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Clean Energy, Demand Side Management, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Environment, Environmental Policy, Innovation, Power Sector, Regulation, Renewables, Smart Grid, Solar, Transmission

Recent Posts by John Finnigan

• Changing Times for Electric Utilities

Recent Comments by John Finnigan

• "I believe more states will investigate the possibility of replacing net metering with a "value of solar" tariff which quantifies the costs and benefit"
  Changing Times for Electric Utilities
• "I agree that storage would be a game-changer for distributed generation.  Tesla's announcement of a $5 billion dollar battery factory may be an indica"
  Changing Times for Electric Utilities
• "One measure of the fairness of a rate plan, such as net metering, is whether it imposes unreasonable cost shifts on other customers."
  Changing Times for Electric Utilities
• "My thought was that Duke's merchant business and their utility business face the same type of challenge - how can they recover their operating costs a"
  Changing Times for Electric Utilities
• "The rates a utility customer pays are based on the average cost for the utility to serve an average customer over the course of the year.  Net meterin"
  Changing Times for Electric Utilities
• "I agree that regulators should identify the benefits that distributed generation brings to the grid,  and pay the DG owners for those benefits.  By th"
  Changing Times for Electric Utilities
• "At Environmental Defense Fund, we expect to see the following changes to t"
  How Do Utilities Survive And Thrive With Distributed Generation?