Selected Publications & Testimony

 

Overview of Performance-Based Ratemaking and Related Regulatory Incentives, NRRI, February 2010

Clean Energy Scenario Planning: Thoughts on Creating a Framework, for the Hawaii PUC, November 2009

A Charge to Regulators Regarding Capital Cost Reduction Mechanisms, NARUC Electricity Committee, July 2009

A Rate Design to Increase Efficiency and Reduce Revenue Requirement, The Electricity Journal, May 2009

Energy Cost Adjustment Mechanisms, Technical Workshop, Public Service Commission of Utah, May 2009

Aligning a Utility’s Interests with the Public Interest in Cost-Effective Purchased Power Transactions,  NRRI, April 2009

Feed-in Tariffs: Best Design – Focusing Hawaii’s Investigation, December 2008

Return on Equity – Focus on Effective Regulation, NARUC Staff Subcommittee on Electricity, November 2008

Revenue Neutral Energy Efficiency Feebate, Ohio Public Utility Commission Workshop, September 2008

Regulatory Initiatives to Encourage Energy Efficiency, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, July 2008

FERC’s NOPR on Wholesale Competition in Regions with Organized Electric Markets, An NRRI Teleseminar, March 2008

Mitigating “Mandated” Rate Hikes, Public Utility Fortnightly, May 2007

Comments on Mitigating Electric Price Increases, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, M-00061957, June 2006

PA PUC Working Group on Demand-Side Resources; Proposed Evaluation Methodology, March 2004 and April 2004

The Risk-Reward Disconnection, Electric Power 2002, March 2002

Energy Without Meters, A More Marketable Energy Solution, ELC White Paper, Spring 2001

Can Energy and Energy Efficiency Services be Profitably Sold Together?, Infocast, Identifying Retail Energy Customers, October 1999

Mending the Disconnections Between Retail and Wholesale Competitive Electric Markets, Public Utility Fortnightly, September 15, 1999

PECO Energy Restructuring Case, P-00971265 and R-00973953, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, June 1997 and November 1997

Program Evaluation: A Helping Hand – Low-Income Water Conservation Program, Philadelphia Suburban Water, Summer 1996

Cost Allocation for Electric Utility Conservation and Load Management Programs, NARUC Committee on Energy Conservation. Co-author, Feb 1993

A Bridge Between Electric and Gas IRP - Clean Air Act Compliance, NARUC 4th National Conference on IRP, Sept 1992

End-Use Fuel Switching: Is It Fair? Yes, It Is!, The Electricity Journal, June 1992

A Systematic Approach to Gas Integrated Resource Planning, NARUC 3rd National Conference on IRP, April 1991

Acid Rain Solutions - A State Regulator's View, A Utility Forum on Least Cost Options, May 1990

Diversified Menus - Choosing the Quality of  Electric Service, Electric Potential, May 1989

Response to Proposed Gas Transportation Service Tariff, Philadelphia Gas Commission, May 1989

Competitive Bidding: To Be or Monopsony? That is the Question, Electric Potential, May - June 1988

The Nuclear Debate: Move It Below the Line, Electric Potential, March-April 1988

Conservation: Standard Analysis Vs Analytical Standards, Electric Potential, September-October 1987

Regulatory Outs and Guaranteed Recovery of Cost: How Important are They, Electric Potential, June-August 1987

The Bottom Line is Not the Bottom Line, Electric Potential, March-April 1987

Can Peak Power be Deregulated, Electric Potential,  January-February 1987

Rate Shock: Taming the Demon, Electric Potential, September-October 1986

Rate Shock: Understanding the Specter, Electric Potential, July-August 1986

Is the No Losers Test a Loser?, Electric Potential, May-June 1986

A Message to FERC: An Examination of Wheeling Rates, Electric Potential, Jan-Feb 1986

Comments on Infrastructure Financing to the United States Senate Committee on the Budget, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia. Jan. 1986

The Missing Link: The Importance of Pricing of Electric Utility Services, Electric Potential, November-December 1985

Varied Perceptions of Risk: A Classical Review of Current Events in the Electric Utility Industry, Electric Potential, Sept-Oct 1985

Generic Investigation of Cogeneration and Small Power Production, Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control, 85-04-16, July 1985

Application of Philadelphia Electric Company for an Employment and Economic Recovery Rider (Staff Comments), R-832357. PA PUC, May 1983

Generic Gas Cost Rate Investigation, M-78050055, D-79S00192. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, March 1983

The Three Mile Island Accident: A Ratemaking Perspective, Electric Ratemaking, August 1982, co-author, D. Rolka

The Energy Price Adjustment Clause: An Incentive for Cost Effectiveness, Electric Ratemaking, February 1982

Rate Incentive Provisions: A Framework of Analysis and Survey of Activities, NRRI, co-author, W. Pollard et al., November 1981

Decommissioning: A State Perspective, Decontamination and Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities, American Nuclear Society, Sept 1979

Return on Effectiveness, Sixth Energy Technology Conference, April 1979; also EPRI Workshop, February 1979