Areas of Expertise:

Clean Energy, Demand Side Management, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Environment, Environmental Policy, Innovation, Power Sector, Regulation, Renewables, Smart Grid, Solar, Transmission

John Finnigan is the senior regulatory attorney for EDF’s US Climate and Energy Program, representing EDF before state public utility commissions on smart grid deployments and energy efficiency matters.

Recent Posts by John Finnigan

• Changing Times for Electric Utilities

Recent Comments by John Finnigan

• "I believe more states will investigate the possibility of replacing net metering with a "value of solar" tariff which quantifies the costs and benefit"
  Changing Times for Electric Utilities
• "I agree that storage would be a game-changer for distributed generation.  Tesla's announcement of a $5 billion dollar battery factory may be an indica"
  Changing Times for Electric Utilities
• "One measure of the fairness of a rate plan, such as net metering, is whether it imposes unreasonable cost shifts on other customers."
  Changing Times for Electric Utilities
• "My thought was that Duke's merchant business and their utility business face the same type of challenge - how can they recover their operating costs a"
  Changing Times for Electric Utilities
• "The rates a utility customer pays are based on the average cost for the utility to serve an average customer over the course of the year.  Net meterin"
  Changing Times for Electric Utilities
• "I agree that regulators should identify the benefits that distributed generation brings to the grid,  and pay the DG owners for those benefits.  By th"
  Changing Times for Electric Utilities
• "At Environmental Defense Fund, we expect to see the following changes to t"
  How Do Utilities Survive And Thrive With Distributed Generation?