Evaluating utility business models, market designs, policies, and regulations within the energy system
Ratemaking & Evaluation
We explore innovative rate designs and regulatory models to better understand how they affect utility financial health and customer consumption patterns and bills.
Retail electricity rate design provides the price signal for customer consumption and utility investment decisions in energy efficiency, load flexibility, distributed generation, and electrification. Rate design also forms the basis for how utilities recover their costs, thereby impacting the financial health of utilities and the distribution of utility system costs among customers. EMP’s research on emerging issues and rate structures evaluates impacts across a wide range of affected stakeholders and informs ongoing retail electricity rate reforms.
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Recent Publications
Hledik, Ryan, Sanem Sergici, Sai Shetty, and Peter Cappers."Deliberate Design: Creating Electricity Rates with Purpose."
(2025).
Kahn-Lang, Jenya, Yuqi Zhu, Karen Palmer, and Peter Cappers."Different Prices for Difference Slices: A Meta-analysis of Time-based Electricity Rates."TBD
(2025).
Satchwell, Andrew, Natalie Mims Frick, Peter Cappers, Sanem Sergici, Ryan Hledik, Goksin Kavlak, and Glenda Oskar."Electricity Rate Designs for Large Loads: Evolving Practices and Opportunities."
(2025).
Satchwell, Andrew, Elaine Hale, Christina E Simeone, and Samanvitha Murthy."Research Needs and New Capabilities for Retail Electricity Rate Analysis."
(2025).
Forrester, Sydney, Andrew Satchwell, Galen L Barbose, Evan Cappers, Cesca Miller, and Andrew Alberg."Retail Electricity Price and Cost Trends: 2024 Update."
(2024).
Miller, Cesca, Andrew Satchwell, and Jenya Kahn-Lang."The Customer Bill Impacts of Efficient Building Electrification."2024 ACEEE Summer Study on Energy Efficiency in Buildings
(2024).
Kahn-Lang, Jenya, Cesca Miller, Andrew Satchwell, and Elaina Present."Building efficiency, electrification, and distributed solar PV bill savings under time-based retail rate designs."
(2024).
Cappers, Peter, Andrew Satchwell, Cameron Brooks, and Sam Kozel."A Snapshot of EV-Specific Rate Designs Among U.S. Investor-Owned Electric Utilities."
(2023).
