November 2014

Greentech | What Does New York’s ‘Energy Vision’ Mean for Utility Jurisdiction and Regulators?

“We need a bit more evolution until we know how those transactions will get structured,” said Richard Miller (’87) of ConEd about the proposed Distributed System Platform Providers at a recent Guarini Center event sponsored by Latham & Watkins LLP. READ MORE

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Performance-Based Regulation to Improve Upstream Energy Efficiency

Traditional utility regulation provides inadequate incentives for electric utilities to invest in technologies that reduce network energy losses. This article examines how alternative regulatory designs influence such investments, and simulates the procurement and performance of distribution transformers under differing regulatory scenarios, to demonstrate the enormous potential benefits of a performance-based regulation scheme that targets network losses. Author: Benjamin Mandel Published in: The Electricity

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Further delay in implementing emissions cuts leaves planet “depending on luck” says Princeton professor – NYU law visiting professor and author of new IPCC report

For Immediate Release November 4, 2014 NEW YORK- Noted climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, a principal author of a just-released Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report and a professor at Princeton and NYU Law visiting professor, said that further delay in reaching an international agreement to cut global greenhouse gas emissions would amount to a highly

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