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Electricity Customers Are Getting Burnt by Soaring Fossil Fuel Prices
“Cost sharing” between customers and their utilities could have saved ratepayers at least $2 billion during the height of the pandemic.
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Five Steps for Utilities to Foster Authentic Community Engagement
RMI shares best practices for engagement, based on our work collaborating with utilities and communities across the country.
Electricity
Ensuring an Inclusive Clean Energy Transition
RMI’s recovery and revitalization framework aims to ensure that the shift to clean energy uplifts coal communities and workers.
Electricity
Securitization in Action
As the cost of renewable energy continues to decline, over 12 gigawatts of coal capacity are set to retire in 2022 in the United States.
Electricity
Structured Finance for Energy Transition
How to turn a coal plant in Mississippi into clean energy while supporting workers and benefiting customers.
Electricity
A Fair Green Deal for the Last Coal Plant in Mississippi
Late in 2021, Southern Company, the giant utility headquartered in Atlanta, announced it would pursue the retirement or conversion of 15 coal-fired generation units at its power plants, totaling nearly 9,000 MW…
Electricity
The Best Time to Plan Transmission Was 15 Years Ago. The Second-Best Time Is Now.
The United States needs to rapidly expand its long-range transmission infrastructure to meet its climate goals. Federal regulators are now taking important steps to address key barriers to that build-out.
Electricity
Shining a Light on Utility Performance in Hawaii’s Clean Energy Transition
In June 2021, the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) approved an extensive portfolio of performance mechanisms, including almost 40 metrics and scorecards that provide visibility into a wide scope of utility operations.
Electricity
States Move Swiftly on Performance-Based Regulation to Achieve Policy Priorities
Performance-based regulation has gained significant traction in the United States in the past year and a half, with four new states enacting laws authorizing PBR.
Electricity
What Do We Know about Utility Shutoffs of Vulnerable Families during COVID-19?
As households across the United States began to feel the multifaceted impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of grassroots organizers rallied for a moratorium that would protect vulnerable customers facing disconnections from their utility.