Panelists discussed how proactive climate resilience planning is required under public utility law and tort law.
Michael Panfil, Romany Webb and OthersMarch 31, 2021
In the wake of the tragic February 2021 Texas winter storm and resulting power outages, this opinion piece argues that state regulators should require the electric industry to recognize the undeniable: climate change is here and it needs to be factored into their planning and decision making.
Romany Webb and Michael PanfilFebruary 23, 2021
This policy brief summarizes a report finding that proactive climate resilience planning by electric utilities is required under public utility law and tort law.
Romany Webb, Michael Panfil and Sarah LadinDecember 3, 2020
This report finds that proactive climate resilience planning by electric utilities is required under public utility law and tort law. An updated version was published as a journal article in the Environmental Law Review in October 2021.
Romany Webb, Michael Panfil and Sarah LadinDecember 3, 2020
This blog summarizes a report finding that proactive climate resilience planning by electric utilities is required under public utility law and tort law.
Michael Panfil, Sarah Ladin and Romany WebbDecember 3, 2020
These comments to the Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and Public Utilities Regulatory Authority discuss their proposed distributed energy resource value categories, encouraging the agencies to include electricity system resilience and community resilience in their list of value categories.
Justin GundlachAugust 21, 2019
This book chapter discusses specific policy changes to electric power mandates, subsidies, and retail customer charges that can help facilitate the transition to deep decarbonization of the power sector.
Jim RossiFebruary 21, 2019
This article examines how the definitions of resilience adopted by the public health and electricity communities can, but do not necessarily, converge in responses to electricity outages so severe that they affect the operation of critical infrastructure, such as wastewater treatment and drinking water facilities, hospitals, and cooling centers. The…
Justin GundlachFebruary 1, 2018
This article identifies tools available to the government ex ante that will preserve regulatory flexibility in the future by forestalling regulatory takings claims and blunt the fairness concerns that fuel takings arguments, and argues for their adoption in the context of natural gas regulation.
Christopher Serkin and Michael VandenberghAugust 22, 2017