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Director's Monthly Essays on Regulatory Quality
Five Minds for the Future: Part I (The Disciplined Mind)
Pharmacies and Regulatory Conferences: Do They Have Anything in Common? Can Socrates Help?
Interconnection Animus: The Readers React
Interconnection Animus: Do Regulatory Procedures Create a “Tragedy of the Commons”?
Regulatory Multitasking: Does It Do Long-Term Damage?
Is Learning to Regulate Like Learning to Cook?
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New from NRRI
Renewable Energy Prices in State-Level Feed-in Tariffs: Federal Law Constraints & Possible Solutions
How to Induce Customers to Consume Energy Efficiently: Rate Design Options and Methods
State High Cost Funds: Purposes, Design, and Evaluation
Serving the "Public Interest" - Traditional vs Expansive Utility Regulation
Are Utility Workforces Prepared for New Demands? Recommendations for State Commission Inquiries
How to Determine the Effectiveness of Energy Assistance, and Why It’s Important
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New Information for the Regulatory Community


Our mission: By creating new knowledge and democratizing existing knowledge, we seek to empower utility regulators to make public interest decisions of the highest possible quality.

The matrix: The matrix below displays the range of services NRRI will perform for the regulatory community. "Mouse over" any cell under the 5 industry subject areas electricity, gas, telecommunications, water and multi-utility to obtain a quick view of the content within and click to access the content.

 
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“... [T]he Commission has claimed to be the representative of the public interest. This role does not permit it to act as an umpire blandly calling balls and strikes for adversaries appearing before it; the right of the public must receive active and affirmative protection at the hands of the Commission.”

Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. FPC, 354 F.2d 608, 620 (2d Cir. 1965) (referring to the Federal Power Commission), cert. denied sub nom., Consolidated Edison Co. v. Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, 384 U.S. 941 (1966).

 
 


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NRRI Seminars

NARUC Winter Committee Meetings

February 14-17, 2010

Renaissance Washington • Washington, DC

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How to Persuade Customers to
Use Energy More Efficiently:
The Pros and Cons of Potential
Rate Design Options
 

Teleseminar

February 11, 2010
2-3:30p.m. (ET)

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Making the High Cost Fund Decision:
How to Assess Your State’s Needs
 

Teleseminar

Held: January 27, 2010

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Understanding FERC Transmission
Incentives: What to Know Before
You Apply or Intervene
 

Teleseminar

Held: January 21, 2010

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A New Era in ILEC Transfers:
How to Safeguard Wireline
Telecom Service


Teleseminar

Held: December 10th, 2009

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The Two Sides of Cost Trackers:
Why Regulators Must Consider Both

Teleseminar

Held: October 27, 2009

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 “Postage Stamp” Pricing Meets
Judge Posner—and Loses:
Will We Ever Agree on
Transmission Cost Allocation?


Teleseminar

Held: October 1, 2009

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Certification Requirements as a
Path to Improve Small Water Utility
Operations: Options for State
Commissions

Teleseminar

Recording available here

Gas Supply Planning and
Procurement: A Comprehensive
Regulatory Approach

Teleseminar

Recording available here

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