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HOT TOPIC Conversation: How It Started vs. How It's Going: California's Journey With Income-Graduated Fixed Charges
Thursday, October 19, 2023, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM EDT
Category: HOT TOPIC Conversations
How It Started vs. How It's Going: California's Journey With Income-Graduated Fixed ChargesDATE / TIME: Thursday, October 19, 2023 from 12:30 to 1:30 pm ET | 9:30 am to 10:30 am PT
California is in the middle of a regulatory proceeding to lower volumetric electricity rates and replace the revenue with income-graduated fixed charges. The idea was inspired in part by a 2021 UC Berkeley Energy Institute study that found the current rate structures of the investor-owned utilities have rates that are at least double the utility's avoided cost. A successor study released in 2022 found that the current rate structure places a disproportionate burden of paying for fixed costs and climate policies on low-income households, and that the high rates are likely to undermine efforts to decarbonize homes and personal transportation. Income-graduated fixed charges are not the only way to address these problems, but they are the route that the California legislature has chosen. Come to this session to learn more about California's journey with income-graduated fixed charges, presented by Severin Borenstein, Faculty Director of the Energy Institute at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. Click Here to Register
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About the Retail Pricing Interest Group
The PLMA Retail Pricing Interest Group seeks to examine a variety of demand response, energy efficiency, and other system retail pricing rates and programs, independent of any specific technology or solution. It will collect and selectively share summaries, excerpts, and/or full text from published, and not-so-public documentation, including utility pilots and program evaluations, plus reports and white papers that cover rates/program evaluations, program design concepts, market assessments, savings potential, and more.
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HOT TOPICS are all about engaging PLMA member practitioners in conversations about important current issues affecting dynamic load management, including demand response, and distributed energy resources. Tune in for an online conversation and chat with the PLMA Interest Groups. Join us to participate, learn, or just listen. You’ll gather key insights and ideas from across the PLMA membership.
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