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What Colorado’s First-Ever Gas Infrastructure Plan Teaches Us About Gas Planning
A blog post highlighting lessons from Colorado’s first Gas Infrastructure Plan, emphasizing the importance of transparent planning, stakeholder engagement, and regulatory tools to manage the transition away from natural gas.
California’s Virtual Power Potential: How Five Consumer Technologies Could Improve the State’s Energy Affordability
A report documenting how different consumer technologies could be aggregated as virtual power plants (VPPs), with the goal of estimating the market potential for VPP deployment in California.
Virginia Data Center Study Electric Infrastructure and Customer Rate Impacts
A report on the impacts of data center growth on Virginia’s electric infrastructure needs and associated costs, as well as the distribution of these costs across customer classes.
Improving the PBR Framework in Hawai’i: Addressing the Risk of “Capex Bias”
An analysis of Hawaii’s performance-based regulation framework, identifying risks of capital expenditure bias and proposing refinements to incentive structures to align utility investments with cost efficiency and policy objectives.
