June 2018, Vol. 245, No. 6
Features
Liberty Utilities Sees Potential Benefit in Decoupling
Spotlight on Utilities By Michael Reed, Managing Editor Whenever the topic of "decoupling" is mentioned concerning natural gas distribution utilities, confusion, along with a fair amount of debate, is bound to follow. That’s because, traditionally, rates for business and residential customers are decided based on a particular company’s revenues and profits. Decoupling, by definition, would eliminate this process, replacing it with another approach such as "revenue-per-customer" formula that requires occasional adjustments, based on sales. In New Hampshire, the state Public Utilities Commission (PUC) ruled in late April it would allow monthly adjustments to Li

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