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NRRI is recruiting experts and other staff for
Eastern Interconnection States’
Planning Council

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Director's Monthly Essays on Regulatory Quality
The Synthesizing Regulator
Five Minds for the Future: Part I (The Disciplined Mind)
Pharmacies and Regulatory Conferences: Do They Have Anything in Common? Can Socrates Help?
Interconnection Animus: The Readers React
Interconnection Animus: Do Regulatory Procedures Create a “Tragedy of the Commons”?
Regulatory Multitasking: Does It Do Long-Term Damage?
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New from NRRI
Renewable Energy Prices in State-Level Feed-in Tariffs: Federal Law Constraints & Possible Solutions
How to Induce Customers to Consume Energy Efficiently: Rate Design Options and Methods
State High Cost Funds: Purposes, Design, and Evaluation
Serving the "Public Interest" - Traditional vs Expansive Utility Regulation
Are Utility Workforces Prepared for New Demands? Recommendations for State Commission Inquiries
How to Determine the Effectiveness of Energy Assistance, and Why It’s Important
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New Information for the Regulatory Community


Our mission: By creating new knowledge and democratizing existing knowledge, we seek to empower utility regulators to make public interest decisions of the highest possible quality.

The matrix: The matrix below displays the range of services NRRI will perform for the regulatory community. "Mouse over" any cell under the 5 industry subject areas electricity, gas, telecommunications, water and multi-utility to obtain a quick view of the content within and click to access the content.

 
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“... [T]he Commission has claimed to be the representative of the public interest. This role does not permit it to act as an umpire blandly calling balls and strikes for adversaries appearing before it; the right of the public must receive active and affirmative protection at the hands of the Commission.”

Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference v. FPC, 354 F.2d 608, 620 (2d Cir. 1965) (referring to the Federal Power Commission), cert. denied sub nom., Consolidated Edison Co. v. Scenic Hudson Preservation Conference, 384 U.S. 941 (1966).

 
NRRI Recruitment
  1. Energy Efficiency, Renewable Energy, Rate Design, Smart Grid. NRRI is seeking an energy policy professional with top-flight analytical, writing, presentational and leadership skills, to stimulate and advise the regulatory community on policy challenges arising from climate change, with an emphasis on energy efficiency, renewable energy, rate design and the grid infrastructure necessary to support these efforts. Learn more . . .
  2. Telecommunications. NRRI is seeking a telecommunications policy professional with top-flight analytical, writing and presentational skills to lead the regulatory community in solving policy challenges in the telecommunications field. Learn more . . .
  3. Knowledge Center Manager. NRRI seeks a knowledge center manager with expertise in content management to help launch a collaborative problem-solving online “meeting space” for state regulators and their staffs. Learn more . . .
  4. Electricity Expert. NRRI's mission is to provide state utility commissions with research services necessary to achieve utility regulation of the highest possible quality. This mission requires four types of work: (a) identifying unsolved regulatory challenges, (b) creating the new knowledge necessary to meet those challenges, (c) democratizing access to existing knowledge, and (d) stimulating discussion on principles of high quality regulation. Learn more . . .
 
 


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NRRI Seminars

“Sanctity of Contract” Trumps
 “Public Interest” Intervention:
The Supreme Court Revisits
Mobile-Sierra—Again


Teleseminar

Monday, March 15, 2010
3-4:30 p.m. Eastern Time

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The Fundamentals of Electricity Law,
Energy Efficiency,
Renewable Energy and Smart Grid


March 17-19, 2010

Columbia, SC

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Electricity Law:
Current Topics 2010


April 22-23, 2010

Washington, DC

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Renewable Energy Pricing in State-Level
Feed-In Tariffs: Federal Law
Limitations and Possible Solutions


Teleseminar

Tuesday, March 23, 2010
2-3:30 p.m. Eastern Time

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Teleseminar Audio CDs
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The Expanding Universe of Utility
Regulation: “Public Interest” and
the Elements of Authority
Aired: 2/25/10

How to Persuade Customers to Use
Energy More Efficiently: The Pros
and Cons of Potential Rate Design
Options
Aired: 2/11/10

Making the High Cost Fund Decision:
How to Assess Your State’s Needs

Aired: 1/27/10

Understanding FERC Transmission
Incentives: What to Know Before
You Apply or Intervene
 Aired: 1/21/10

A New Era in ILEC Transfers: How
to Safeguard Wireline Telecom Service

Aired: 12/10/09

The Two Sides of Cost Trackers:
Why Regulators Must Consider Both
Teleseminar
 Aired: 10/27/09

“Postage Stamp” Pricing Meets
Judge Posner—and Loses: Will We
Ever Agree on Transmission Cost
Allocation?
Aired: 10/1/09

Electric Resource Adequacy:
The D.C. Circuit Rejects Connecticut's
Challenge to FERC Now Who's In
Charge?
Aired: 7/16/09

Certification Requirements as a
Path to Improve Small Water Utility
Operations: Options for State
Commissions


Gas Supply Planning and
Procurement: A Comprehensive
Regulatory Approach



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