Regulatory Strategy & Alternative Mechanisms
Our frameworks—from decoupling to multi-year rate plans—help stabilize revenues, reduce volatility, and create pathways for investment and customer affordability.
Atrium’s subject matter experts help utilities design regulatory strategies that strengthen financial stability while supporting innovation and affordability. Atrium brings deep experience with multi-year rate plans, decoupling, weather normalization, and other stabilization mechanisms that mitigate volatility and reduce lag between cost incurrence and revenue recovery. Our team develops cost-recovery approaches that enable infrastructure investment without sacrificing customer trust. We also evaluate affordability and low-income program structures, integrating benefit-cost analysis to demonstrate value. Our work is grounded in practicality—we align economic frameworks with real-world implementation to ensure strategies succeed both analytically and operationally. Atrium emphasizes communication and engagement, helping clients articulate why new mechanisms matter and how they will deliver tangible benefits. With this balanced approach, utilities are positioned to modernize their business models, meet clean energy commitments, and maintain customer confidence while stabilizing revenues earnings.
Featured Capabilities
Performance-Based Regulation, Multi-Year, and Formula-Based Rate
We design frameworks that link utility revenues to performance outcomes, promoting efficiency, safety, reliability, and innovation while contributing to earnings stability.
Revenue Stabilization (Decoupling, Weather Normalization, etc.)
Atrium develops stabilization mechanisms that reduce volatility, ensuring utilities recover fixed costs consistently despite unpredictable customer usage or weather.
Advanced Rate Design (time-varying rates, etc.)
We craft modern pricing tools that support demand management, align with policy goals, and enable customer choice through differentiated rate structures with a focus on customer acceptance.
Future of Gas & Combined Utility Planning
We advise on frameworks that integrate gas and electric planning, addressing decarbonization, customer demand shifts, and regulatory expectations for a coordinated future.
Infrastructure Investment & Cost Recovery Mechanisms
Our team structures cost recovery approaches that align investment plans with customer affordability, securing timely and predictable recovery for critical infrastructure investments.
Low-Income Program Design & Affordability Evaluation
Atrium designs and evaluates programs that help manage customer energy burdens, balancing social equity with long-term financial sustainability.
Programs & Initiative Evaluation (Benefit-Cost Analysis)
We evaluate initiatives using rigorous benefit-cost frameworks that quantify customer, utility, and societal impacts, providing clarity on program effectiveness.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communications
Atrium helps utilities develop clear messaging and engagement strategies that build understanding and support for proposed mechanisms and reforms.
Performance-Based Regulation, Multi-Year, and Formula-Based Rate
We design frameworks that link utility revenues to performance outcomes, promoting efficiency, safety, reliability, and innovation while contributing to earnings stability.
Revenue Stabilization (Decoupling, Weather Normalization, etc.)
Atrium develops stabilization mechanisms that reduce volatility, ensuring utilities recover fixed costs consistently despite unpredictable customer usage or weather.
Advanced Rate Design (time-varying rates, etc.)
We craft modern pricing tools that support demand management, align with policy goals, and enable customer choice through differentiated rate structures with a focus on customer acceptance.
Future of Gas & Combined Utility Planning
We advise on frameworks that integrate gas and electric planning, addressing decarbonization, customer demand shifts, and regulatory expectations for a coordinated future.
Infrastructure Investment & Cost Recovery Mechanisms
Our team structures cost recovery approaches that align investment plans with customer affordability, securing timely and predictable recovery for critical infrastructure investments.
Low-Income Program Design & Affordability Evaluation
Atrium designs and evaluates programs that help manage customer energy burdens, balancing social equity with long-term financial sustainability.
Programs & Initiative Evaluation (Benefit-Cost Analysis)
We evaluate initiatives using rigorous benefit-cost frameworks that quantify customer, utility, and societal impacts, providing clarity on program effectiveness.
Stakeholder Engagement & Communications
Atrium helps utilities develop clear messaging and engagement strategies that build understanding and support for proposed mechanisms and reforms.
Let’s Work Together
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