Interest in PBR and Altreg Continues in 2024

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Performance-based Ratemaking ("PBR") and other alternatives to traditional ratemaking (collectively called "Altreg") have continued to be a hot topic at courses and conferences about energy utility regulation this year. Last March, PEG president Mark Newton Lowry gave a lecture on PBR at an energy law course of the Osgoode Hall Law School of York University in Toronto. In April, he discussed Canadian PBR at a SURFA conference in Richmond, VA. In August, he lectured on Altreg at the Michigan State University IPU Fundamentals Course. In September, Dr. Lowry gave a talk on multiyear rate plans to a DOE Energy Security and Grid Reliance Cohort. In October, he gave a presentation on PBR at the Wisconsin Public Utilities Institute and conducted a three-day seminar on PBR for NARUC's Regulatory Training Initiative. In December, he discussed PBR at an EUCI conference on utility rate design.