Decoupling: The Key to Incenting Electric Utilities to Promote Energy Efficiency

What is Utility Decoupling? Decoupling allows a utility to separate its regulated revenue from changes in energy sales. Thus, it addresses a potential disincentive to promote energy efficiency. In so doing, decoupling eliminates a critical barrier to increased utility-sponsored investment in cost-effective energy efficiency measures and other clean energy resources by, in effect, mitigating the...