Tag Archives: Public Utilities

Solar and Distributed Generation: Utility Business Model Threat or Rate Design Problem?

By Bill Malcolm, Guest Author* During the last two years, the utility industry has awoken to the role of solar and other forms of distributed generation and their impact on the utility business model.  At an Indiana Utilities Regulatory Commission forum, … Continue reading

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Utility Commissions Speak on the Future of the Utility: Microgrids in California, Part II

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor Last week’s post on Energy Currents introduced discussion of a whitepaper written by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) Policy and Planning Division titled Microgrids: A Regulatory Policy. In that post we examined … Continue reading

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Utility Commissions Speak on the Future of the Utility: Microgrids in California, Part I

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor In May, we began exploring what state regulators are thinking about the future of the utility. We started by discussing the vision laid out by the Public Utilities Commission of Hawaii.[1] This month … Continue reading

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