Dr. Mark Newton Lowry, President of PEG Research,spoke on May 31st at the Pennsylvania Bar Institute's 2019 Public Utility Conference in Harrisburg. He was a panelist on the topic of Alternative Rate Making: Structure and Design. His focus was on multi-year rate plans and his presentation can be found here . Other panelists spoke on Performance Based Rate Making and Alternative Rate Making in New York. Recent legislation permits a wider range of Altreg options in the Keystone State. Dr. Lowry was an assistant professor of applied economics for several years at the main campus of the Pennsylvania State University.