- "Planning for the Future"
The Electricity Journal, Volume 22, Issue 5, June 2009, pages 45-53.
This article briefly recaps the evolution of Integrated Resource Planning (IRP) in the U.S. and describes four basic changes to IRP needed to make it useful for the 21st century - "Rate
Impacts and Key Design Elements of Gas and Electric Utility Decoupling:
A Comprehensive Review"
The Electricity Journal, Volume 22, Issue 8, October 2009, pages 65-71.
This article summarizes the results of a study examining the features and rate impacts of decoupling mechanisms currently in effect for U.S. electric and natural gas utilities. - "The Benefits of Goal-Based Planning in
Times of Uncertainty" (pdf, 12
pages)
July 2009
This unpublished article discusses the benefits of complementing our current practice of making utility resource decisions based on forecasts with a practice of using specific goals to guide our choices, with the primary criteria being whether the plan will move us closer to the goal at an acceptable cost, rather than strictly whether – based on the forecasts – the plan should support the lowest cost utility service at a reasonable risk. - A Response to: "The State of U.S. Electricity
Restructuring" (pdf, 23 pages)
Original article appeared in The Electricity Journal, June 2002
This unpublished article, written as a response to an article describing how the U.S. could proceed with making competitive retail electric markets, answers the question “should we?” and assesses whether, if we followed the prescriptions of the article to implement such competitive retail markets, we would be happy with the result. - "A
Different Path to Electric Industry Restructuring" (pdf, 31 pages)
June 2001
Presented as "Creating a New Regulatory Framework: Workable Competition in the Electric Distribution Sector" at the 14th Annual Western Conference Advanced Workshop in Regulation and Competition Center for Research in Regulated Industries Rutgers University, - Direct
Testimony, Oregon Public Utility Commission Docket No. UE-88 Remand
(pdf, 50 pages)
February 2005
This testimony explained the regulatory framework and approaches to thinking about a retroactive review of choices made to handle the undepreciated investment cost of a nuclear power generating plant closed prematurely for economic reasons. - Direct Testimony, Oregon
Public Utility Commission Docket UE-115 (pdf, 27 pages)
November 2000
This testimony laid the regulatory policy foundation for Portland General Electric Company's response to Oregon's electricity market restructuring law.