Advanced Rate Design + Cost of Service
Cost modeling and rate design can be a complex space with many diverse perspectives supporting different approaches.
Current Energy Group conducts objective cost and rate analysis with the aim to minimize power system costs while achieving public policy goals.
Utility energy systems serve a vast number and variety of customers with predominantly shared resources to deliver energy services. An even greater number of options exist for assigning cost responsibility and recovering costs from those customers for shared resources. While commonly accepted standards have existed for many years, the power system and associated technologies are changing in ways that require rethinking traditional rates and programs to minimize future costs for ratepayers.
Your Consulting Partner
Ron Nelson
Partner
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Andy Eiden
Senior Manager
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Jeff Zethmayr
Senior Consultant
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Dan Cassara
Consultant
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Justin Brant
Senior Manager
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The Current Energy Group Approach
- Ron has experience in more than 30 states through 80 proceedings.
- Ron’s testimonies have led to innovative critical peak pricing and other rate designs, flexible connection requirements, and modern cost allocation approaches.
Aligning cost allocation and rate design with the changing needs of the energy sector is critical to accelerating the energy transition, while protecting consumers from inflating costs of energy. Current Energy Group implements modern cost of service principles, reflecting temporal cost analysis and changing technological capabilities, to adapt aging utility models to the realities of today’s energy sector.
Current Energy Group is at the forefront of modern rate design, analyzing pricing incentives, the value of grid services, and rate impacts to design fair, economic rates that advance the energy transition. CEG’s experience spans across broad rate design development including traditional volumetric, time-of-use, electric vehicle, flexible connections, and load management tariffs that align customer incentives with grid needs.
Related Perspectives
Direct Testimony of Ron Nelson on behalf of the Office of Consumer Services
The testimony addresses RMP’s Cost of Service Study, rate spread, rate design,...
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Direct Testimony of Ron Nelson before the North Carolina Utilities Commission
The testimony addresses performance incentives, metrics, the proposed decoupling mechanism, C&I rate...
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