LEFT IN THE DARK: How the Alabama Public Service Commission Makes Customers Pay Billions of Dollars for Alabama Power Investments without Any Meaningful Public Review or Involvement (pdf) By David Schlissel, Director of Resource Planning Analysis, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis
Report: Weak PSC oversight benefits Alabama Power at customers’ expense (pdf).
The Alabama Public Service Commission is a laggard both regionally and nationally in its outdated insistence on conducting the rate-paying public’s business in private. The commission’s secrecy is especially notable in how it shields its integrated resource plan analyses, or IRPs, from public view, as we document in detail in a report we published today […]
Billions of Dollars in Alabama Power Investment Decisions Occur in Private; Customers Have Little Access to Decision-Making Process; Policies Are Outdated Compared to Other States’ CLEVELAND, Feb, 26, 2015 (IEEFA) – A study published today by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis shows the Alabama Public Service Commission conducting much of its most important oversight […]
LEFT IN THE DARK: How the Alabama Public Service Commission Makes Customers Pay Billions of Dollars for Alabama Power Investments without Any Meaningful Public Review or Involvement (pdf) By David Schlissel, Director of Resource Planning Analysis, Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis
NEW YORK, NY — “In Alabama, Terry Dunn, a Republican member of the Alabama Public Service Commission, wants Alabama Power to undergo a full financial review soon to determine what rates are fairest to consumers and the company, with another complete review at least once every six years to follow. ‘It’s not only the thing […]
BIRMINGHAM, AL — “Titled ‘Public Utility Regulation without the Public: the Alabama Public Service Commission and Alabama Power,’ the report was authored by David Schlissel and Anna Sommer of the Institute for Energy Economics & Financial Analysis, based in Massachusetts. Schlissel has worked in the field of utility regulation for 40 years and has testified […]
Report: Weak PSC oversight benefits Alabama Power at customers’ expense (pdf).
Alabama PSC Needs More Sunlight in Rate Decisions
By Doing Business in Secret and Thwarting a Healthy Public Dialogue, Officials Are Keeping Ratepayers in the Dark
Last month, the Georgetown, Texas, city council signed contracts that will provide power to homes and businesses 100 percent through solar and wind energy beginning in 2017. As the city’s mayor noted, Georgetown had not been hijacked by “environmental zealots”; the switch to renewable energy was “chiefly a business decision based on cost and price […]