The energy industry is at a historic inflection point, but the hierarchy of needs has shifted. While decarbonization remains our long-term destination, we need to recognize a hard truth: we cannot build a sustainable future on a foundation of unaffordable bills.
We often talk about the “collision” of affordability and sustainability as if they are competing forces on equal footing. But for customers struggling to keep the lights on, the carbon content of an electron is an afterthought. We should solve, or at least mitigate, the affordability crisis before we can realistically ask ratepayers to fund the sustainability revolution.
Download the Guide to learn:
- Moving beyond monthly totals to leverage AMI and socioeconomic metadata to identify who is actually paying the bill and when they are using energy.
- How to use revenue from this AI-driven growth to subsidize and protect customers who need it most.
- Move from speculating about bill impacts to simulating them before a new rate ever goes live.
- Replacing the standard multi-year rate case timeline with agile “Implementation Bridges” that launch affordability-focused rates in months, not years.
