National Academies Papers on the Cost of Carbon
A 2016 Assessment of Approach to Updating the Social Cost of Carbon, and a 2017 follow-up, Valuing Climate Damages: Updating Estimation of the Social Cost of Carbon Dioxide.
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Black Hills Energy Fixed Charge Requests
In 2018, the Colorado Public Utilities Commission rejected the Black Hills Energy request for a fixed charge increase from $16.50/month to $20.13/month and recommended lowering it to $8.77/month.
Connecticut’s Acceptable Components of Utility Fixed Charges
In 2015, Connecticut passed a law defining acceptable components of a utility fixed charge as the fixed costs, operations and maintenance expenses that are directly related to metering, billing, service connections and customer service.
Central Hudson 2017 Rate Settlement
In a 2018 settlement of Central Hudson's 2017 rate case, the utility's fixed charge will drop from $24/month in 2019 to $19.50/month in 2021.
Nix the Fix Fact Sheet
Indiana’s Citizen’s Action Coalition has launched a campaign against higher fixed charges in utility rates, producing a fact sheet documenting the adverse effects on equity, efficiency, and competitive markets posed by high fixed charges.
Fifty States Reports
Tracking, among other things, utility rate cases across the country to give a national snapshot of ratemaking trends.
Report, Pricing Do’s and Donts
Documents the impact of rate design on efficiency investments.
Findings of a 2016-2017 analysis of investor-owned utility proposals to increase mandatory fixed fees on residents
NRDC, NCLC, and Vote Solar researched the results of rate cases across the US in 2016 and 2017, finding a trend of utilities aggressively proposing fixed charge increases, which Public Service Commissions tended to fully reject or scale back.
Report, Recovery of Utility Fixed Costs
Surveyed the tensions between fixed and variable rates, as well as a variety of alternative rate structures, from the perspectives of utilities, consumer advocates, and environmentalists.
New York’s Community Risk and Resiliency Act of 2014
Requires the state to adopt official projections of future sea level rise, and it mandates that in many specified state programs, sea level rise and some other climate related events be considered.