the evolution of energy policy and Regulatory reform in California from an institutional perspective. The analysis centers on the ideological and interest group political dynamics responsible for the market and Regulatory reform initiatives and the development of energy policy in California from the 1970s to the present. The Regulatory and legislative arenas are chosen as the institutional location in which ideological and interest group politics converge to shape the origins, development, and implementation of public policy. The study begins by describing the anatomy of the organizational structure of the bureaucratic institutions that play the major role in developing and implementing energy policy nationally and within California. It presents the theory of public utility regulation and examines the historical relationship between the modern state and private industry through the lens of the "Regulatory Compact." It traces the history of key legislative measures that mark the evolution of energy policy and Regulatory reform and explains the role that crisis played in creating the social and political conditions that defined and, over time, redefined institutional relationships between the modern state and private industry. The analysis presented supports the claim that crisis in the energy sector led to Regulatory and policy initiatives that disrupted long-established institutional relationships between the state regulator and the regulated energy industry. Political conflict among interests embedded in the structure of the energy industry transformed the traditional role of the regulator from an impartial judge and arbiter of interest group conflict to an active interventionist in the creation and deployment of public policy. The study closes with some reflections on California's energy future, drawing lessons learned from California's experience in initiating market and Regulatory reforms in the energy sector
Peter Cappers - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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an assessment of market and policy barriers for demand response providing ancillary services in u s electricity markets
Energy Policy, 2013Co-Authors: Peter Cappers, Jason Macdonald, Charles GoldmanAbstract:Abstract An impact of increased variable renewable generation is the need for balancing authorities to procure more ancillary services. While demand response resources are technically capable of providing these services, current experience across the U.S. illustrates they are relatively minor players in most regions. Accessing demand response resources for ancillary services may require a number of changes to policies and common practices at multiple levels. Regional reliability councils must first define ancillary services such that demand response resources may provide them. Once the opportunity exists, balancing authorities define and promulgate rules that set the infrastructure investments and performance attributes of a resource wishing to provide such services. These rules also dictate expected revenue streams which reveal the cost effectiveness of these resources. The Regulatory Compact between utility and state regulators, along with other statutes and decisions by state policymakers, may impact the interest of demand response program providers to pursue these resources as ancillary service providers. This paper identifies within these broad categories specific market and policy barriers to demand response providing ancillary services in different wholesale and retail environments, with emphasis on smaller customers who must be aggregated through a program provider to meet minimum size requirements for wholesale transactions.