Electricity
States Move Swiftly on Performance-Based Regulation to Achieve Policy Priorities
This article examines some of the emerging trends in performance-based regulation — and ways that states now implementing or considering PBR can learn from the early adopters.
What Do We Know about Utility Shutoffs of Vulnerable Families during COVID-19?
As households across the United States began to feel the multifaceted impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, thousands of grassroots organizers rallied for a moratorium that would protect vulnerable customers facing disconnections from their utility. Disconnecting households for unpaid energy bills would have meant the loss of critical energy services…
Is Georgia Power’s New Plan Enough to Reach Net Zero by 2050?
Georgia Power Company, a subsidiary of utility giant Southern Company, proposed a 20-year energy plan with state regulators in December 2021.
Reality Check: Red-State Voters Want Clean Energy Too. Just Ask Nebraska
Nebraska public officials adopted net-zero carbon goals across the electricity sector.
Businesses Taking Real Action Is Essential to a Zero-Carbon Future
Two years into this decisive decade for climate action, when we must halve global carbon emissions, we have reasons to feel hopeful about the state of climate-related innovation and action.
