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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio—More than 2 million FirstEnergy customers will no longer have to pay a much-scrutinized “decoupling” fee, under a request by the company approved by state utility regulators on Tuesday ...

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 ...

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 ...

Revenue decoupling (RD) is a regulatory mechanism that allows adjustments of retail electricity rates for the regulated utility to recover its required revenue despite fluctuations in its sales volume ...

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 ...