Program Level: The program is classified as basic and recommended to new personnel working in the regulatory policy community.
Topics to be covered
- Regulatory, consumer, and industry perspectives on ratemaking
- Economic basis for regulation
- Legal basis for regulation
- Prefiling briefing for the mock rate case
- Basics of utility rate setting
- Choosing the test year
- Developing the rate base
- Getting started on the mock rate case
- Balance sheets and income statements
- Expenses, depreciation, and taxes
- Cost-adjustment mechanisms
- Corporate finance and cost of capital
- Ratemaking issues for energy utilities
- Cost allocation and rate design
- Summation panel for the case
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