The single most important policy change needed to promote broad-based, California-style energy efficiency is to "decouple" utility profits from sales -- to allow utilities to profit from energy ...

CARSON CITY — A proposed bill draft that would give state utility regulators the authority to “decouple” a utility’s recovery of costs from the sale of electricity failed to get a favorable ...

I meant last week to note the extremely promising fact that Dems are talking about using the stimulus to funnel substantial money to states for energy efficiency projects — and tying that money to ...

The Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) has published the White Paper "Decoupling Utility Profits from Sales: Issues for the Photovoltaic Industry," providing valuable insight into a regulatory ...

PITTSFIELD — As utility rates continue to strain state businesses, the Berkshire Chamber of Commerce will meet with representatives of Western Massachusetts Electric Co. and the attorney general's ...

An odd couple has united to support decoupling. The Natural Resource Defense Council advocates energy conservation. The American Gas Association promotes the use of natural gas. Yet the two have ...

Energy efficiency was a big part of Barack Obama's environmental platform, and among the promises he made on the campaign trail was a pledge to require states to provide incentives for utilities to ...

A seemingly innocuous provision in H.B. 6, an Ohio energy law dogged by claims of bribery, could bring hundreds of millions of dollars to one of the state’s largest utility companies. Is it a “smoking ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

A century ago, society scratched its head and figured out that the best and fastest way to blanket the country with electric power was by giving utility companies a monopoly and then regulating them ...

Particularly in electricity markets, revenue decoupling has started to be used as a price adjustment mechanism that disentangles the effect of increased sales volume to a utility’s ability to recover ...