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Stranded Costs And Grid Decarbonizaiton, Emily Hammond, Jim Rossi
Stranded Costs And Grid Decarbonizaiton, Emily Hammond, Jim Rossi
Brooklyn Law Review
Energy law is well equipped to facilitate the transition to a decarbonized grid. Over the past half century, energy law has endured many stranded cost experiments, each helping firms and customers adjust to a new normal. However, these past experiments have contributed to a myopic regulatory approach to past stranded cost recovery by: (1) endorsing a preference for addressing all stranded costs only after energy resource investment decisions have been made; and (2) fixating on the firm’s financial costs and protection of investors, rather than on the broader impacts of each transition for the energy system. The current transition to …