The Commissioner’s Question: Why not more Debt? By Branko Terzic Photo by ColiN00B [Fiction] Commissioner Throckmorton C. Cummings, a newly appointed Public Service Commission…
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The Commissioner’s Question: A Guaranteed Return? Branko Terzic [Fiction] Commissioner Throckmorton C. Cummings, a newly appointed Public Service Commission (PSC) member, was reviewing a thousand pages of pre-filed testimony and exhibits in the most…
The Commissioner’s Question: Who paid? Branko Terzic Photo by Aldward Castillo [Fiction] The newly appointed Public Service Commission (PSC) member Commissioner Throckmorton C. Cummings was…
Challenges in Performance Based Rates Branko Terzic Photo by Heri Susilo The privatization of public utilities in the United Kingdom in the 1990’s was accompanied…
Optimum Depreciation Management Branko Terzic A depreciation study done every four years by an independent expert is not the optimum strategy for the management of…
One View of Primary Drivers of Price Changes Branko Terzic Adobe Stock In an earlier commentary, I explained how various electric utility costs were eventually…
Electric Rate Increases: Cause and Effect Branko Terzic The major newspapers and media have turned their attention to electric utility rate increases as a major…
Travellers & Tinkers, CC BY-SA 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons An Example of the Two Step in M&A By Branko Terzic The Minnesota Public Utilities Commission (MPUC) voted…
What causes electric rate increases? Branko Terzic Photo by Adi Rahman The answer to this seemingly simple question involves some moving parts and is not…
Capital Issue: Return of and Return On By Branko Terzic Photo by sanjoy saha An interesting question was asked after my keynote speech titled “Getting…