CGA’s Regulatory Course

Industry & Emerging Issues Rate Case & Financial Concepts Advanced Introductory
CATEGORY
Industry & Emerging Issues, Rate Case & Financial Concepts
CONTENT LEVEL
Advanced, Introductory
TOPIC
Advanced Topics in Electricity & Natural Gas, Natural Gas, Performance Based Regulation, Revenue Requirement (ERC Anatomy of a Rate Case Part 1)
COURSE OFFERED BY
CGA
CONTENT SCOPE
  • Natural Gas Industry 101
  • Natural gas market
  • Consumer demands
  • Science of natural gas
  • Pipelines and other gas industry infrastructure
  • Technology development
  • Emissions reduction efforts and other policy goals
  • Advanced topics related to facilities approvals
  • Advanced topics and considerations in conservation & demand side management
  • Rural and remote communities
  • Cybersecurity & artificial intelligence
  • Standards, resilience, & reliability
  • NERC, CSA & Evolution of markets and traditional utility assets
  • Establishing the Revenue Requirement
  • Forecasting exercise to determine the utility’s costs to provide service (i.e., ‘cost of service’)
  • Review and approval process by the regulator so a utility can charge its customers.
  • Alternatives to the traditional cost of service (COS) approach to rate making. Typical components of a PBR plan
  • Effectiveness and regulatory efficiency of COS and how they can be improved. The spectrum of regulation between COS and PBR.
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