Full Title: Decoupling Design: Customizing Revenue Regulation to Your State’s Priorities.
Author(s): Migden-Ostrander, J., and Sedano, R.
Publisher(s): Regulatory Assistance Project
Publication Date: November 1, 2016
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Description (excerpt):
Many states have adopted utility “decoupling,” or revenue regulation, to address the impacts on utilities’ revenues from factors that affect their sales levels. Originally, decoupling was conceived as a way to make utilities indifferent to annual sales volume and to address the net revenue losses associated with energy efficiency programs. More recently, it has been considered as one of many tools to mitigate revenue shortfalls from deployment of all distributed energy resources (DER).