Who should pay for upgrades to the high voltage transmission network?
State regulators are setting utility profit rates too high, allowing utilities to overcharge customers by billions in order to overpay their investors.
San Diego may be the only city to have secured upfront funding from utility shareholders to make clean energy cheaper.
Climate leaders can revitalize the movement by rallying against excessive utility profits.
Oregon tries to tie utility profits to climate, cost, and reliability targets through performance-based regulation.
What if we changed monopoly utility governance to give consumers more control over utility decisions?
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...
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...
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...
California’s Senate Bill 332 aims to address the immediate harms of the state's investor-owned utilities while also investing in a resilient future.
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...
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’...
For this episode of the Local Energy Rules Podcast, host John Farrell and guest Yesenia Rivera discuss the People’s Utility Justice Playbook and how to...
Minnesota Power's sale would saddle captive utility customers with higher rates, but bring millions to shareholders.
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...