California’s Residential Electricity Rate Reform – An Analysis
Arijit Sen, Sabin Center Summer Intern Recently, two competing plans to reform California’s four-tier electricity rate structure of the three investor-owned utilities (IOUs)[1] have emerged from the...
View ArticleMaine’s Solar Bill and the Value-of-Solar Debate
Arijit Sen, Sabin Center Summer Intern On June 30, 2015, Maine became the third jurisdiction in the United States to approve Value-of-Solar (VOS) pricing for distributed solar generation.[1] Governor...
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8th Circuit rules Minnesota can’t proscribe purchase of electricity from new...
Justin Gundlach Climate Law Fellow As round after round has passed in the political and legal struggle at the federal level over regulating sources of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, states have rushed...
View ArticleNew Sabin Center Report Finds NYISO Could Price Carbon in Wholesale...
by Romany Webb and Justin Gundlach There has been much talk in recent weeks about pricing carbon to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Earlier this month, a group of former Republican cabinet members...
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Dispatch from Québec, Land of Hydropower
by Justin Gundlach Hydro generating facilities (blue dots) and transmission lines (green lines) Three weeks ago, at the invitation of the Canadian Consulate and Hydro Québec, I traveled to see two...
View ArticleKeeping the Lights on These Days Means Planning for Climate Change
by Justin Gundlach Due to damage from Hurricane Irma, the lights are out in much of southern Florida—an inconvenience to many and fatal to some. Meanwhile, in Texas, power still has not been restored...
View ArticleThe ‘Grid Resiliency Pricing Rule’ distracts from the pressing need to make...
by Justin Gundlach As a spate of disasters in the past few months has made painfully clear to people in Texas, Florida, Louisiana, Puerto Rico, and northern California, designing the electric grid to...
View ArticleClimate Resilience in the Bulk Power System: New White Paper
by Justin Gundlach and Romany Webb Resilience—the capacity to withstand, absorb, recover from, and better adapt to disruption—is currently a popular topic of discussion and debate. Several factors,...
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Preparing the Electricity System for Future Hurricanes and Other Extreme...
By Romany Webb Downed power lines. Credit: FEMA Photo Library. Two days after making landfall in the Florida Panhandle, Hurricane Michael has now moved out to sea, leaving behind damage that...
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Pipeline Decisions Do Not Spell Doom for Transmission
Wind farm (Source: Z22) By Michael Burger and Hillary Aidun Last week the Sabin Center and the American Bar Association held an event on addressing landowner concerns in renewable...
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