PUBLICATIONS

EQ Research’s analysis of residential fixed charges. Residential Fixed Charges – Comparison of 171 Utilities as of May 21, 2026.… read more »

This issue brief examines the implications of the NC Senate Bill 730 requirement that disallows the retirement of coal and other large generators until a certificate of public convenience and necessity is issued for a new nuclear plant with at least 1,000 MW of capacity.… read more »

This Issue Brief examines how fuel costs have contributed to changing electricity rates for Duke Energy customers in North Carolina, with a focus on residential rates and the impacts of changing natural gas prices. The brief is an update of a previous publication from April 2024 that incorporates an additional two years of fuel cost and rates data, and provides an examination of what has changed since April 2024, including but not limited to the enactment of SB 266 in July 2025.… read more »

This 1-page brief compares the cost of electricity generated from competitively procured clean energy, natural gas, and coal in North Carolina over the past several years.… read more »

This report examines the risks and price impacts on Florida’s residential electricity consumers resulting from growth in liquified natural gas (LNG) exports from the U.S. It includes evaluations of the state’s reliance on natural gas for electricity generation, recent trends in forecasted natural gas use and costs, the impact of LNG export growth on natural gas prices and price volatility, and the resulting residential bill impacts for Florida consumers.… read more »

This brief examines the ROE request by Duke Energy in its recent NC rate cases compared to other recent ROE requests.

This brief analyzes the changes in rates for residential customers in the Virginia service territories of Dominion Energy Virginia and Appalachian Power Company between January 1, 2019 and April 1, 2025.… read more »

This report explores several aspects of the relationships between fuel costs and the electricity rates charged by Florida’s major investor-owned utilities (IOUs), with a specific focus on natural gas costs and residential rates. It includes evaluations of: (i) how fuel costs have varied over time, (ii) the relative role of fuel costs as a component of residential retail rates, (iii) the effects of fuel costs and other factors on customer rate volatility, and (iv) how different future scenarios of natural gas prices and natural gas generation reliance would affect fuel costs and customer rates.… read more »

If utilities perform well on outcomes set by the regulator, they should expect to earn returns over the base level return on equity (ROE); if they perform poorly, they should expect to earn no more than the base level ROE. Performance adjustments can be made using incentives or penalties. The level of incentives or penalties may or may not be equivalent or proportional depending on the framework design. This report is a non-exhaustive review of how some states and utilities have put PBR into practice, including states to watch in 2025.… read more »

This is an issue brief on Nevada Power Company’s 2025 residential demand charge proposal, approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada in September 2025.