Daily edition | July 23, 2019 Note from the editor Rising demand for energy efficiency and distributed energy resources is straining the traditional cost-of-service utility business model. Industry stakeholders across the country are working to shift the way utilities are compensated for their services through performance-based ratemaking — or components of that model.
Today we're publishing the first of a two-part installment on the challenges and triumphs of state-led performance-based ratemaking.
What aspects of performance-based ratemaking do you think are effective and what methods have you seen fall short? As always, we'd love to hear from you.
Thank you for reading.
 Catherine Morehouse
Associate Editor, Utility Dive
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