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Cost
Recovery and the Smart Grid: How the Maryland PSC's Decision
Could Change the Way Utilities Recoup Investments
A
web conference, Friday, September 17, 2010, 1:00 PM - 2:30
PM Eastern
Register Now!
The
Maryland Public Service Commission recently approved Baltimore
Gas & Electric's (BGE) revised smart grid plan--with
conditions disallowing any surcharge for cost recovery.
BGE had described the use of the surcharge as a deal-breaker
but later acquiesced.
Regulators
had the utility over a barrel: If BGE did not accept traditional
base-rate cases for AMI cost recovery, it could have lost
the $200 million DOE smart-grid investment grant that supports
its initiative to install two million smart meters over
the next five years.
Even
though the BGE plan was partially funded by government stimulus
money, the PSC concluded that the financial risk to the
utility's customers from the surcharge was too great.
Reactions
to the decisions coming out of Maryland have been mixed.
Some praised the regulator's June rejection of BGE's smart-grid
plan--which led to DOE threatening to take back the giant
grant it awarded the utility last fall--saying the rejection
expresses the PSC's concern over how utilities are spending
ratepayers' money.
But
for those who support the growth of the smart grid, the
recent rulings in Maryland could raise serious doubts about
its future in the U.S.
Join
Smart Grid Today for its latest web conference "Cost
Recovery and the Smart Grid: How the Maryland PSC's Decision
Could Change the Way Utilities Recoup Investments"
on Friday, September 17, 2010. Listen as our panel of experts
offers their interpretation of the Maryland PSC's decision
and helps you better understand how it could affect the
way you recoup the costs associated with smart-grid deployment.
Whether
you're a regulator, a utility executive, technology vendor
or anyone in a related business who has a vested interest
in the growth of smart-grid technology and its associated
costs, this is one web conference you can't afford to miss.
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of all, you and your entire team can participate in this
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