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How Utilities Make Money (virtual public seminar)

All investor-owned utilities must make money for their shareholders while providing cost-effective, safe, and reliable service to their customers. Yet many utility employees do not fully understand how their companies are regulated and what factors impact utility earnings.

How Utilities Make Money is a four-hour virtual seminar (now available to the general public!) that takes an uncomplicated look at the process of generating revenue and profits as a regulated investor-owned utility. Participants attending this live seminar will leave with a general understanding of how this complex process actually works. 

What participants will learn

• The basic revenue and earnings formulas and how they apply to non-regulated companies and to utilities
• What capital investment, sources of capital, and expenses are
• How ROE is determined
• How a regulated company makes money
• What is rate base and rate of return, and how these impact earnings
• What is a utility's cost of capital and how it affects the revenue requirement
• What is a rate case, how often does it happen, and why it's so important for regulated utilities
• How earnings can exceed or fall short of what was authorized for utilities, and how employee actions affect this

Regular price: $495
Earlybird price: $395 (expires two weeks prior to the session)

Participants will receive a PDF file of the interactive participant guide. Class sizes are limited to encourage participation from everyone!