Selected Publications & Testimony

• Overview of Performance-Based Ratemaking and Related Regulatory Incentives, NRRI, February 2010

• Clean Energy Scenario Planning: Thoughts on Creating a Framework, for the Hawaii PUC, November 2009

• A Charge to Regulators Regarding Capital Cost Reduction Mechanisms, NARUC Electricity Committee, July 2009

• A Rate Design to Increase Efficiency and Reduce Revenue Requirement, The Electricity Journal, May 2009

• Energy Cost Adjustment Mechanisms, Technical Workshop, Public Service Commission of Utah, May 2009

• Aligning a Utility’s Interests with the Public Interest in Cost-Effective Purchased Power Transactions,  NRRI, April 2009

• Feed-in Tariffs: Best Design – Focusing Hawaii’s Investigation, December 2008

• Return on Equity – Focus on Effective Regulation, NARUC Staff Subcommittee on Electricity, November 2008

• Revenue Neutral Energy Efficiency Feebate, Ohio Public Utility Commission Workshop, September 2008

• Regulatory Initiatives to Encourage Energy Efficiency, National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, July 2008

• FERC’s NOPR on Wholesale Competition in Regions with Organized Electric Markets, An NRRI Teleseminar, March 2008

• Mitigating “Mandated” Rate Hikes, Public Utility Fortnightly, May 2007

• Comments on Mitigating Electric Price Increases, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, M-00061957, June 2006

• PA PUC Working Group on Demand-Side Resources; Proposed Evaluation Methodology, March 2004 and April 2004

• The Risk-Reward Disconnection, Electric Power 2002, March 2002

• Energy Without Meters, A More Marketable Energy Solution, ELC White Paper, Spring 2001

• Can Energy and Energy Efficiency Services be Profitably Sold Together?, Infocast, Identifying Retail Energy Customers, October 1999

• Mending the Disconnections Between Retail and Wholesale Competitive Electric Markets, Public Utility Fortnightly, September 15, 1999

• PECO Energy Restructuring Case, P-00971265 and R-00973953, Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, June 1997 and November 1997

• Program Evaluation: A Helping Hand – Low-Income Water Conservation Program, Philadelphia Suburban Water, Summer 1996

• Cost Allocation for Electric Utility Conservation and Load Management Programs, NARUC Committee on Energy Conservation. Co-author, Feb 1993

• A Bridge Between Electric and Gas IRP - Clean Air Act Compliance, NARUC 4th National Conference on IRP, Sept 1992

• End-Use Fuel Switching: Is It Fair? Yes, It Is!, The Electricity Journal, June 1992

• A Systematic Approach to Gas Integrated Resource Planning, NARUC 3rd National Conference on IRP, April 1991

• Acid Rain Solutions - A State Regulator's View, A Utility Forum on Least Cost Options, May 1990

• Diversified Menus - Choosing the Quality of  Electric Service, Electric Potential, May 1989

• Response to Proposed Gas Transportation Service Tariff, Philadelphia Gas Commission, May 1989

• Competitive Bidding: To Be or Monopsony? That is the Question, Electric Potential, May - June 1988

• The Nuclear Debate: Move It Below the Line, Electric Potential, March-April 1988

• Conservation: Standard Analysis Vs Analytical Standards, Electric Potential, September-October 1987

• Regulatory Outs and Guaranteed Recovery of Cost: How Important are They, Electric Potential, June-August 1987

• The Bottom Line is Not the Bottom Line, Electric Potential, March-April 1987

• Can Peak Power be Deregulated, Electric Potential,  January-February 1987

• Rate Shock: Taming the Demon, Electric Potential, September-October 1986

• Rate Shock: Understanding the Specter, Electric Potential, July-August 1986

• Is the No Losers Test a Loser?, Electric Potential, May-June 1986

• A Message to FERC: An Examination of Wheeling Rates, Electric Potential, Jan-Feb 1986

• Comments on Infrastructure Financing to the United States Senate Committee on the Budget, on behalf of the City of Philadelphia. Jan. 1986

• The Missing Link: The Importance of Pricing of Electric Utility Services, Electric Potential, November-December 1985

• Varied Perceptions of Risk: A Classical Review of Current Events in the Electric Utility Industry, Electric Potential, Sept-Oct 1985

• Generic Investigation of Cogeneration and Small Power Production, Connecticut Department of Public Utility Control, 85-04-16, July 1985

• Application of Philadelphia Electric Company for an Employment and Economic Recovery Rider (Staff Comments), R-832357. PA PUC, May 1983

• Generic Gas Cost Rate Investigation, M-78050055, D-79S00192. Pennsylvania Public Utility Commission, March 1983

• The Three Mile Island Accident: A Ratemaking Perspective, Electric Ratemaking, August 1982, co-author, D. Rolka

• The Energy Price Adjustment Clause: An Incentive for Cost Effectiveness, Electric Ratemaking, February 1982

• Rate Incentive Provisions: A Framework of Analysis and Survey of Activities, NRRI, co-author, W. Pollard et al., November 1981

• Decommissioning: A State Perspective, Decontamination and Decommissioning of Nuclear Facilities, American Nuclear Society, Sept 1979

• Return on Effectiveness, Sixth Energy Technology Conference, April 1979; also EPRI Workshop, February 1979