ratepayers – California Climate and Energy Collaborative

As the power sector transforms, can utilities and customers find common ground on ratemaking?

July 5, 2018

collaboration, rate, ratepayers, utilities

“The contention between customer advocates and utilities takes place within the confines of electric utility commission proceedings in rate cases. Those rate cases often go unobserved by the broad public. But all the headline debates and regulatory fireworks over whether to support coal and nuclear or natural gas and renewable energy largely come down to…

How much do residential consumers respond to the price of natural gas?

February 9, 2018

Sarina Soor

economics, electrification, electrify california, finance, fracking, natural gas, ratepayers

“Natural gas is popular because it burns more cleanly than coal in electricity generation and because it is mostly domestically produced—using traditional as well as recently invented frac(k)ing technologies. The frac(k)ing revolution has caused a massive drop in gas prices. This drop has led nerdy economists to ask pesky questions like: “How do consumers’ consumption…

Utilities planning to move Californians to time-of-use pricing need solutions for low-income customers

February 9, 2018

Sarina Soor

CPUC, customers, dac, low-income, pricing, ratepayers, time of use, time of use pricing

“Last month, all three of California’s major investor-owned utilities submitted applications to the California Public Utilities Commission detailing their respective strategies for how to transition residential customers to time-of-use pricing. Time-of-use pricing, if done right, is a low-cost strategy to help meet California’s climate and clean energy goals. This innovative tool can help the state…