Florence School of Regulation: Summer School on Regulation of Energy Utilities
CONTENT SCOPE
- 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
- Cost classification and functionalization
- Load Retention & Riders
- Below the line rates
- Rate class considerations (Cost/Revenue ratios and cross subsidy), affordability concerns and whether regulators can approve rates that do not cover costs.
- Impact of load forecast on rates
- Peak load considerations and Time of Use Rates
- Long term impacts of riders and deferrals
- Other advanced topics: net metering, feed in tariffs, how to design regulated rate for utilities involved in competitive business (public EV charging)
- Advanced rate design for non-wires alternatives and distributed energy resources
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