Under its Clean Energy Standard, New York established a ZEC program for struggling nuclear plants based on the difference between the social cost of carbon and existing electricity prices.
PJM has proposed to study the effects of a carbon price on wholesale markets in tandem with the carbon pricing discussion being advanced by PJM members in stakeholder processes.
Proposes a novel replacement for eminent domain, the Special-Purpose Development Corporation.
Provides several innovative land-assembly alternatives to the traditional eminent domain model, including land assembly districts, SPDCs, transmission corridor districts, and equity model limited liability corporations.
Reviewed alternate compensation methods for landowners, including damage payments, annual per-pole payments, and collective bargaining through landowner’s associations.
Landowner Compensation in Transmission Siting for Renewable Energy Facilities and From the Ground Up: Addressing Key Community Concerns in Clean Energy Transmission
Allowing anonymized customer data sharing where information is from at least 15 customers and no single customer’s load accounts for more than 15% of the total.
Established fair information practice requirements, including a consumer right of access and control, data minimization obligations, use and disclosure limitations, and data quality and integrity requirements.
Directed the Utah Public Service Commission to authorize certain funds for “innovative utility programs” designed to investigate, among other options, energy storage technology.
Incentivizes utilities to invest in infrastructure that enables renewable generation by allowing utilities to place those costs into customer rates outside of a general rate case.